[27282] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.4.52: firefox
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Tue Feb 3 18:33:29 2009
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
To: Robert Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
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Two consultants were able to reproduce it by logging in to Gmail, and
then navigating away from their Gmail inbox to any other site. We
haven't yet identified any other specific sites that cause it, and we
haven't yet heard back from the original user whether or not they were
using Gmail at the time
-Jon
On Feb 3, 2009, at 6:24 PM, Robert Basch wrote:
> 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:
>>>
>>
>
