Excessively long headlines make X crash

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

Excessively long "headlines" are displayed in the scroller, but looking at them in the knewsticker menu makes X crash.
I attached an evil XML file I found here:
http://blog.fefe.de/rss.xml

[Ralf Hildebrandt (ralf-hildebrandt)]

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x7e) [0x80c780e]
1: [0xb7f6f420]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 8. Server aborting

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x7e) [0x80c780e]
1: [0xb7f6f420]
2: /usr/bin/X(XkbRemoveResourceClient+0xc1) [0x81912a1]
3: /usr/bin/X [0x8085c12]
4: /usr/bin/X(CloseDownDevices+0x29) [0x8085e79]
5: /usr/bin/X(AbortServer+0x23) [0x81bf5e3]
6: /usr/bin/X(FatalError+0x66) [0x81bfba6]
7: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0xed) [0x80c787d]
8: [0xb7f6f420]

FatalError re-entered, aborting
Caught signal 11. Server aborting

[Ralf Hildebrandt (ralf-hildebrandt)]

Made some more experiments:
X does *NOT* crash with the "nv" driver instead of the proprietary "nvidia" driver :(

Please reassign to package nvidia-glx-new...

I'm using:
nvidia-glx-new 169.12+2.6.24.14-21.48

The crash is 100% reproducible.

[Ralf Hildebrandt (ralf-hildebrandt)]

see my last comment in the bug report...

[bugbot (bugbot)]

Thank you for reporting this issue about a driver from the
linux-restricted-modules package. lrm-2.4.24 was shipped with Ubuntu
8.04 which reached end-of-life for desktop support on May 12th, 2011.

For that reason, this bug report is being closed at this time. I'm
marking it wontfix because what you describe is probably a valid issue,
but there are no plans to work on lrm 2.4.24 bugs further.

The issue may be resolved in a newer version. If not, aside from filing
a new bug report, another angle may be to file it directly with the
driver vendor.