Bug 498826 - firefox fails to restart after updating plugin (NoScript): 'BadWindow' error from X
Summary: firefox fails to restart after updating plugin (NoScript): 'BadWindow' error ...
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Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Gecko Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-05-03 17:29 UTC by Tom London
Modified: 2018-04-11 09:26 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-05-16 19:43:14 UTC
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Description Tom London 2009-05-03 17:29:04 UTC
Description of problem:
I started firefox and got the 'you have updates to plugins' dialog.

After updating the plugin (NoScript), firefox failed to restart.

Checking ~/.xsession-errors, I see:

The program 'firefox' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 389 error_code 3 request_code 20 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Firefox starts fine after this, just the "automatic restart" failed.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firefox-3.5-0.20.beta4.fc11.x86_64
xulrunner-1.9.1-0.20.beta4.fc11.x86_64

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Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2009-05-04 14:59:32 UTC
When you restart firefox again, does it happen again?

Comment 2 Tom London 2009-05-04 16:31:39 UTC
If I understand your question correctly, no.

It only appeared to happen once (per script update?).

Comment 3 Matěj Cepl 2009-05-16 00:13:00 UTC
I probably cannot do anything else than close this as one-off screw up of somebody. There is precious little in this bug report to work on (if you notice in the original error message, this error message as such is not useful).

If you have any idea how to investigate it further, please, reopen with additional information.

Thank you for filing the report and sorry I cannot do more.

Comment 4 Tom London 2009-05-16 16:06:16 UTC
No problem.

I file anomalies, and do not take it personally if they get closed ;)

Sorry I couldn't provide more information.

If I notice this again, what additional data can I provide?  Something useful if I "firefox -g", etc.?

Comment 5 Matěj Cepl 2009-05-16 19:42:35 UTC
well if you would be able to reproduce it in firefox -g (and with debuginfo-install firefox beforehand) and collect a backtrace it would be awesome.

However, here I have to close this.


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