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From: Matthias Langer <mlangc@×××.at>
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 17:30:22
Message-Id: 1148664254.14926.3.camel@sputnik886.ruz-net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 \w xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7 problem by Alexander Kirillov
1 On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 15:27 +0400, Alexander Kirillov wrote:
2 > >>>recently my sister descovered a strange and serious bug with
3 > >>>mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 in combination with xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7. After
4 > >>>visiting
5 > >>>http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=36939781
6 > >>>xorg shuts down immediatly direct access to the box via the terminal is
7 > >>>impossible. logging in remotley via ssh still works ...
8 > >>>
9 > >>>can anyone with the above combination verify this ?
10 > >>
11 > >>Yep. Killed my X too. I have these same versions of xorg and firefox.
12 > >>Fortunately I got a kdm login prompt again. The only relevant messages I
13 > >>could find in the logs:
14 > >>
15 > >># cat /var/log/messages
16 > >>...
17 > >>May 26 01:10:39 baikal kdm[11220]: X server for display :0 terminated
18 > >>unexpectedly
19 > >>...
20 > >>
21 > >># cat /var/log/kdm.log
22 > >>...
23 > >>*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x096128c0 ***
24 > >>...
25 > >>
26 > >>You probably should file a bug.
27 > >>Please post to the list if you have any new info on the subject.
28 > >
29 > >
30 > > I've now filed a bug:
31 > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134373
32 > >
33 > > If you are experiencing the same behavour, please post a comment on that
34 > > bug including 'emerge --info', use-flag combinations for xorg-x11 and
35 > > firefox and relevant log entries.
36 >
37 > I've just tried to open the link above with flash plugin disabled
38 > and the page is gone:
39 >
40 > Invalid Friend ID.
41 > This user has either cancelled their membership, or their account has
42 > been deleted.
43
44 That's what i feared. With that page gone (this wasn't the page of my
45 sister) it might be nearly impossible to reproduce this bug.
46
47 Matthias
48
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Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 \w xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7 problem Alexander Kirillov <nevis2us@××××××××.su>