[karmic][apport] firefox crashed with signal 5 in gdk_pixmap_foreign_new_for_screen() upon closing Adobe Reader 8 tab

[Tristan Schmelcher]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

I occasionally see this crash bug when closing tabs in Firefox 3.5 that contain Adobe Reader 8 documents. If I restart Firefox, restore the session, and close the tab again, then the crash happens again.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
$ apt-cache policy adobereader-enu
adobereader-enu:
  Installed: 8.1.4
  Candidate: 8.1.4
  Version table:
 *** 8.1.4 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
$ apt-cache policy firefox-3.5
firefox-3.5:
  Installed: 3.5.2+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 3.5.2+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 3.5.2+nobinonly-0ubuntu2 0
        400 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.5.2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/universe Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/universe Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/universe Packages
     3.5~b4~hg20090330r24021+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
$

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
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:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
StacktraceTop:
 gdk_pixmap_foreign_new_for_screen ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libbonoboui-2.so.0
 _XError () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
 _XReply () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
Title: firefox crashed with signal 5 in gdk_pixmap_foreign_new_for_screen()
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse kvm lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev pulse-rt sambashare scanner video

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:gdk_pixmap_foreign_new_for_screen ()
?? () from /usr/lib/libbonoboui-2.so.0
_XError () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
?? () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
_XReply () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. It seems that you are using an old version of Adobe Reader. Could you please try installing acroread from the partner repo and let us know if you have the same problems?

[Tristan Schmelcher (tschmelcher)]

Yes, same behaviour with latest acroread:

$ apt-cache policy acroread
acroread:
  Installed: 9.1.3-1jaunty1
  Candidate: 9.1.3-1jaunty1
  Version table:
 *** 9.1.3-1jaunty1 0
        500 http://archive.canonical.com jaunty/partner Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     9.1.0-7jaunty2 0
        400 http://archive.canonical.com karmic/partner Packages
$

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for the update. Are you on Jaunty or Karmic? According to the report it seems like you are on Jaunty, but you keep mentioning and seem to install stuff from Karmic.

[Tristan Schmelcher (tschmelcher)]

Technically I'm on Jaunty, but I have the Karmic repos enabled too and I have a bunch of packages installed from there for testing. I am using apt_preferences(5) to keep the rest of the system from updating to Karmic. FF 3.5 is installed from Karmic, hence I put [Karmic] in the bug title. IIRC, the bug occurred with the Jaunty version too though. See below for details.

$ cat /etc/apt/preferences
# Set Karmic packages to priority 400. Normally installed packages will have
# priority of 100 and Jaunty packages will have priority of 500, so if the
# installed package is from Jaunty then it will have priority 500 and will not
# update, and if it is not because I forcibly installed it from karmic then
# it will have priority 100 and will update with new Karmic versions.
Package: *
Pin: release a=karmic
Pin-Priority: 400
$ apt-show-versions | grep karmic
apt-show-versions/karmic uptodate 0.16
devscripts/karmic *manually* upgradeable from 2.10.48ubuntu1~jaunty1 to 2.10.48ubuntu2
firefox/karmic uptodate 3.5.2+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
firefox-3.5/karmic uptodate 3.5.2+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
firefox-3.5-branding/karmic uptodate 3.5.2+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
firefox-3.5-dbgsym/karmic uptodate 3.5.2+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
firefox-3.5-gnome-support/karmic uptodate 3.5.2+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
firefox-3.5-gnome-support-dbgsym/karmic uptodate 3.5.2+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
gcc-4.4-base/karmic uptodate 4.4.1-3ubuntu3
gtk2-engines-pixbuf/karmic uptodate 2.17.9-0ubuntu1
libass3/karmic uptodate 0.9.6-1
libboost-date-time1.38.0/karmic uptodate 1.38.0-6ubuntu4
libboost-filesystem1.38.0/karmic uptodate 1.38.0-6ubuntu4
libboost-program-options1.38.0/karmic uptodate 1.38.0-6ubuntu4
libboost-regex1.38.0/karmic uptodate 1.38.0-6ubuntu4
libboost-system1.38.0/karmic uptodate 1.38.0-6ubuntu4
libboost-thread1.38.0/karmic uptodate 1.38.0-6ubuntu4
libexempi3/karmic uptodate 2.1.1-1
libgail-common/karmic uptodate 2.17.9-0ubuntu1
libgail18/karmic uptodate 2.17.9-0ubuntu1
libgcc1/karmic uptodate 1:4.4.1-3ubuntu3
libgcrypt11/karmic uptodate 1.4.4-2ubuntu2
libglew1.5/karmic uptodate 1.5.1-4ubuntu1
libglib2.0-0/karmic upgradeable from 2.21.5-0ubuntu1 to 2.21.5-0ubuntu2
libglib2.0-dev/karmic upgradeable from 2.21.5-0ubuntu1 to 2.21.5-0ubuntu2
libglibmm-2.4-1c2a/karmic upgradeable from 2.21.3-0ubuntu1 to 2.21.4.1-0ubuntu1
libgnome-desktop-2-11/karmic uptodate 1:2.27.91-0ubuntu1
libgnutls26/karmic uptodate 2.8.3-2
libgpg-error0/karmic uptodate 1.6-1ubuntu1
libgssapi-krb5-2/karmic uptodate 1.7dfsg~beta3-1
libgtk2.0-0/karmic uptodate 2.17.9-0ubuntu1
libgtk2.0-dev/karmic uptodate 2.17.9-0ubuntu1
libhunspell-1.2-0/karmic uptodate 1.2.8-4ubuntu1
libicu40/karmic uptodate 4.0.1-2
libk5crypto3/karmic uptodate 1.7dfsg~beta3-1
libkrb5-3/karmic uptodate 1.7dfsg~beta3-1
libkrb5support0/karmic uptodate 1.7dfsg~beta3-1
liboil0.3/karmic uptodate 0.3.16-1ubuntu1
libprotobuf3/karmic *manually* upgradeable from 2.0.3-2.2ubuntu1~jaunty1 to 2.0.3-2.2ubuntu1
libqt4-assistant/karmic uptodate 4.5.2-0ubuntu4
libqt4-core/karmic uptodate 4.5.2-0ubuntu4
libqt4-dbus/karmic uptodate 4.5.2-0ubuntu4
libqt4-designer/karmic uptodate 4.5.2-0ubuntu4
libqt4-gui/karmic uptodate 4.5.2-0ubuntu...

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Support for both Jaunty and Karmic has ended. If this is still occurring on Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" please file a new bug, preferably also including the results of testing on Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" alpha 2.