Firefox random crashes in Edgy

Bug #68605 reported by SteveCoast
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox

Upgraded to edgy. FF crashes on random pages (alamo.com is one) with this:

** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)

** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)

** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)

** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)

** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)

** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)

** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)

** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)

** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)

** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)

The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
  (Details: serial 118 error_code 8 request_code 144 minor_code 3)
  (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.)

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SteveCoast (steve-asklater) wrote :

I've tried to get gdb to spit out a trace but it complains that /usr/bin/firefox isn't a binary (its a script). So I tried it with /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin but now it complains about not finding libraries and I'm at the end of my gdb knowledge

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SteveCoast (steve-asklater) wrote :

It's Flash. I removed

.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

and it works. I tried installing flashplugin-nonfree but it doesn't show up.

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Bart Martens (bartm) wrote :

No crash on Debian viewing alamo.com with these packages installed:

firefox 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-1
flashplugin-nonfree 9.0.21.55.1

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John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote :

Bart could that be because its not a debian bug but a Ubuntu one and since ubuntu doesnt use flash 9 and it uses firefox 2 that it would be hard for you using those packages to reproduce this.

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SteveCoast (steve-asklater) wrote :

oops, accidentally clicked 'also needs reporting here'. sorry.

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Manuel López-Ibáñez (manuellopezibanez) wrote :

A workaround is to open /etc/X11/xorg.conf and replace the line:
 DefaultDepth 16
by:
 DefaultDepth 24

then, reboot and try firefox again.

Thanks.

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