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From: Alexander Kirillov <nevis2us@××××××××.su>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 \w xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7 problem
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 16:18:47
Message-Id: 4476E609.9060508@infoline.su
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 \w xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7 problem by Matthias Langer
1 >>>recently my sister descovered a strange and serious bug with
2 >>>mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 in combination with xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7. After
3 >>>visiting
4 >>>http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=36939781
5 >>>xorg shuts down immediatly direct access to the box via the terminal is
6 >>>impossible. logging in remotley via ssh still works ...
7 >>>
8 >>>can anyone with the above combination verify this ?
9 >>
10 >>Yep. Killed my X too. I have these same versions of xorg and firefox.
11 >>Fortunately I got a kdm login prompt again. The only relevant messages I
12 >>could find in the logs:
13 >>
14 >># cat /var/log/messages
15 >>...
16 >>May 26 01:10:39 baikal kdm[11220]: X server for display :0 terminated
17 >>unexpectedly
18 >>...
19 >>
20 >># cat /var/log/kdm.log
21 >>...
22 >>*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x096128c0 ***
23 >>...
24 >>
25 >>You probably should file a bug.
26 >>Please post to the list if you have any new info on the subject.
27 >
28 >
29 > I've now filed a bug:
30 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134373
31 >
32 > If you are experiencing the same behavour, please post a comment on that
33 > bug including 'emerge --info', use-flag combinations for xorg-x11 and
34 > firefox and relevant log entries.
35
36 I've just tried to open the link above with flash plugin disabled
37 and the page is gone:
38
39 Invalid Friend ID.
40 This user has either cancelled their membership, or their account has
41 been deleted.
42
43 You should probably keep your sister's page intact as a test case.
44
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Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 \w xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7 problem Matthias Langer <mlangc@×××.at>