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xulrunner-1.9 package

epiphany-gecko crashes when increasing text size

Bug #268978 reported by Levin Fritz on 2008-09-11

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xulrunner-1.9 (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: epiphany-browser

Steps to reproduce:
(1) epiphany http://www.ru.nl/english/general/radboud_university/
(2) Notice that the text is barely readable
(3) Press Ctrl++ or select View > Larger Text
Epiphany prints “Segmentation fault (core dumped)” to the console and crashes.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/epiphany-gecko
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: epiphany-gecko 2.23.91-0ubuntu1
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: epiphany-browser http://www.ru.nl/english/general/radboud_university/
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: epiphany-browser
StacktraceTop:
?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.2/libxul.so
?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.2/libxul.so
?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.2/libxul.so
?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.2/libxul.so
?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.2/libxul.so
Title: epiphany-gecko crashed with SIGSEGV
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-2-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev video

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Levin Fritz (levinfritz) wrote on 2008-09-11:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (4.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (727 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (58.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (809 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (900 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Stacktrace.txt Edit (4.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (9.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2008-09-11: Symbolic stack trace

#2

Stacktrace.txt (retraced) Edit (21.1 KiB, text/plain)

StacktraceTop:nsRuleNode::ComputeBackgroundData (this=0x25490c0, aStartStruct=0x0, aData=@0x7fff9eb9d5e0,
nsRuleNode::WalkRuleTree (this=0x25490c0, aSID=eStyleStruct_Background, aContext=0x240c110,
nsRuleNode::GetBackgroundData (this=0x25490c0, aContext=0x240c110) at nsRuleNode.cpp:1211
nsRuleNode::GetStyleBackground (this=0x25490c0, aContext=0x18, aComputeData=-1631988256)
nsStyleContext::CalcStyleDifference (this=0x240c3f0, aOther=0x240c110)

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2008-09-11: Symbolic threaded stack trace

#3

ThreadStacktrace.txt (retraced) Edit (34.0 KiB, text/plain)

Changed in epiphany-browser:
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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Levin Fritz (levinfritz) wrote on 2008-09-11:

#4

Some additional info:
* Decreasing text size also causes the crash.
* I created a new user account for testing, and could reproduce the crash there.
* Resizing text works fine on other websites.

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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote on 2013-05-13:

#5

This package has been removed from Ubuntu. Closing all related bugs.

Changed in xulrunner-1.9 (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Invalid

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