Public bug reported:
This happens to me frequently while using firefox (w/web developer
extension). For a concrete and specific way to recreate...if you use
firefox w/web developer extension, navigate to plone.org. Then click on
the web developer toolbar 'Information' -> 'View JavaScript'. Scroll
down and your x server will restart. No error messages are displayed and
I don't see any relevant messages in Xorg.0.log. All unsaved data is
lost. This also happens if I copy a long single line of text into an
html form (again using firefox). I've seen other bug reports mention
gedit and gtkTextView have problems with long text lines (for example,
Bug #37511), but these seem to mostly be speed issues, not complete x
server crashes. Just to test, I used wget to grab the javascript file
that causes the crash and gedit displays it without any problems (there
is on long line in the middle of the javascript). I'm not really sure
which package is the culprit in my situation, so I didn't quite know
where to post this. Also, if there are other logs I should look at and
post here, let me know.
** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Untriaged
Status: Unconfirmed
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xorg crashes when viewing long text lines
https://launchpad.net/bugs/57914
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