Bug 905103 - Firefox ocassionally freezes unpredictably and takes out X with it
Summary: Firefox ocassionally freezes unpredictably and takes out X with it
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 18
Hardware: x86_64
OS: All
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Martin Stransky
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-01-28 15:28 UTC by Alexander van Loon
Modified: 2013-02-08 10:20 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2013-02-08 10:20:17 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
Xorg.0.log (39.29 KB, text/x-log)
2013-02-07 16:15 UTC, Alexander van Loon
no flags Details
Xorg.0.log.old (40.02 KB, application/octet-stream)
2013-02-07 16:16 UTC, Alexander van Loon
no flags Details

Description Alexander van Loon 2013-01-28 15:28:41 UTC
Description of problem:
I'm using a fully updated Fedora 18 with Firefox. Over the last week since I started using Fedora 18 (fresh install, no upgrade) I've seen it happen two or three times that Firefox and X after it completely freeze if I click a URL which is opened by Firefox.

The mouse cursor and keyboard become unresponsive. There is no realiable way to reproduce it, but it only happens if I click a link which is then opened in Firefox. The URL which is opened doesn't seem to have any effect, last time it happened when Firefox opened http://www.werkenvoornederland.nl/ which is a legit website. On that occassion I clicked the link in an e-mail I had open in Evolution.

All I can do is hit my PC's reset button. After a reboot I don't get any error messages, only the "Oops, this is embarissing" question from Firefox if I want to restore my tabs. I did have 15 tabs or so open at the time of the crash.

In this topic – http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=282221 – on FedoraForum.org others seems to describe exactly the same issue I experience, but they don't mention existing bug reports.

Comment 1 Martin Stransky 2013-02-07 14:33:30 UTC
Can you please attach Xorg.0.log (and Xorg.0.log.old) log files? There should be the info about X crash.

Comment 2 Alexander van Loon 2013-02-07 16:15:25 UTC
Created attachment 694578 [details]
Xorg.0.log

Comment 3 Alexander van Loon 2013-02-07 16:16:18 UTC
Created attachment 694579 [details]
Xorg.0.log.old

Here you are.

Comment 4 Martin Stransky 2013-02-08 09:24:38 UTC
Ahh, sorry, I mean Xorg.0.log and Xorg.0.log.old files when the Firefox crashes. A crash log should be there.

Comment 5 Alexander van Loon 2013-02-08 10:20:17 UTC
Okay, I kind of expected that because I didn't read anything unusual when I uploaded the files :)

The problem is that I haven't seen a crash occur during the last one or two weeks. I guess I'll just close this bug for now and reopen it (and attach relevant X.org log files) if the crash hits me again.


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