Bug 76154

Summary:	Mozilla with xft crashes on Red Hat 8.0 (Xrender bug)
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Christopher Blizzard <blizzard>
Component:	XFree86	Assignee:	Mike A. Harris <mharris>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	aleksey, dbaron, hp, otaylor
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Description Christopher Blizzard 2002-10-17 17:00:10 UTC

Description of Problem:

Mozilla using Xft on Red Hat 8.0 crashes with an X protocol corruption error
when viewing pages that contain long strings.

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

XFree86-4.2.0-72

How Reproducible:

Pretty easy to reproduce.  Go through the long logs on Mozilla's tinderbox.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. browser over to:
http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi?tree=SeaMonkey&hours=12&nocrap=1
2. Click on the L on one of the machines and choose "View Full Log"
3. Start scrolling around

Actual Results:

Crash.

Expected Results:

Works.

Additional Information:
	
Fix for Xrender is included in the mozilla bug:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173204

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2002-10-19 03:26:52 UTC

Keith's patch is added to 4.2.1-9, and is in XFree86 CVS head now
as well.  Building in beehive...

Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2003-07-01 23:21:01 UTC

An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. 
This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen 
this bug report if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-067.html