Comment 141 for bug 226470

Created an attachment (id=317518)
GDB log of window unexpectedly destroyed errors

Ok, here you go, finally after more than a year of encountering this problem is a set of stack traces. This is a "current" firefox (CVS compiled 29 Mar 08 / version 3.0pre). Firefox itself, gdk+, glib and libc are compiled with debug symbols (-g2).

The firefox session has been running 3 days (when the system was rebooted). It was a restart of a previous long running session so it currently has 53 windows and 445 tabs open.

The problem is gmail is completely dysfunctional! The symptoms first appeared as an old (working) gmail window could not compose a message. One could enter the To: line and the Subject: line but the window would fail to echo text typed into the main body message. One could discard the partial message and start a new message and it exhibited the same problem. One could close the old gmail window and attempt to reopen a new gmail window and that would produce the standard "GdkWindow ... unexpectedly destroyed" messages *consistantly*. There are 14 GdkWindow warnings followed by 3 gdk_x11_visual_get_xvisual warnings. I presume these are due to the initial Gmail Javascript setup code.

It should be noted that a gmail "window" is displayed, with a title "Gmail - Inbox(4) - <email address hidden> - Mozilla Firefox" but no text is displayed within the window.

The debugger was attached to firefox, some breakpoints were set and deleted when they were determined to be too "chatty". The last ~18 backtraces involved the g_log messages resulting from a fresh gmail window restart.

I will attempt to keep this firefox/gdb session open in the hope that someone who understands widget/src/gtk2/nsWindow.cpp : nsWindow::Destroy() (and the gtk/glib code) will contact me so this problem can finally be debugged.

It should be noted, that even with a troublesome sessionstore.js file (many windows and tabs) it still usually takes several days of use to get Firefox into the window destroying problem state.