firefox causing gnome to exit

[stevebj]

Binary package hint: firefox

With a couple of open tabs in firefox... Something would cause it to exit gnome. I looked through /var/log/messages and the last thing indicated for gdm was 'exiting.' I didn't observe any noticable pattern that would cause gdm to exit. Firefox definitely seemed to be the app causing the behavior.

I switched to kde and everything has been stable.

[Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf) (hmontoliu)]

Thank you stevebj for your report,

Please indicate which version of ubuntu are you using, and which version of firefox.

Can you try to provide a step by step way to reproduce this behavior?

Please look at /var/crash to see if there is a crash report created when this problem happened. If so, please upload it.

Thanks in advance.

[stevebj (stevebj-ee)]

$ /usr/bin/firefox --version
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2007 mozilla.org

$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 i686
GNU/Linux

# dpkg -l | grep ubuntu-desktop
ii kubuntu-desktop 1.32ubuntu1
    Kubuntu desktop system
ii ubuntu-desktop 1.43
          The Ubuntu desktop system

On 6/25/07, Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf) <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Thank you stevebj for your report,
>
> Please indicate which version of ubuntu are you using, and which version
> of firefox.
>
> Can you try to provide a step by step way to reproduce this behavior?
>
> Please look at /var/crash to see if there is a crash report created when
> this problem happened. If so, please upload it.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Medium
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Mozilla Bugs
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> ** Tags added: mt-needreport mt-needtestcase
>
> --
> firefox causing gnome to exit
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/122122
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

--
Stephen B. Johnson
Electrical Engineer
<email address hidden>

"Nothing...will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first
overcome." -- Dr. Samuel Johnson

[stevebj (stevebj-ee)]

The behavior appeared almost like a sigkill sent to gdm...then gdm
respawning. (this is what it appeared as)

There's nothing in /var/crash

The actions that seemed to correlate with the behavior seemed to be when
moving between firefox tabs. I wish there was a ringbuf that had all of the
last actions captured...

The behavior started occurring within the last month. No problems were
observed in the previous 3-4 months.

On 6/25/07, Stephen Johnson <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> $ /usr/bin/firefox --version
> Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2007 mozilla.org
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux ubuntu 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 i686
> GNU/Linux
>
> # dpkg -l | grep ubuntu-desktop
> ii kubuntu-desktop 1.32ubuntu1
> Kubuntu desktop system
> ii ubuntu-desktop 1.43
> The Ubuntu desktop system
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 6/25/07, Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf) <email address hidden> wrote:
> >
> > Thank you stevebj for your report,
> >
> > Please indicate which version of ubuntu are you using, and which version
> > of firefox.
> >
> > Can you try to provide a step by step way to reproduce this behavior?
> >
> > Please look at /var/crash to see if there is a crash report created when
> >
> > this problem happened. If so, please upload it.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> > ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
> > Importance: Undecided => Medium
> > Assignee: (unassigned) => Mozilla Bugs
> > Status: New => Incomplete
> >
> > ** Tags added: mt-needreport mt-needtestcase
> >
> > --
> > firefox causing gnome to exit
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/122122
> > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> > of the bug.
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Stephen B. Johnson
> Electrical Engineer
> <email address hidden>
>
> "Nothing...will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be
> first overcome." -- Dr. Samuel Johnson

--
Stephen B. Johnson
Electrical Engineer
<email address hidden>

"Nothing...will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first
overcome." -- Dr. Samuel Johnson

[Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf) (hmontoliu)]

Thank you for the bug report however this report lacks information we need to investigate it further. For this reason, we are now going to close the bug report - please feel free to reopen when you have more information at hand.

Further information can be found at [1].

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs