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linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17 package

Website crashes xorg!

Bug #57721 reported by Nicolas da Luz Duque
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
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Bug Description

I don't know if it really is xorg that's at fault, so this might need relocating.

My father was browsing the web in search of a new graphic card for his computer, when he clicked this link on google: http://www.infododos.com/actu/view-news-1127078769.html
And Xorg crashed...

This is the link from hell! This bug can and has been reproduced EVERY TIME my father clicks on it.

Xorg crashes, then restarts with the gdm invite.

It crashes with both firefox and epiphany. I don't have time to get a backtrace right now but I will be able to do it monday. I don't really know which processes I should trace or how to launch gdm properly in gdb. It would also be nice to be able to launch epiphany in gdb, but I won't be able to do that in a gnome-terminal because it would crash along with Xorg. Maybe with a --display argument?

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Nicolas da Luz Duque (hot-boy) wrote :

I forgot to mention my father runs with a dapper updated daily. (so it's the new package xserver-xorg-core 1:1.0.2-0ubuntu10.4 (but the bug was already there with version 10.2). My father has a nvidia card.

Guillaume Desmottes hasn't been able to reproduce this bug, and I haven't been able to test it on another machine than my father's.

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Nicolas da Luz Duque (hot-boy) wrote :

Ok I tested it. It crashed my computer too. The site has to be completely loaded. I thought it hadn't crashed, but after a few seconds that was it: goodbye X.

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Simon Law (sfllaw) wrote :

Nicolas,

Are you also using an nVidia video card? What video driver is your
father using? Which one are you using? What happens if you use the
VESA driver?

Thanks for answering my questions.

Changed in xorg:
assignee: nobody → sfllaw
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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jcfp (jcfp) wrote :

Same happens here, Xorg crash when visiting that website with firefox. Crash happens pretty much once loading the page is fully completed; next thing one sees is the graphical login screen.
No problems (crash or other errors) happen with konqueror and opera. The web site seems to function normally with these browsers.

Hardware is an nvidia (nv43) graphics card using nvidia driver (8762), nothing unusual in dmesg or Xorg logs, syslog's only mentioning of the crash is "kdm[5708]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly".

kubuntu 6.06, all updates.

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Nicolas da Luz Duque (hot-boy) wrote :

>Are you also using an nVidia video card? What video driver is your
>father using? Which one are you using? What happens if you use the
>VESA driver?

Both my father and I have nvidia video cards. We're both using the nvidia driver.

I tested it using the nv driver, and the crash doesn't occur. I think this should be forwarded upstream (to nvidia's).

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Simon Law (sfllaw) wrote :

This appears to be a problem with the proprietary binary driver.

Changed in xorg:
importance: Untriaged → Medium
status: Needs Info → Confirmed
Simon Law (sfllaw)
Changed in linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17:
assignee: sfllaw → nobody
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jcfp (jcfp) wrote :

Setting status to fix released since USN 377-1 updates the nvidia driver to 1.0-8776, fixing the reported xorg crash.

Changed in linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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