Bug#439260: Addinfo - Iceape browser and mailnews closing

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Fri Aug 24 05:31:42 UTC 2007


On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 12:06:22AM -0400, Whit Hansell <skipper44 at comcast.net> wrote:
> It's gotten worse on the browser side.  I've been going to various sites 
> and can't scroll down much from the top of the page before the browser 
> closes totally.  I can open a number of pages but if I try to read down the 
> page of any page even using the scroll bar in stead of the wheel mouse, the 
> browser closes totally w/o warning or error notation.
>
>
> So far on the mailnews part the only problem I've had is trying to open an 
> Earthlink email.  I've so far successfully been able to scroll down emails 
> w. no trouble.  and I've sent emails out and received them ok too.
>
> But the browser is a real problem.  Specifically, I've done a search using 
> Dogpile and when I pick a site and open it up and start to down the page to 
> read it the browser closes.  It has happened to everything I've tried to 
> read after opening it from the page listing.  And these pages don't seem to 
> be graphics active. Yes there are graphics but not the type that are 
> running as in many of the car ads and stuff.  Little movies. None of that.
>
> Hope that helps.  And thanks for your good work.  I really appreciate it.

Please install the iceape-dbg package, then run "iceape -g", type "run"
when you get the gdb prompt, and do what it is necessary for the closing
to occur. Once it occurs, come back to the gdb prompt and type "bt
full".

Please copy/paste the result of this command here.

Thanks

Mike




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