I want a machine-readable version of this web page, but attempts to save it cause firefox to shut down. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. view the page 2. file -> save page as 3. stare at empty screen where firefox used to be Actual Results: crash Expected Results: dialog asking me where to save it Add-ons installed (all current): Adblock Plus, Cookie monster, Download Helper, Fast Video Download (with Searchmenu), NewsFox, NoScript, Stop Autoplay, WOT, Xmarks Plug ins: Adobe Reader 9.3, Java 1.6.0_20, Shockwave Flash 9.0 r115 The only other things running were terminals, some in SSH sessions. None were doing anything at the moment. treat portage # emerge --info Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.32-gentoo-r7-kosmanor i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.32-gentoo-r7-kosmanor-i686-Intel-R-_XEON-TM-_CPU_1.80GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 07:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p37 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10 dev-lang/python: 2.4.6, 2.5.4-r4, 2.6.4-r1, 3.1.2-r3 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.1.2, 4.3.4, 4.4.3-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA @EULA @BINARY-REDISTRIBUTABLE" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mmmx" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mmmx" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y" FEATURES="assume-digests buildpkg distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://www.cyberuse.com/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.llarian.net/" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en en_US fr de es pl" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac acl acpi aim alsa apache2 apm bash-completion bcmath berkdb branding bzip2 cairo calendar caps cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cscope ctype cups cxx dbm dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam fastcgi flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif git gphoto2 gpm gtk guile hal iconv icq imap imlib ipv6 java jbig joystick jpeg kde lcms ldap libnotify libwww mad mailwrapper mbox mcal mikmod mime mmap mmx mng modules motif mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap mysql ncurses nis nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin odbc offensive ogg openal opengl openmp oscar pam pango pcre pdf perl pic plotutils png posix postgres ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 readline reflection ruby samba sdl session snmp sockets spell spl sse ssl startup-notification subversion svg svga symlink sysfs sysvipc tcpd tetex tiff tk truetype unicode usb vorbis x264 x86 xcb xml xorg xpm xulrunner xv xvid yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US fr de es pl" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="mach64 vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS treat portage #
Hello Kevin, can you run firefox from terminal (`firefox`) and watch if there's any output during this crash? Any library load error? You can check `dmesg` output, too. Is `revdep-rebuild --ignore` (app-portage/gentoolkit) clean? On a side note: I recommend `wget -O <filename> <URL>` to just download that page. Michael
Yes. Firefox starts clean from the terminal. What's really annoying is that the bug (which was completely repeatable when filed) is not any more. The page loads and "save as"-es just fine. Thanks for the quick reply, and if this comes up again, I'll try to gather more info. BTW: I always do a revdep-rebuild and confirm bugs before I file them. This was no exception. Plus, I don't think anything was updated since yesterday (bug filing day) because I've been 'way too busy for such. I did do a reboot when my screen went dark and I couldn't get it back. Maybe the reboot fixed it, but I couldn't figure out anything less severe than the RESET button. So something was seriously hosed, and will run okay for a while. This was this morning, many hours after noting the bug. I guess I may as well mark it "works for me", pending better info. I hate bugs like this.
(In reply to comment #2) > BTW: I always do a revdep-rebuild and confirm bugs before I file them. This > was no exception. That's perfect behavior, but not all users even know about it. > Plus, I don't think anything was updated since yesterday (bug filing day) > because I've been 'way too busy for such. I did do a reboot when my screen > went dark and I couldn't get it back. Maybe the reboot fixed it, but I > couldn't > figure out anything less severe than the RESET button. So something was > seriously hosed, and will run okay for a while. This was this morning, many > hours after noting the bug. Sadly these bugs were hard to trace down. I assumed a problem displaying the "Save As" dialog box from your Desktop Environment. Hm, maybe your ~/.xsession-errors contains some info. AFAIK, this is the place where the output of all "spp launcher" started apps end up. But it gets rotated and the lines carry no timestamps. > I hate bugs like this. No problem!
Thanks for the reply. I've instituted an hourly cron job that introduces a `date` into .xsession-errors every hour, just in case I need it later. There's so much stuff in there, I gave up trying to guess where this happened. I agree this is a likely place in case it happens again, because the save-as dialog did not come up.
