Bug 659

Created attachment 355 [details]
strace startx 2> stracestartx.txt

I figured out how to use strace for this bug.
On my Fedora-box:
failsave-terminal
# telinit 3
# strace startx 2> stracestartx.txt
Opened mozilla, loaded the crashing-page, X crashed...

Created attachment 356 [details]
strace mozilla 2> stracemozilla.txt

This is the strace when logged in in GNOME and calling mozilla from the
terminal.
strace mozilla 2> stracemozilla.txt

Someone will probably have to debug both mozilla and the X server at the
same time for this issue in order to determine the problem cause.  They'll
also need to recompile mozilla in order to try to reproduce.

If someone can reproduce this and debug it, that would help a lot to
expediate finding a solution.  Providing prebuilt rpms of a reproducing
mozilla might also help speed things up.

Hope this helps.

Mine mozilla does not crash with web page from description, but does when searching 
for phrase 'e3-f' in google. With setting of 100 result per page.

http://www.google.com/search?q=e3-f&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Is there anyone investigating this issue, or any change in status of this
issue?

I did some digging and I think it is a 
'non-xft build mozilla'<->X-server<->font-server interaction issue.

Ever since I upgraded my office box to fedora2 (from redhat 9) I 
have been biten by mozilla bring down the X server during a 
google search or when displaying pages with strange characters. 
Yesterday I remember I never had a crash with my home box - 
which runs slackware 10; and of course I view pages or do google
search on either in a similar way. And since upgraded to
fedora 2, both are running Xorg 6.7.0, with the official 
mozilla 1.7.2 build, so the two boxes are version-wise similar -
with one difference - my home box doesn't use font server
but have static font paths. 

So I did a bit of playing around on my office fedora 2 box.
Installed both the fedora 2 xft-enabled mozilla and the official
non-xft build. And yes, I can reproduce the X-server crash with
the non-xft reliably, while the xft-enabled build survives.

Then I modified /etc/X11/xorg.conf to use static font paths instead
of the font server, and the non-xft build doesn't crash the 
x-server anymore. I put the font server fontpath entry back *after*
the static font paths (i.e. static font path + font server),
and the non-xfs build doesn't crash the X-server either.
So I think I am inclined to leave the config like that -
static font paths + font server. This way everything
should just work fine.

Can somebody please remind me, what's the benefit of 
using a font server versus static font paths again? 
(besides having crashes like this, that is :-).

putting unix:7100 before the static font paths in xorg.conf
also crashes the X server; so it seems that the safe option is
to put the static font path before the font server entry.

I can confirm this bug on a ati radeon card on Fedora 2, please see my report in
mozilla bugzilla.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=269753

The workaround of Hin-Tak Leung worked for me as well, thank you very much for
investigating this.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=121403#c24 ← I've made here
report how to reproduce this bug (freedesktop.org was down in that time).

Maybe some developer would be able to investigate it further...

Created attachment 1603 [details]
strace -ff -v -o straceX -p PID_OF_X_PROCESS

I do not know whether it is useful but here is strace of X process when it
crashes.

Created attachment 2016 [details] [review]
A patch

This patch fixes

     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=136450

which has very similar symptoms to this bug.

The patch needs s/calloc/xcalloc/ and s/free/xfree/ .

The Red Hat bug URL should be

   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145546

May someone review this patch and check it in? I'm using patched version of
X.org X11 6.8.2 from Fedora's development tree and X server does not crash
anymore :D 

BTW thanks for your patch! My nightmare is over -- no more lost data :)

official non-xft Mozilla 1.7.6. + xorg 6.8.2 + unix/:7100 at the 
beginning + xfs doesn't crash X any more, with the test page.

(In reply to comment #15)
> official non-xft Mozilla 1.7.6. + xorg 6.8.2 + unix/:7100 at the 
> beginning + xfs doesn't crash X any more, with the test page.

Well, I've just recompiled xorg-x11-6.8.2-13 SRPM from Fedora's development tree
(I've only disabled this patch in SPEC file ->
http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/xorg-x11/xorg-x11-6.8.2-fix-font-crash.patch
) and I was able to crash X server on this page ->
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=106786&action=view :/

Above patch resolves the problem :)
BTW I use Mozilla 1.8b if it makes any differance.

Søren, if this is still good, please commit.

Committed to HEAD.

Thu Aug 11 11:43:32 2005  Søren Sandmann  <sandmann@redhat.com>

	* programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/xaa/xaaTEText.c
	(XAAGlyphBltTEColorExpansion): Make sure we don't
	crash on glyphs with NULL bits. Bug 659.

Created attachment 3325 [details] [review]
use wnck and don't show notifications if another window is fullscreen

(In reply to comment #18)
> Committed to HEAD.

therefore marking as FIXED.