Activity log for bug #222277

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2008-04-26 02:12:23 kcufdnim bug added bug
2008-04-26 02:12:23 kcufdnim bug added attachment 'Dependencies.txt' (Dependencies.txt)
2008-04-26 02:12:23 kcufdnim bug added attachment 'profiles.ini.txt' (profiles.ini.txt)
2008-04-29 22:20:56 tam title Firefox 3 beta 5 crashes badly (kills x session) on a specific web page in ubuntu 8.04 Firefox 3 beta 5 crashes gdm when loading a specific web page in ubuntu 8.04 with compiz enabled
2008-04-29 23:32:28 tam firefox-3.0: status New Confirmed
2008-04-30 01:21:45 tam bug assigned to linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 (Ubuntu)
2008-04-30 01:22:10 tam bug assigned to xorg (Ubuntu)
2008-04-30 01:22:28 tam xorg: status New Confirmed
2008-04-30 02:05:33 tam description Binary package hint: firefox-3.0 Visiting the following site on 2 consecutive occasions caused Firefox to crash and I was logged out of my x session http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty Environment: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS 32 bit Firefox version: 3 beta 5 Firefox Installed plugins: Adobe flash player ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Sat Apr 26 11:57:38 2008 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 PackageArchitecture: i386 ProcEnviron: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: firefox-3.0 Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686 Binary package hint: firefox-3.0 Visiting the following site on 2 consecutive occasions caused Firefox to crash and I was logged out of my x session http://ubuntuguide.org/ This bug seems to affect nvidia 8xxx series cards and only occurs when nvidia-glx-new drivers are enabled with compiz. A temporary fix is posted which suggested updating the libwfb.so library with a newer one provided from nvidia. The bug is most likely a product of firefox's gecko engine and compositing. This bug will also occur in swiftfox or any derivative of firefox. Environment: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS 32/64 bit Firefox version: 3 b5 Firefox Installed plugins: Adobe flash player ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Sat Apr 26 11:57:38 2008 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 PackageArchitecture: i386 ProcEnviron: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: firefox-3.0 Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686
2008-04-30 02:05:33 tam title Firefox 3 beta 5 crashes gdm when loading a specific web page in ubuntu 8.04 with compiz enabled Firefox 3 b5 crashes xorg when loading ubuntuguide.org in ubuntu 8.04 with compiz enabled
2008-04-30 03:51:25 tam linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24: status New Confirmed
2008-05-04 18:01:51 John Vivirito bug added subscriber Timo Aaltonen
2008-05-06 01:55:06 Bryce Harrington marked as duplicate 212648