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Package: firefox
Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.3-2
Severity: important
This bug has existed for quite a while (I guess more than 6 months in Sid)
both in Mozilla and Firefox; I filed it against Mozilla as #366138.
Sometimes if I hit keys (by accident) 'wrongly', i.e. not squarely, hitting two
keys at
once, Firefox (or Mozilla) will hang with almost 100% CPU usage, freezing
the whole X system (no running program will respond to keystrokes or mouse
clicks). The only remedy is to press Control-Alt-F2 to go to the console,
and to type killall firefox-bin.
It has always been difficult to reproduce this for purposes of bug reporting
but now I found a fairly reliable way;
-start Firefox.
-put the cursor in the address window.
-hit the "A" key, but somewhat to the left, so you also engage the
CapsLock key.
You will probably not have to try this more than 2 or 3 times before your
system freezes completely with approx. 100% CPU usage by Firefox.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages firefox depends on:
ii debianutils 2.16 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii fontconfig 2.3.2-5.1 generic font configuration library
ii libatk1.0-0 1.11.4-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.0.4-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-5.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-3 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.0-2 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.10.2-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.17-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libidl0 0.8.6-1 library for parsing CORBA IDL file
ii libjpeg62 6b-12 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libpango1.0-0 1.12.1-2 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5.1 PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++6 4.1.0-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-6 X11 client-side library
ii libxcursor1 1.1.5.2-5 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxfixes3 1:3.0.1.2-4 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-7 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 1:1.0.0-5 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxp6 1:1.0.0-1 X Printing Extension (Xprint) clie
ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-4 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-4 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii psmisc 22.2-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-11 compression library - runtime
firefox recommends no packages.
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Package: firefox/iceweasel
Version: 2.0.0.8
The bug was caused by an interaction between firefox/iceweasel and
the keyboard input system uim. uim has been fixed, the bug no
longer exists.
Regards, Jan
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