[Debian-eeepc-devel] iceweasel crashes with a segmentation fault

Fábio Roberto Teodoro fr.teodoro at gmail.com
Mon Sep 29 23:41:36 UTC 2008


Axel Beckert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 07:06:15PM -0300, F?bio Roberto Teodoro wrote:
>   
>> In my eeepc 701 iceweasel crashes with a segmentation fault. Someone 
>> else have this same problem? How can I help to solve this? Could it be 
>> because I'm not using a swap file or partition?
>>     
>
> Do you have pango-graphite installed? This libary causes a lot of
> crashes in Gecko based programs like e.g. Iceweasel, Conkeror,
> Kazehakase or Liferea. See
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=498258#27 ff. and
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476089 for details.
>
> Just had this issue very recently (not on the EeePC though :-) and
> deinstalling pango-graphite worked like a charm. :-)
>
> 		Regards, Axel
>   

I don't have pango-graphite installed, unfortunately. And forgot to say: 
the crash occurs at a random time after iceweasel is initialized and
always cause a spike in cpu usage for the iceweasel processes just 
before the crash.

Thanks
for the help



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