Bug 353007 – crash in Epiphany Web Browser: I was surfing. There wer...

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Bug 353007 - crash in Epiphany Web Browser: I was surfing. There wer...


Summary:	crash in Epiphany Web Browser: I was surfing. There wer...


Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 349051

Product:	epiphany
Classification:	Core
Component:	General
Version:	2.15.x
Hardware:	Other All

Importance:	High critical
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Epiphany Maintainers
QA Contact:	Marco Pesenti Gritti

URL:
Whiteboard:

Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2006-08-26 17:04 UTC by Tomasz Sterna
Modified:	2006-08-26 18:44 UTC

See Also:
GNOME target:	---
GNOME version:	2.15/2.16

Description Tomasz Sterna 2006-08-26 17:04:59 UTC

Version: 2.15.92

What were you doing when the application crashed?
I was surfing. There were some havy flash animations on a page.


Distribution: Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4
Gnome Release: 2.15.92 2006-08-23 (Gentoo)
BugBuddy Version: 2.15.92

Memory status: size: 328822784 vsize: 0 resident: 328822784 share: 0 rss: 60055552 rss_rlim: 0
CPU usage: start_time: 1156611429 rtime: 0 utime: 12168 stime: 0 cutime:11916 cstime: 0 timeout: 252 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 1

Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/epiphany'

(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
(no debugging symbols found)
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1210190160 (LWP 15268)]
[New Thread -1501594720 (LWP 15357)]
[New Thread -1493202016 (LWP 15356)]
[New Thread -1484809312 (LWP 15355)]
[New Thread -1407255648 (LWP 15354)]
[New Thread -1415648352 (LWP 15353)]
[New Thread -1381561440 (LWP 15270)]
[New Thread -1226720352 (LWP 15269)]
0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()

+ Trace 71043

Thread 1 (Thread -1210190160 (LWP 15268))

#0 __kernel_vsyscall
#1 __waitpid_nocancel
from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#2 gnome_gtk_module_info_get
from /usr/lib/libgnomeui-2.so.0
#3 <signal handler called>
#4 ??
#5 gtkTimerCallback
from /opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so
#6 g_source_get_current_time
from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#7 g_main_context_dispatch
from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#8 g_main_context_check
from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#9 g_main_loop_run
from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#10 gtk_main
from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#11 main
#0 __kernel_vsyscall

Comment 1 Reinout van Schouwen 2006-08-26 17:23:20 UTC

Thanks for the bug report. However, the crash is caused by the (closed source) Flash plugin so we cannot fix it. 

Feel free to report any other problems you find.

Comment 2 Tomasz Sterna 2006-08-26 17:28:30 UTC

Shouldn't Epiphany take over misbehaving plugin, catch the SIGSEGV, remove the plugin and notify the user of a failure?

Letting a plugin to crash the whole browser (with many other tabs open) loosing the content is not very nice behavior.

Comment 3 Christian Persch 2006-08-26 18:44:40 UTC

Yes, but gecko doesn't support that yet.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 349051 ***