Firefox crashes on some Websites on Kubuntu 8.10 intrepid

[Yabba]

Binary package hint: firefox

First, it's not a crash by Flash. I use Flash 10 successfully on various websites without any crash. Only on some individual websites Firefox crashes reproduceable while calling the URL. Those websitesare most without any plugin. Only HTML and CSS. One of those websites is the today Friday, 28. Nov. 2008 website of the Apple Store at http://store.apple.com/us or http://store.apple.com/de

Calling Firefox from command line I get the following output after firefox's crash:

desktop:~$ firefox
ICEDTEAPLUGIN_DEBUG = (null)
QPixmap: Invalid pixmap parameters
The program 'firefox' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
  (Details: serial 11225 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
Locking assertion failure. Backtrace:
#0 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 [0x7fc02a6859fc]
#1 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0(xcb_xlib_lock+0x17) [0x7fc02a685b77]
#2 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 [0x7fc02cf7a8c0]
#3 /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1(XRenderFreePicture+0x46) [0x7fc02d23da26]
#4 /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 [0x7fc022907cfb]
#5 /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 [0x7fc022908680]
#6 /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QPixmap5derefEv+0x53) [0x7fc0228fdfa3]
#7 /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QPixmapD1Ev+0x24) [0x7fc0228fe2e4]
#8 /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 [0x7fc0229e00bb]
#9 /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 [0x7fc0229d8819]
#10 /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 [0x7fc022907c58]
#11 /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 [0x7fc022908680]
#12 /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QPixmap5derefEv+0x53) [0x7fc0228fdfa3]
#13 /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QPixmapD2Ev+0x24) [0x7fc0228fe334]
#14 /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 [0x7fc022903193]
#15 /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 [0x7fc02290379f]
#16 /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 [0x7fc022902e85]
#17 /lib/libc.so.6(exit+0x9d) [0x7fc03163e66d]
#18 /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 [0x7fc02c2cbc81]
#19 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(_XError+0xf4) [0x7fc02cf73784]

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Paket: firefox
Zustand: Installiert
Automatisch installiert: nein
Version: 3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
Priorität: optional
Bereich: web
Verwalter: Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
Unkomprimierte Größe: 127k
Hängt ab von: firefox-3.0, firefox-3.0-branding
Bereitgestellt von: abrowser
Beschreibung: meta package for the popular mozilla web browser
 Firefox 3 is the next major release of the standalone Mozilla browser; it is
 written in the XUL language and designed to be lightweight and cross-platform.

 This is a meta package that will point to the latest firefox package in
 ubuntu. Don't remove this if you want to receive automatic major version
 upgrades for this package in future.
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Sorry, I forgot to mention:
I use a 64Bit Kernel amd64.

[Yabba (yabba)]

Also crashes on http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracFaq by scrolling down.

[Neil Stone (nstone)]

I get this on facebook with random facilities.. like 'suggest friends'

Linux Athlon64 2.6.27-9-generic #1 SMP Thu Nov 20 22:15:32 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Tom-cat (tpaoletti)]

I got plenty of crashes with the same console output reported by Yabba (even in the middle of filing this bug!!!) and these are my observations:

- It's not related to Flash. Happens while editing Wikis, filing bugs through another Bugzilla interface and browsing plain HTML websites.

- Seems related to draw operations on scrollbars (or related elements)

- So far it has been reported only on 64-bit kernels
  Mine is:
  Linux Core2Duo 2.6.27-9-generic #1 SMP Thu Nov 20 22:15:32 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I've attached the console output at the time of failure, and a backtrace taken with gdb. Hope it's helpful, because this issue is driving me crazy. :-)

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Firefox version? Thanks in advance.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please let us know if the upgrade resolved your issue? Thanks!

[Yabba (yabba)]

Well, Kubuntu 8.10 was so buggy that I made the move to 9.04 - it couldn't be worst - and I am happier. I recommend everyone with Kubuntu 8.10 and the use of KDE4 to upgrade. 9.04 was much more stable. Kubuntu 8.10 is the worst release of Kubuntu they ever made! :/
The cause of this error was in the incompatibility of Gnome and KDE libraries which are used in a kind of mix for Firefox.

[Victor S (zeron00)]

It's been 4 years since this bug was reported. Yet I experience this problem with certain websites.
I'm using Kubuntu 12.10 on Intel Core i5 64-bit system. I have the latest version of firefox.