firefox crashed with signal 5 in _XError()

[vanDrunen]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

When I clicked on the "previous cartoon" button on dilbert.com, Firefox crashed.
Only totem was running in the background playing an MP3 stream, no other applications were opened.
One tab had a HTTPS connection to a webmail client, no plugins (like flash) have been used since launching the browser.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Aug 13 01:32:25 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/firefox
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.2+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/firefox
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-5.24-generic
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
 _XError () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
 _XReply () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
 XSync () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
Title: firefox crashed with signal 5 in _XError()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-5-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin mythtv plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:gdk_x_error (display=<value optimized out>,
_XError (dpy=0x7f795bfac000, rep=0x7f7940b6bdc0)
process_responses (dpy=0x7f795bfac000,
_XReply (dpy=0x7f795bfac000, rep=0x7fff82bc7ef0,
XSync (dpy=0x7f795bfac000, discard=0)

[Tryfan (piotr-majca)]

?

[Martin Olsson (mnemo)]

I never had non-plugin Firefox crashes in Jaunty but I've hit this one at least 6-7 times now in karmic.

[regardtv (regardt)]

This seems to be related to totem attempting to play streams specifically.

[vanDrunen (edwin-vandrunen)]

I have had problems with totem-plugin crashing when playing streams in firefox, but this problem has nothing to do with totem playing in the background as a separate process I think.

This crash occurs often (at least 2-3 times per day) when clicking on a link that opens a new tab, when closing a tab and when clicking a link that triggers a page reload on the same tab.

[hardtoneselector (info-franken-reggae)]

got the same error but totem was not used at all lately,...
it happend to me after several hours of screensaver-sleep and the attempt to report another bug,...
there was some other tabs with static content and one with google maps opend,... skype&pidgin also worked in the background

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 421438, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[dino99 (9d9)]

This version is outdated and no more supported