Opened 13 years ago

Closed 13 years ago

#2492 closed defect (fixed)

browse segfaults on maps.google.com javascript execution

Reported by: quozl Owned by: lucian
Priority: Low Milestone: Unspecified
Component: Browse Version: Git as of bugdate
Severity: Critical Keywords:
Cc: Distribution/OS:
Bug Status: New

Description

Start Browse, click on URL text entry, type maps.google.com, press enter.

Browse will terminate.

Browse should not terminate.

Affects Browse-108 on XO-1.5 OLPC OS 10.1.2 os852, XO-1 with Browse-101 and Browse-115.

Reported by Esteban Bordon, reproduced by James Cameron.

Attachments (2)

browse-gdb-backtrace.log (14.4 KB) - added by quozl 13 years ago.
gdb backtrace showing point of failure
webview-gdb-backtrace.log (5.7 KB) - added by quozl 13 years ago.
gdb backtrace showing point of failure, using webview instead of browse

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Change History (6)

Changed 13 years ago by quozl

gdb backtrace showing point of failure

comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by sascha_silbe

  • Priority changed from Unspecified by Maintainer to Low
  • Severity changed from Minor to Critical
  • Version changed from Unspecified to Git as of bugdate

Reproduced on Debian Squeeze.
The crash happens deep in C code, as part of some event processing. Even if Browse did something wrong that triggers the crash, it's clearly the fault of some other component. Not sure exactly which component is to blame (candidates are at least python-xpcom, libmozjs and xulrunner), though my first guess would be python-xpcom.

comment:2 Changed 13 years ago by lucian

Perhaps it would be useful to try and reproduce the bug with something like http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_Code_Snippets#WebView, perhaps there is indeed something that Browse in particular does to trigger this bug, in which case there could be a workaround.

comment:3 Changed 13 years ago by quozl

Reproduced as suggested using the WebView code snippet. The stack trace looks identical. Therefore there is nothing in Browse itself that is triggering this.

Changed 13 years ago by quozl

gdb backtrace showing point of failure, using webview instead of browse

comment:4 Changed 13 years ago by RafaelOrtiz

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed

Not being able to reproduce anymore on browse git. closing for now, re opening if happens agains.

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