Iceweasel/Firefox segmentation fault

[Jamon Camisso]

On 07/09/13 09:33 PM, Daniel Wayne Armstrong wrote:
> Hello ... My father has a laptop running Debian Squeeze with all
> updates installed and he says that Iceweasel/Firefox 23.0 crashes on
> him daily. I managed to get the browser to consistently crash on the
> vanityfair.com website with this error:

I am running Jessie with Iceweasel 23 on a 64 bit laptop with no
problems when I visit that site.

> ATTENTION: default value of option force_s3tc_enable overridden by environment.
> ###!!! ABORT: X_GLXDestroyPixmap: GLXBadPixmap; 3 requests ago: file
> /tmp/buildd/iceweasel-23.0/toolkit/xre/nsX11ErrorHandler.cpp, line 157
> ###!!! ABORT: X_GLXDestroyPixmap: GLXBadPixmap; 3 requests ago: file
> /tmp/buildd/iceweasel-23.0/toolkit/xre/nsX11ErrorHandler.cpp, line 157
> Segmentation fault
> 
> After searching there is not much to be found relevant to this issue
> ... the closest thing I found was this:
> 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=896287

I suspect it is a setting somewhere in his prefs.js that might be
causing this.

> ... but this laptop has Intel video (not nvidia) and the proposed fix
> - set "layers.acceleration.force-enabled=false" - already had the
> correct setting.
> 
> He doesn't have any mozilla add-ons installed and running in safe-mode
> continues to result in crashing with above error message.

Try starting 'iceweasel -ProfileManager -new-instance' - make a new
temporary profile and try to reproduce the crash.

If it does *not* crash then you can look at his prefs.js file and try to
find the offending setting.

If it does crash, then you have a more general bug.

Cheers, Jamon
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