Description of problem: Have f8test1 on AMD64 under VMWare as pristine and current as I can make it. Firefox and other apps are not very stable Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): glibc-2.6.90-13 , both i686 and x64_64 versions Firefox 2.0.0.6 How reproducible:very Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start firefox 2.Select File/Preferences 3.You are done Actual results: A an empty transparent frame appears. The app no longer responds; X-close gives the "Force Quit" dialog. An error message dump implicating glibc is sent to the terminal. A copy is attached Expected results: no crash Additional info: FF will also not properly launch a download to the file-roller; similar behavior with empty dialog and freeze. Can't get flash-player plug-in to be recognized.
Created attachment 182361 [details] Capture of messages written to terminal immediately after opening the Preferences box
That's not a glibc error, but an error in the application glibc reported. You can run the program under valgrind to get better understanding of what exact problems does it have and where.
I tried valgrind but it does nothing useful here. I happened upon another report of the same problem, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=245444 The conclusion was that it was caused by a non-supported desktop theme. I had switched to the one called Crux that came with the system. When I switch back to Bluecurve the problem goes away. Clearlooks also works. Perhaps this should be assigned to the maintainer of themes?
OK, reassigning to metacity folks. Is it yours?
This message is a reminder that Fedora 8 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 8. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '8'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 8's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 8 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora please change the 'version' of this bug to the applicable version. If you are unable to change the version, please add a comment here and someone will do it for you. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Fedora 8 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-01-07. Fedora 8 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.