Bug#561859: Iceweasel crashes randomly when a tab is closed

[Alberto Quattrini Li]

2009/12/20 Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org>

> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:15:51PM +0100, Alberto Quattrini Li wrote:
> > 2009/12/20 Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org>
> >
> > > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 08:14:34PM +0100, Alberto Quattrini Li wrote:
> > > > Package: iceweasel
> > > > Version: 3.5.6-1
> > > >
> > > > When I close a tab, either clicking on 'x' icon or pressing the
> > > combination
> > > > 'ctrl+w', iceweasel sometime crashes.
> > > >
> > > > Launching it by konsole, I got:
> > > >
> > > > The following line is printed repeatedly, while iceweasel is running:
> > > > (firefox-bin:20654): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead
> > > >
> > > > This output comes when iceweasel crashes:
> > > > Gdk-ERROR **: The program 'firefox-bin' received an X Window System
> > > error.
> > > > This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> > > > The error was 'RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter)'.
> > > >   (Details: serial 997131 error_code 168 request_code 151 minor_code
> 7)
> > > >   (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported
> asynchronously;
> > > >    that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
> > > >    To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
> > > >    option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
> > > >    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error()
> > > function.)
> > > > aborting...
> > > > [1]+  Trace/breakpoint trap   iceweasel
> > > > Trace/breakpoint trap
> > > >
> > > > I suggest you to fix this problem.
> > > >
> > > > I am using Debian GNU/Linux Unstable, kernel 2.6.31-1-amd64 and libc6
> > > > 2.10.2-2. All packages are updated to the most recent version
> available
> > > in
> > > > the repository.
> > >
> > > What version of libcairo2 are you using ?
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> >
> >
> > I'm using the 1.9.4-1 version of libcairo2
>
> Can you verify that downgrading to 1.8.8-2 makes iceweasel work better ?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mike
>

Downgrading to 1.8.8-2, the warning message is not printed more.
Also iceweasel seems to not crash now. So this solution would seem to work.
If it happens again (crash), even with 1.8.8-2 libcairo2, I report it again.

Thanks!
Cheers,

Alberto
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