Bug#470853: Crashes with BadAlloc on www.howtoforge.com

[Mike Hommey]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 07:05:24PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> reassign 470853 libwebkitgtk0d 0~svn27674-4
> thanks
> 
> On ven, 2008-03-14 at 02:00 +0100, Michael Goth wrote:
> > epiphany-webkit crashes when visiting the following page:
> > 
> > http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_xen_setup_debian_ubuntu
> > 
> > This is the error message printed:
> > 
> > The program 'epiphany-webkit' received an X Window System error.
> > This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> > The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
> >    (Details: serial 10945 error_code 11 request_code 53 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.)
> > 
> > 
> > The problem seems to be the same as in #461820
> 
> Yes, same as #461820 for iceweasel and #466103 for xulrunner.
> 
> It is still unclear whether this is a bug in the intel X driver or just
> a badly handled X error in both webkit and gecko.

Well, reality is also that gdk doesn't really give them a chance to catch the
X error and die()s itself...

Mike