Firefox crashed randomly and taking X windows sever into console mode.. not responing. After a while using Firefox , it gets unresponsive very well and then a "quick" action caused everything fall apart.

Bug #246942 reported by Podness
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Firefox crashed randomly and taking X windows sever into console mode.. not responding. After a while using Firefox , it gets unresponsive and then a "quick" action (clicking on the browser to minimize it or switching tabs or scrolling down/up)caused everything fall apart.

I don't really understand about the technical terms..

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jul 9 16:44:32 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

Tags: apport-bug
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Podness (classified51a) wrote :
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danbuter (buter1) wrote :

I have had this happen on xubuntu intrepid. I was on Amazon, did a search, and this type of crash occurred.

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: New → Confirmed
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danbuter (buter1) wrote :
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danbuter (buter1) wrote :
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jasonq (jason-quinn) wrote :

I've had this occur at least 4 times over the last month. Twice it lead to the loss of work in progress.

I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 fully updated. It has always occurred with Firefox (last with 3.0.3) when I quickly click on the minimize button (every time however I knew I was making a bad click, e.g., on the edge of the minimize box or making a right click by mistake... that may be important). I don't know if the problem is limited to Firefox though. I use it the most so it could just be a selection effect. I cannot reproduce the crash when X restarts so maybe Firefox has to have been running for a while first?

Here's the relevant line from my /var/log/syslog:
Oct 24 13:48:38 aries gdm[6398]: WARNING: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0

I'm not too experienced debugging issues like this, so if somebody in the know gives a list of things to put here the next time I experience the crash, I can help you debug this.

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