Bug#699034: libwebkitgtk-1.0-0: midori and GtkLauncher crash after typing a url (cairo-surface.c assertion)

[Michael Gilbert]

control: reassign -1 src:cairo

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Alberto wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 03:09 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote:
>> > Just open midori or GtkLauncher and type in the address bar
>> > "http://www.facebook.com" or "http://www.twitter.com" and press Enter.
>> > The browser automatically crashes.
>> > This is the error shown in the terminal
>> >
>> > GtkLauncher: /build/buildd-cairo_1.12.2-2-i386-1cmzkR/cairo-1.12.2/src/cairo-
>> > surface.c:1591: cairo_surface_set_device_offset: Assertion `status ==
>> > CAIRO_STATUS_SUCCESS' failed.
>> > Aborted
>>
>> I'm not seeing this at all. Please attach a backtrace which will be
>> far more informative:
>> http://wiki.debian.org/bactrace
>
> Here it is (after installing libwebkitgtk-1.0-0-dbg).

This looks more like an issue with cairo itself.  Anyway, the traces
would be more informative with the gtk and glib dbg packages
installed.

>> Is there anything unique about your setup?
>
> I don't think so.
> It's a plain updated wheezy i386 with nouveau and XFCE.

Huge guess here, but can you try with vesa rather than nouveau?

Best wishes,
Mike