Firefox and Mozilla sometimes crash and take X down with them (signal 11) when I try to use http://nickciske.com/tools/binary.php for decoding the ASCII-Art Image on http://www.lamamail.de/stuff/battlenet.html (this was index.html on www.battle.net a couple of hours ago). Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: mozilla-firefox 1.0.7-r3 mozilla 1.7.12-r2 xorg-x11 6.8.2-r6 nvidia-kernel/glx 1.0.7676(-r1) xfwm4 4.2.2 gm # emerge --info Portage 2.0.53_rc4 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre8 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1, 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirror.solnet.ch http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.math.bme.hu http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex 7zip X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acl acpi adns aim alsa amuled apm arts audiofile avi bcmath berkdb bidi bindist bitmap-fonts bonobo bootsplash bzip2 bzlib cairo cdda cddb cdparanoia cdr cjk codecs cpdflib crypt ctype cups curl curlwrappers dbus dbx dga dio divx4linux dmx dpms dvd dvdr dvdread eds effects emboss encode erandom escreen estraier etwin exif extras fam fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox flac flash font-server foomaticdb fortran freetts freetype ftp gd gdbm gif gimpprint gl glibc-compat20 glibc-omitfp glitz gnome gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile iconv icq idn imagemagick imap imlib inkjar ipv6 jabber java javascript joystick jpeg jpeg2k junit kde kdeenablefinal kqemu ladcca lcms libcaca libedit libg++ libsamplerate libwww live mad maildir matroska mbrola memlimit mhash mikmod mime ming mmx mmx2 mng motif mozdevelop mozilla moznocompose moznoirc mozp3p mozsvg mp3 mpeg mplayer musicbrainz ncurses network nls nocd nptl nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis openal openexr opengl oscar oss pam pdflib perl physfs pie plotutils plugin png portaudio posix ppds python qemu-fast qt quicktime readline real remote rtc samba sdk sdl session shared sharedmem silverxp slang slp smtp sockets softmmu soundtouch speex spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl startup-notification stats stream svg szip tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads thumbnail tidy tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales videos visualization vorbis win32codecs wmf wxgtk1 wxwindows xfs xine xml xml2 xmms xosd xpm xrandr xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
This *could* be an nVidia problem, I've seen similar on my friend's laptop. Give the nv driver a spin and see if the problem goes away.
> Give the nv driver a spin and see if the problem goes away. You're right, it doesn't crash with the nv driver.
Ok, re-assigning. Just to double-check: do you have RenderAccel on or off?
RenderAccel is on, when I turn it off it doesn't crash anymore.
RenderAccel seems to constantly have stability issues. However, I hear nVidia cards are kinda slow without... I'll leave this to those who know the driver better.
I just stumbled upon this problem again, this time with Firefox 1.5.0.6 and 2.0_beta1 on xorg-x11-7.0-r1 with the latest nvidia driver (1.0.8762-r1). Just go to a page where you can input lots of stuff into a single text input field (the search box of http://www.cherrypy.org for example) and paste the same text over and over again. My screen goes blank and I can't use the keyboard no more, starting a new X server over ssh helps. After the crash you can see some debug messages on VT7, but I can't scroll them back and they don't seem to appear anywhere else.
Looks like this also happens on Ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/46034
This bug is fixed in the upcoming 9xxx-Series of nVidia drivers.
