When going to ubuntuguide.org with epiphany the desktop crashes

[Paul Novotny]

Binary package hint: epiphany-browser

This is crazy. When I open http://ubuntuguide.org with Epiphany (epiphany-browser 2.22.1.1-0ubuntu1), the desktop crashes and I am brought back to the login screen. This occurs with the latest Hardy Heron packages.

This doesn't occur in Firefox.

[xtknight (xt-knight)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

This sounds like an interaction between your video driver and epiphany. That page is quite large, so to be specific, maybe an allocation of memory is failing.

It would be helpful if you ran epiphany in the terminal like so:

$ epiphany-browser > ~/Desktop/epiphdbg 2>&1

This will help us track down the problem. Expect the same crash, but when you login again you should have a file on your desktop called epiphdbg. Please attach this.

Could you provide details on what video driver you are using?

[xtknight (xt-knight)]

This bug report will be reopened when we have a log to more reliably track it down.

[Alex Ruddick (alexrudd0)]

I installed the same version and did not experience a crash.

Can you please check out the instructions at the link below and try to provide debugging information? A crash is nearly impossible to fix unless the developers have some information on what caused it.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash

[Paul Novotny (paul-novotny)]

> $ epiphany-browser > ~/Desktop/epiphdbg 2>&1

I ran this command and the only thing in the file is:

** (epiphany-browser:6918): DEBUG: LoginManager tapped

I am using the latest nVidia driver from Envy (1:169.12
+2.6.24.500-500.16~envy).

[manny (estelar57)]

same bug here with epiphany

firefox is normal

got the ubuntu provided nvidia drivers

serious bug

[Nick B. (futurepilot)]

This might be related to Bug#212648
A very similar error shows up in the messages log
Apr 10 02:57:45 HardyHeron-laptop kernel: [ 82.078226] Xorg[5499]: segfault at 0000ff08 eip b6f00ba0 esp bfa57030 error 4

Here is the contents of epiphdbg

** (epiphany-browser:9454): DEBUG: LoginManager tapped
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x816b470: NP_GetMIMEDescription
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x816b470: NP_GetMIMEDescription return
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x816b470: NP_GetValue
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x816b470: NP_GetValue: returning plugin name.
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x816b470: NP_GetValue return
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x816b470: NP_GetValue
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x816b470: NP_GetValue: returning plugin description.
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x816b470: NP_GetValue return

[Nick B. (futurepilot)]

I forgot to mention I'm using the 169.12 Nvidia driver from the repositories.

[Jouni Mettala (jouni-mettala)]

Is this duplicate of Bug #214468

[Nick B. (futurepilot)]

I don't think so. Epiphany is not the only thing crashing. It causes the entire Xserver to crash.

[xtknight (xt-knight)]

I can not reproduce this on Hardy amd64 2.6.24-15-generic. NVIDIA 169.12+2.6.24.12-15.33 from the repositories.

Can you guys post your dmesg when this occurs?

[Nick B. (futurepilot)]

:~$ dmesg | tail
[ 86.949665] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 121.437634] Xorg[5521]: segfault at 000000ff eip 081b1586 esp bffc4fd4 error 4
[ 129.678025] CPU0 attaching NULL sched-domain.
[ 129.678031] CPU1 attaching NULL sched-domain.
[ 129.709198] CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
[ 129.709203] domain 0: span 03
[ 129.709205] groups: 01 02
[ 129.709208] CPU1 attaching sched-domain:
[ 129.709210] domain 0: span 03
[ 129.709212] groups: 02 01

[xtknight (xt-knight)]

Please follow the procedures here and attempt to get a backtrace of Xorg when this occurs.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Backtracing

[Nick B. (futurepilot)]

For some reason I was not able to obtain a backtrace. Every time I attempted to attach gdb to Xorg it froze. I finally resorted to installing the Nvidia Beta driver 173.08 and I was not able to reproduce this crash. So I don't think this bug is in Epiphany.

[Nick B. (futurepilot)]

Actually I was able to get a backtrace from a core file.

[akoblentz (akoblentz)]

For me, this problem occurs in firefox and epiphany. I'm running the amd64 distribution on my intel core2duo. I installed epiphany after firefox did this reliably 8 times in a row. After I figured out that going to ubuntu guide was causing the problem in firefox, I installed epiphany and can still reliably reproduce the crash. I have an Nvidia 8800GTS, since that seems to be the unifying theme, and I'm running with the drivers that were automatically chosen for me when I accepted the restricted drivers dialog.

[Nick B. (futurepilot)]

This definitely seems to be a duplicate of bug #212648

[[e-mail] (bekirserifoglu)]

I have the same problem with firefox 3 beta 5. When i try to go to the page, x server restarts.

[joshlukas (joshlukas)]

Have the same problem since yesterday. Here's my log of Firefox 3 beta 5:

** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
firefox: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0.

Running Ubuntu Hardy final x86-64
nVidia driver 169.12 with a GeForce 8600 GT
Compiz enabled (causes crashes with compiz disabled either)
X2 5000+ BE
MSI K9A+ Plat.
6 GB RAM (2x MDT DDR2 800 á 1GB modules, 2x OCZ Titanium DDR2 800 á 2GB module)

Will try the Beta driver from nVidia.