Bug 19802 – mozilla-opera-xchat are killed by the kernel at launch time because out of memory fault

• Product: Gentoo Hosted Projects
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description aillas 2003-04-22 18:05:13 UTC]

mozilla, opera, xchat are filling up first the physical memory (64Mb)
then the swap partition (100Mb). when both are full program is killed 
before to display anything.
this behaviour appeared after installation of icecc-0.5 which requested
emerging of the following packages :
icebgset-0.5 icets-0.8 icesndcfg-0.8
libmng-1.0.4 lcms-1.09
qt-3.1.2-r3 which I downgraded to try to solve the problem : no succes
xft-2.0.1-r2 which I re-installed : no succes.
opera was working before on the same system -> suspection of a run-time 
library or config file. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.launch opera mozilla or xchat (probably some others)
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
software killed before displaying a window

Expected Results:  
...start

bash-2.05b# emerge info
Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r2 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine)
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
USE="oss 3dnow arts avi crypt cups encode libwww mikmod mmx motif nls oggvorbis sdl spell xmms xv gdbm berkdb slang tcpd pam ssl perl python imlib apm dga gif gpm gtk java jpeg libg++ mozilla mpeg ncurses opengl pcmcia pdflib png pnp pyton qt quicktime readline samba scanner svga tcltk tiff truetype usb X xml xml2 zlib x86 -gnome -kde -alsa -cdr"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"

[Comment 1 Seth Chandler 2003-04-22 18:13:09 UTC]

i'm gonna have to say this isn't a keychain bug 

[Comment 2 Jay Pfeifer (RETIRED) 2003-06-27 13:45:00 UTC]

nor a kernel issue... who handles icecc?

[Comment 3 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-07-07 08:25:59 UTC]

how about adding 1 gb swap ?

maybe your system is running out of memory (xfree, mozilla using very much memory)

[Comment 4 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2003-07-07 08:39:02 UTC]

icecc-0.5 is not exactly the current stable version - why did you install that?
To which Qt version did you downgrade and why?

By the way, it does _not_ require xft - you should not emerge xft at all if you have a current xfree 4.3.x.

Please provide this information and maybe the output you see when you try to start one of the failing applications from an xterm.

[Comment 5 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2003-07-07 23:43:29 UTC]

I just noticed how old this bug is... aillas, is anything of this still a problem for you?

[Comment 6 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2003-07-17 01:48:55 UTC]

No reaction, closing as WONTFIX since it deals only with old stuff