[27281] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.4.52: firefox
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Basch)
Tue Feb 3 18:24:37 2009
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From: Robert Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 18:24:00 -0500
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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Does this happen consistently (reproducibly), e.g. on a particular
URL? There is a report of such a problem possibly occurring with
flash-enabled pages, which we might fix by updating the flash
plugin. I will test this out soon...
Thanks,
Bob
On Feb 3, 2009, at 3:21 PM, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> OLC is aware of at least one other user who experiences this
> problem on multiple cluster machines, even after moving .mozilla
> out of the way and logging in without customizations.
>
> -Jon
>
> On Feb 3, 2009, at 3:09 PM, Martin M Couturier wrote:
>
>> System name: kuzco.mit.edu
>> Type and version: Sun-Blade-1500 9.4.52 (with mkserv)
>> Display type: jfb
>>
>> Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
>> Window manager: metacity
>>
>> What were you trying to do?
>> I was trying to open firefox and navigate webpages on Sun machines.
>>
>>
>> What's wrong:
>> When I first open firefox, I get the following error, but the
>> browser still opens:
>>
>> (Gecko:10108): Pango-WARNING **: error opening config file '/opt/
>> sfw/etc/pango/pangorc': Error 0
>>
>> When I try to navigate, the browser crashes with the following error:
>>
>>
>> (Gecko:10108): Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkvisual-x11.c: line 652:
>> assertion `visual != NULL' failed
>>
>> (Gecko:10108): Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkvisual-x11.c: line 652:
>> assertion `visual != NULL' failed
>> The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
>> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
>> The error was 'BadGC (invalid GC parameter)'.
>> (Details: serial 22438 error_code 13 request_code 60 minor_code 0)
>> (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.)
>>
>>
>> I have tried this both with and without customizations. Moving
>> mozilla does not solve the problem.
>>
>>
>> What should have happened:
>>
>>
>> Please describe any relevant documentation references:
>>
>
