Cryptic numbers emitted to .xsession-errors when printing from Firefox 3

[era]

Binary package hint: firefox

Here's the tail of my .xsession-errors after printing five web pages:

** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
612.000000 792.000000
48960 63360
612.000000 792.000000
48960 63360
612.000000 792.000000
48960 63360
612.000000 792.000000
48960 63360
612.000000 792.000000
48960 63360

(The "GetValue variable" spew is also from Firefox, but that's an old problem, which I reported in bug #162976.)

The numbers look roughly like the dimensions of the page in different units? Anyway, this information is hardly useful to normal users, and should not be emitted by default.

Hardy installed from the 2008-03-20 beta live CD, Firefox 3.0 beta 5

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 09:40:35AM -0000, era wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: firefox
>
> Here's the tail of my .xsession-errors after printing five web pages:
>
> ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
> ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
> ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
> 612.000000 792.000000
> 48960 63360
> 612.000000 792.000000
> 48960 63360
> 612.000000 792.000000
> 48960 63360
> 612.000000 792.000000
> 48960 63360
> 612.000000 792.000000
> 48960 63360

most likely an extension/plugin outputting this

If you know more, let us know and reopen ...

 status invalid

Thanks,

 - Alexander

[era (era)]

On Mon, 12 May 2008 21:59:36 -0000, "Alexander Sack" <email address hidden>
said:
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 09:40:35AM -0000, era wrote:
> > Public bug reported:
> >
> > Binary package hint: firefox
> >
> > Here's the tail of my .xsession-errors after printing five web
> > pages:
> >
> > ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
> > ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
> > ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
> > 612.000000 792.000000
> > 48960 63360
> > 612.000000 792.000000
> > 48960 63360
> > 612.000000 792.000000
> > 48960 63360
> > 612.000000 792.000000
> > 48960 63360
> > 612.000000 792.000000
> > 48960 63360
>
> most likely an extension/plugin outputting this

This is on basically a fresh Hardy install with no extensions or
plugins. The printer back-end is Samba, could that be significant? It
doesn't print anything like this when printing from other applications,
though.

/* era */

--
If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:56:16AM -0000, era wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2008 21:59:36 -0000, "Alexander Sack" <email address hidden>
> said:
> > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 09:40:35AM -0000, era wrote:
> > > Public bug reported:
> > >
> > > Binary package hint: firefox
> > >
> > > Here's the tail of my .xsession-errors after printing five web
> > > pages:
> > >
> > > ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
> > > ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
> > > ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
> > > 612.000000 792.000000
> > > 48960 63360
> > > 612.000000 792.000000
> > > 48960 63360
> > > 612.000000 792.000000
> > > 48960 63360
> > > 612.000000 792.000000
> > > 48960 63360
> > > 612.000000 792.000000
> > > 48960 63360
> >
> > most likely an extension/plugin outputting this
>
> This is on basically a fresh Hardy install with no extensions or
> plugins. The printer back-end is Samba, could that be significant? It
> doesn't print anything like this when printing from other applications,
> though.
>

Do you see those if you start firefox from the terminal as well? Maybe
this happens only on some sites?

 - Alexander

[era (era)]

It turns out that -ProfileManager or -safe-mode would require me to quit my current Firefox, but hopefully, the following repro steps are good enough for you.

era@hardy$ firefox -u nst -ProfileManager
612.000000 792.000000
48960 63360

Inside the ProfileManager, I created a new empty profile "nst" and started a new Firefox with that profile. It should have no extensions or plug-ins as it's a pristine new profile; isn't that correct? Then I printed a hardcopy of the start page, http://start.ubuntu.com/8.04/

[era (era)]

It's not very informative, but here is a screen shot of the result, with a terminal window in front of Firefox (where I also ended up installing a tool for grabbing a screen shot before grabbing any screen shot, which crashed, duh ...)

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

is this still an issue?

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

 We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!