I'm helping a friend to build a wiki site at ajudalinux.org/wiki and I stumbled in a small bug/misconfiguration of the MediaWiki/PHP/DataBase/whatever software there: for every single quote( ' ) you put in an article and you send the page, it will make two single quotes( '' ). With two it will make four, four makes eight, and so on. After a few previews of the text I had two huge one liners(it doesn't break the line because it doesn't have spaces) composed of single quotes, one for the previewed text and another for the edit box. I kept hitting the preview button, two horizontal bars formed in the edit box and in the actual page. After a while, maybe after 15+ previews(I didn't count), the screen went back to tty1. The X Server had crashed(or gdm maybe), but then it returned since I have xdm running as boot service. It was like pressing Ctrl+Backspace, but w/o doing it. I don't know if it was the excess of characters, or if the horizontal scroll bar overflowed, or maybe the apache server didn't like to be poked like that :), but that was quite like the digital version of a punch in the face. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pt-BR; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717, Firefox binary from mozilla.org.br /var/log/messages had this in it: Nov 17 22:18:21 Gentoo gdm[13476]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 Nov 17 22:18:21 Gentoo gdm-autologin(pam_unix)[13476]: session closed for user bruno Nov 17 22:18:21 Gentoo (bruno-13560): Recebido sinal 15, desligando corretamente Nov 17 22:18:27 Gentoo (bruno-13560): Terminando Gentoo ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 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-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks nodoc noinfo sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/os/Linux/Gentoo/" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j3" 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 7zip X a52 aac acl acpi aim alsa apm audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bmp bonobo bzip2 cdb cdparanoia cdr cjk crypt curl dts dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode ethereal exif expat fam ffmpeg flac font-server foomaticdb gcj gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal howl icq idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 java joystick jpeg junit kerberos lcms ldap libg++ libwww lua mad matroska mhash mikmod mjpeg mmx mng motif moznocompose mozsvg mp3 mpeg msn musicbrainz mysqli ncurses nis nls nptl nptlonly nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl pic png python quicktime readline recode sblive sdl slang spell sse sse2 ssl subtitles subversion svg svga tcltk tcpd theora threads tidy tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vhosts vorbis win32codecs wmf wxwindows xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS
can you reproduce this multiple times?
no reponse from reporter about reproducing the issue
