Created attachment 428368 [details] emerge --info Firefox crashes on visiting http://hessenschau.de/wetter/wetterkameras/wetterkamera-wasserkuppe-100.html Steps to reproduce: 1. Have a clean profile 2. From xterm call "firefox http://hessenschau.de/wetter/wetterkameras/wetterkamera-wasserkuppe-100.html" 3. Click any handle on that site 4. ( Firefox crashes ) 5. Find message on xterm [3087] ###!!! ABORT: X_CopyArea: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter); 3 requests ago: file /var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-45.0/work/firefox-45.0/toolkit/xre/nsX11ErrorHandler.cpp, line 157
Created attachment 428404 [details] strace Here I am adding an strace log.
Created attachment 428410 [details] Once again the strace Previous ( gz compressed one ) is corrupted
Works fine for me. I expect the crash is due to the usual imcompatibility with x11-libs/cairo-1.14.x . Try unsetting the system-cairo USE flag and see if things improve.
(In reply to Ian Stakenvicius from comment #3) > Try unsetting the system-cairo USE flag and see if things improve. It does. So this seems to be one of the cases where using x11-libs/cairo[X,xcb,-xlib-xcb] from bug 564918#c13 does not solve it.
Hello! Being fed up with the issue, I investigated what might be causing the "firefox[system-cairo]" problem. After recompiling with debugging symbols and a lot of backtracing, what I found is the following: 1. Looking at the cairo code in firefox, I found clue to the bundled version: ------------------------------ $ less firefox-45.0.1/gfx/cairo/cairo/README -> VERSIONS: cairo (12d521df8acc483b2daa844d4f05dc2fe2765ba6) pixman (0.24.2) ------------------------------ 2. Trying to figure out how long in the past that was released, I got to the following commit from the cairo sources: ------------------------------ Commit 12d521df8acc483b2daa844d4f05dc2fe2765ba6 Author: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> Date: Thu Jan 21 13:19:17 2010 -0800 ------------------------------ Which means the version bundled is somewhere between 1.8.8 and 1.9.6 (I'm more inclined for the latter, as the README starts with "Snapshot versions of cairo and pixman for mozilla usage") 3. Consider that we have 118 patches in the parent folder: ------------------------------ firefox-45.0.1/gfx/cairo $ find -maxdepth 1 -iname "*.patch" | wc -l 118 ------------------------------ Which for sure cannot amount to the changes cairo underwent in the last 6 years. In short, the bundled version is at least 6 years old, patched only for mozilla needs after the bundling/fork. I didn't look for log files and Makefile entries, but I suspect those patches to be applied before the build start. What I'd expect from such a version is to *not* be compatible in most ways with the current version - data structures, ABIs, API usage. It's still a mistery to me how firefox even displayed the page I had last open, now that I know this. Of course, after recompiling with -system-cairo, everything works: new tabs open and google adsense reports show up properly instead of killing the browser by SIGSEGV. Since this seems to be utterly broken, please consider dropping the flag to spare the users nightmares (also in the firefox versions to follow).
Update: I found the following bug upstream which tracks the updating of the bundled version: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739096 Apparently I wasn't too far off, upstream "intree" should be near cairo-1.9.5 (see comment 35).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 556378 ***
