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Firefox 3.5.5-1 package from standard repos installed.
It crashes when I do exactly the following:
1) go to http://chakra-project.org/repo/playground/i686/ (overview of packages in the kdemod-playground repo)
2) press CTRL+F (open search bar at the bottom of the window)
3) type the letter b
4) type the letter i
Firefox instantly segfaults after step 4.
Typing other search terms won't crash it, nor does the search term "bi" on other web pages.
Only in the exact combination stated above. (Well, maybe others, but this is the only one I have come accross so far.)
Can anyone confirm this?
Also, where would be the "proper" place to report a bug like this?
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Can NOT reproduce.
3.5.5 on Arch x86_64
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Can NOT reproduce.
3.5.5 on Arch i686
Matt
"It is very difficult to educate the educated."
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Sorry, doesn't reproduce on my machine (Shiretoku 3.5.5 on Arch x86_64).
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You can install gdb, and post the debug info of your firefox.
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Does not happen to me. Title lied!
I need to find a way out so everyone can find their way out.
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Also, where would be the "proper" place to report a bug like this?
If it was a bug, the bugtracker might be a good start
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Does not happen to me. Title lied!
Well, by "reproducibly", I meant it's reproducible for me... (i.e., not something that happened just once but then never again).
Since none of you can confirm this I did some more experimentation and found that this somehow depends on how I start Firefox... For example, when running it in a normal KDE session, this bug won't occur...
The following is the set-up I typically work with which reproducibly (for me) triggers this Firefox segfault:
I've created a /usr/local/bin/ob containing:
#!/bin/sh
xinit /usr/local/bin/xinitrc_openbox
And a /usr/local/bin/xinitrc_openbox containing:
#!/bin/sh
xterm&
gkrellm&
exec ck-launch-session openbox-session
I've also created the following symbolic link:
/usr/local/bin/ff -> /usr/bin/firefox
I have no graphical login manager like kdm or gdm installed. I always start by logging in to a TTY console. When I want to open a graphical environment, I type:
ob&
Which starts an openbox session with an xterm and a gkrellm (see script above).
To start Firefox I then just type
ff&
in the newly opend xterm.
Now, in a Firefox instance opened like that, the segfault described above happens to me every single time I reproduce the steps outlined in my original post.
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sas wrote:Also, where would be the "proper" place to report a bug like this?
If it was a bug, the bugtracker might be a good start
Well, how do I know whether this is an upstream bug, or one in the Arch packages, or if there's just something wrong with my personal set-up?
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