Re: firefox crashes too much

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:47:46 +0100
Demelier David <demelier.david%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

>    The program 'xulrunner-bin' received an X Window System error.
>    This probably reflects a bug in the program.
>    The error was 'RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter)'.
>      (Details: serial 356576 error_code 160 request_code 150 minor_code 7)
>      (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
>       that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>       To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
>       option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
>       backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() 
> function.)
> 
>    What could that be ? I'm running NetBSD 5.0_STABLE and pkgsrc-current.

I think this is triggered by a recent cairo or pango update.
Several people on IRC told me they also see crashes like this.
Anyway, this is a known bug at mozilla[1]. I will update the firefox
package to 3.6.2pre today which should fix the problem.

-Tobias

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522635