Bug 748398

Summary:	Firefox 32bit core dumps on current Fedora 16 Alpha
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Phil Knirsch <pknirsch>
Component:	firefox	Assignee:	Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	16	CC:	gecko-bugs-nobody, rvokal
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Description Phil Knirsch 2011-10-24 11:06:02 UTC

Description of problem:

Trying to start a 32bit firefox using the current Fedora 16 Alpha for PPC64 results in the following error:

[root@power02 ~]# firefox
###!!! ABORT: X_GrabButton: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length error); 416 requests ago: file /builddir/build/BUILD/xulrunner-6.0.2/mozilla-release/toolkit/xre/nsX11ErrorHandler.cpp, line 199
###!!! ABORT: X_GrabButton: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length error); 416 requests ago: file /builddir/build/BUILD/xulrunner-6.0.2/mozilla-release/toolkit/xre/nsX11ErrorHandler.cpp, line 199
Aborted (core dumped)


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

[root@power02 ~]# rpm -q kernel glibc libX11 firefox
kernel-3.1.0-0.rc8.git0.0.fc16.kh.ppc64
glibc-2.14.90-10.ppc64
glibc-2.14.90-10.ppc
libX11-1.4.3-1.fc16.ppc64
libX11-1.4.3-1.fc16.ppc
firefox-6.0.2-1.fc16.ppc


How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install latest Fedora 16 Alpha for PPC64 from http://ppc.koji.fedoraproject.org/scratch/karsten/iso/
2. Install 32 bit firefox 
3. Watch the error
  
Actual results:

See above

Expected results:

firefox not core duming and working

Additional info:

The interesting part is that the actual firefox window with all buttons, menu, URL line and everything is visible for a very brief moment after which it disappears and you get the above mentioned error message.

Comment 1 Phil Knirsch 2011-11-07 16:43:36 UTC

One more note here:

Josh Boyer verified that it works perfectly on a local machine, my tests were done from a RHEL-6.1 x86_64 machine via ssh -X to the PPC box and thats when i got the error.

Thanks & regards, Phil

Comment 2 Phil Knirsch 2011-11-10 17:52:09 UTC

OK, seems that something with my local x server seems to be fubar, it works nicely for others over SSH.

Closing as notabug then and i'll investigate where my local x server issue comes from.

Thanks & regards, Phil