Your message dated Sun, 14 Sep 2025 09:33:13 +0200
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and subject line iceweasel has been superseded by firefox-esr
has caused the Debian Bug report #642537,
regarding iceweasel: randomly crashes by receiving from X the following: ABORT:
Request 155.34: BadLength
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: iceweasel
Version: 6.0.2-1
Severity: important
After having to upgrade iceweasel (because of dependency requirements) to
either 5.* or to 6.* it started
randomly crashing. It runs for a few minutes and then I receive this error on
the console:
###!!! ABORT: Request 155.34: BadLength (poly request too large or
internal Xlib length error); 215 requests ago: file
/build/buildd-iceweasel_6.0.2-1-i386-0rGvYM/iceweasel-6.0.2/toolkit/xre/nsX11ErrorHandler.cpp,
line 199
To make sure it's not the add-ons, I ran it like this:
MOZILLA_DISABLE_PLUGINS=1 gdb --args /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin -g
-safe-mode
And got the stack trace:
(gdb) bt full
#0 0xb74d3667 in raise () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
No symbol table info available.
#1 0xb74d6a52 in abort () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
No symbol table info available.
#2 0xb773bee7 in mozalloc_abort (msg=0xbfc5c454 "###!!! ABORT: Request
155.34: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length
error); 215 requests ago: file
/build/buildd-iceweasel_6.0.2-1-i386-0rGvYM/iceweasel-6.0.2/toolkit/xre/nsX11Erro"...)
at
/build/buildd-iceweasel_6.0.2-1-i386-0rGvYM/iceweasel-6.0.2/memory/mozalloc/mozalloc_abort.cpp:76
No locals.
Die: DW_TAG_unspecified_type (abbrev = 24, offset = 213332010)
has children: FALSE
attributes:
DW_AT_name (DW_FORM_strp) string:
"decltype(nullptr)"
Dwarf Error: Cannot find type of die [in
module
/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/xulrunner-6.0/libxul.so]
It's obviously not coming from iceweasel, but I don't
have any clue on what package to change to fix this problem. I already upgraded
my Xorg packages.
I would appreciate if you can give me any insight (I assume it's some
package I stupidly forgot to upgrade)
Thanks!
-- Package-specific info:
-- Addons package information
Still happens when all add-ons and plugins were disabled (see above gdb
session).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-rc5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii debianutils 3.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii fontconfig 2.8.0-2 generic font configuration library
ii libc6 2.13-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.5.2-7 GCC support library
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.23.3-3 GDK Pixbuf library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.28.6-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.4-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.7-2 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libstdc++6 4.6.0-7 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii procps 1:3.2.7-3 /proc file system utilities
ii xulrunner-6.0 6.0.2-1 XUL + XPCOM application runner
iceweasel recommends no packages.
Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
ii latex-xft-fonts 1.6.5-1 TrueType versions of some TeX font
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.8.3+dfsg~beta1-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii mozplugger 1.12.1-2 Plugin allowing external viewers t
ii ttf-lyx 1.6.4-1 TrueType versions of some TeX font
pn ttf-mathematica4.1 <none> (no description available)
ii xfonts-mathml 4 Type1 Symbol font for MathML
Versions of packages xulrunner-6.0 depends on:
ii libasound2 1.0.24.1-3 shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii libatk1.0-0 2.0.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.3-6 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libc6 2.13-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcairo2 1.10.2-6.1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libevent-1.4-2 1.4.14b-stable-1 asynchronous event notification li
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.4.6-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.5.2-7 GCC support library
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.23.3-3 GDK Pixbuf library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.28.6-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.4-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libhunspell-1.2-0 1.2.11-1 spell checker and morphological an
ii libjpeg8 8c-2 Independent JPEG Group's JPEG runt
ii libmozjs6d 6.0.2-1 Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScript li
ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.7-2 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libnss3-1d 3.12.11-3 Network Security Service libraries
ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-6 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpixman-1-0 0.21.8-1 pixel-manipulation library for X a
ii libreadline6 6.0-5 GNU readline and history libraries
ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.6.2-1 SQLite 3 shared library
ii libstartup-notification 0.10-1 library for program launch feedbac
ii libstdc++6 4.6.0-7 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libvpx0 0.9.6-1 VP8 video codec (shared library)
ii libx11-6 2:1.4.3-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.1-3 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages xulrunner-6.0 suggests:
ii libcanberra0 0.22-1 a simple abstract interface for pl
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.92-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgconf2-4 2.32.4-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgnomeui-0 2.24.2-1 The GNOME libraries (User Interfac
ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.24.2-1 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
pn libnotify4 <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 115.12.0esr-1+rm
src:iceweasel has been superseded by src:firefox-esr in version
45.0esr-1 in March 2016. Transitional packages to ease upgrades were
provided in the wheezy, jessie, stretch and buster releases. The
transitional packages have been removed finally before the bullseye
release in August 2021.
After regular security support for buster ended in August 2022 and LTS
support ended in June 2024, I'm closing the remaining bug reports now.
Andreas
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