firefox crash when loading page

[axel c.]

firefox crashes when loading the url pasted above.

I'm using firefox 1.0.6-1ubuntu13

Output of firefox --sync:

 % firefox --sync http://people.redhat.com/alexl/files/offscreen3.html
The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
  (Details: serial 121 error_code 8 request_code 146 minor_code 3)
  (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.)

http://people.redhat.com/alexl/files/offscreen3.html: http://people.redhat.com/alexl/files/offscreen3.html

[axel c. (axel-banzais)]

Created an attachment (id=4404)
strace of firefox up to crash

[Ian Jackson (ijackson)]

This works fine for me.

On the first run it displays the jigsaw piece `missing plugin' icon. If I click
that and go through the motions of installing Flash, it then displays the
animation which looks like a Cairo UI demo. On the second run it displays the
animation immediately. There is no crash.

I think this bug is probably caused by an extension, plugin or corrupted
profile. Could you please try it with a fresh profile (move .mozilla aside) and
no extensions, and then reopen the bug (or just comment) if you can reproduce it
then.

[axel c. (axel-banzais)]

Ok, it's the old problem with the flash plugin, i made the page not crash by
putting export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 at the beginning of /usr/bin/firefox.

Thanks

[Ian Jackson (ijackson)]

You shouldn't need to set any weird environment variables, obviously. I'm
afraid I don't know what `old problem' you're referring to. Something before I
took over firefox, no doubt. Would you care to fill me in ? Maybe emailing me
directly would be best, or you could catch me on #ubuntu-devel.

Thanks.

[axel c. (axel-banzais)]

The problem seems to be related with Xorg compositing extension and the firefox
flash plugin. There used to be an ubuntu (hoary) bug open about this issue but I
can't seem to find it anymore using the search tool, sorry.

This seems to happen only when you enable compositing in xorg.conf...

Some background on the topic:

http://blog.hulboj.org/archive/2005_09_01_mhulboj_archive.html (grep for 'Xorg
X11 + Composite module + Firefox flashplugin')
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Xorg_X11_and_Transparency (grep for 'Mozilla
(Firefox) crash Issue with Flash')
http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8175&sid=ee4200f99ec2df26d8359280880e612d

[Ian Jackson (ijackson)]

Thanks. I've also had a useful IRC conversation with Daniel Silverstone about
this. I will see what I can do about it.

[Thomas Hood (jdthood)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> firefox crashes when loading the url pasted above.
>
> I'm using firefox 1.0.6-1ubuntu13
>
> Output of firefox --sync:
>
> % firefox --sync http://people.redhat.com/alexl/files/offscreen3.html
> The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
> (Details: serial 121 error_code 8 request_code 146 minor_code 3)
> (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.)

I get exactly the same error message with version 1.0.7-0ubuntu20 loading many
different corporate web pages.

Running firefox in gdb and loading the URL given above I get:

(gdb) continue
Continuing.

Program received signal SIG33, Real-time event 33.
[Switching to Thread -1272378448 (LWP 7935)]
0xffffe410 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0xffffe410 in ?? ()
#1 0xb429037c in ?? ()
#2 0x00000005 in ?? ()
#3 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#4 0xb7e42f0c in pthread_cond_timedwait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
   from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
#5 0xb7e7d727 in PR_Lock () from /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/libnspr4.so
#6 0xb7e7da76 in PR_WaitCondVar () from /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/libnspr4.so
#7 0xb71dd26d in NSGetModule ()
   from /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/components/libnecko.so
#8 0xb71dda2f in NSGetModule ()
   from /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/components/libnecko.so
#9 0xb7e82c85 in PR_Select () from /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/libnspr4.so
#10 0xb7e40361 in start_thread () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
#11 0xb76bcbde in clone () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6

Running firefox in gdb and loading www.tiscali.nl or www.ford.com I get:

(gdb) continue
Continuing.
[New Thread -1264194640 (LWP 8128)]
[Thread -1264194640 (LWP 8128) exited]

Program exited with code 01.
(gdb)

[Thomas Hood (jdthood)]

I should mention that disabling JavaScript cures the problem in most cases.

Also significant: the problem afflicts mozilla and galeon too. If I load
http://people.redhat.com/alexl/files/offscreen3.html in galeon then the
message is:

$ galeon
plugin_get_value 1
plugin_get_value 2
The program 'galeon' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
  (Details: serial 121 error_code 8 request_code 146 minor_code 3)
  (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.)

Again, turning off JavaScript helps.

[Thomas Hood (jdthood)]

This bug makes firefox hardly usable on affected systems.
I have been forced to switch to opera.

[Thomas Hood (jdthood)]

Purging flashplugin-nonfree and restarting firefox solved the problem for me.

[Thomas Hood (jdthood)]

Created an attachment (id=4763)
jdthood's xdpyinfo output

[Thomas Hood (jdthood)]

Withflashplugin-nonfree installed and JavaScript enabled, I find
that firefox doesn't terminate if I set XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1
in the environment. I'll run like this for a while and report
back here.

[Ian Jackson (ijackson)]

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 14911.