Bug#571138: iceweasel: random crashes at page/tab close of Iceweasel and iceape

[Mike Hommey]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 01:14:48AM +0530, Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 3.5.8-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> (I have tried following the instructions in the page
> appearing before reportbus reports bugs. But, first, the 
> background)
> 
> Iceape and Iceweasel crashes randomly. I have tried various 
> flash plugins, but it appears that flash player is not the 
> problem. Neither would crash when run under stracce).
> 
> Output of running "iceweasel -sync".
> 
> <beginquote>
> 
> (after a few messages about loading streams)
> 
> Loading stream: http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/TemplateAdRenderer.swf
> 
> 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 1334285 error_code 160 request_code 148 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...
> Trace/breakpoint trap
> <endquote>

<snip>

Please run through the instructions in /usr/share/bug/iceweasel/presubj,
adding the --sync option on the iceweasel command line.

Cheers,

Mike