** Summary changed: - [nvidia-new] a visit to http://www.themareks.com/xf/ in firefox hardy causes X to restart + [nvidia-new, hardy] certain websites in firefox causes X restart due to lack of wfb symlink
** Description changed: Binary package hint: xorg If you go to http://www.themareks.com/xf/ in hardy with latest updates and click the second link on the left ("Conspiracy"), X will restart. This bug seems to be 100% reproducible by some while nothing happens with others (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=746777). It might be that this only occurs on 64 bit, but this is just an assumption. Bug is confirmed by me under 64 bit. + + [Update] + Nvidia reports (http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1639245&postcount=13): + Re: This web page crashex 169.12 and 173.08 but not 169.04 + It should be using the one from the server. That looks like a bug in the package. + + The .run installer will always create a symlink from libnvidia-wfb.so.1 + to libnvidia-wfb.so.1.x.y.z, and then will create a symlink from + libwfb.so to libnvidia-wfb.so.1 only if an existing libwfb.so doesn't + already exist. The idea is that if the server installed one, it'll use + that, and if someone used a distribution package and then installed the + .run file over it, the distro package would have already created a + libwfb.so -> libnvidia-wfb.so.1 symlink. In practice, I don't think that + was communicated clearly enough to the distributions. + + [Testcase] + To reproduce the bug, gedit killer.html and paste the following line: + + <div style="border: 1px solid #000; border-left: none; height: + 200000px;"></div> + + Save, close, and open with Firefox. WARNING: This will probably crash X + for users with proprietary Nvidia drivers and 8xxx series cards (at + least it crashes for me). + + [Workaround] + sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nvidia/libwfb.so.xserver-xorg-core /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so + + [Thanks go to Nick B and Silviu Julean for their analysis work] ** Changed in: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Triaged -- [nvidia-new, hardy] certain websites in firefox causes X restart due to lack of wfb symlink https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/212648 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
