From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Nuno Tavares <nunotavares@hotmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: JPEG/JFIF that will cause mozilla hang, kernel lock and sometimes reboot (FC2)
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:54:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040726205431.GA21889@openzaurus.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2004.07.25.00.23.23.419467@hotmail.com>
Hi!
> This i very odd, I haven't seen this for years. I have a JPEG/JFIF that
> when opened with Mozilla will lock the whole system, and sometimes will
> reboot the system after a little while.
>
> My short investigation led me to conclude that this is a bug both in
> kernel (as it reboots) and in Gecko-based browsers - gecko is the
> HTML rendering engine used in Mozilla, Firefox, Epiphany and probably
> others. This last assumption is due that Konqueror will not crash.
>
> Unfortunely, the JPEG file has some sensitive information, and this hasn't
> happened with anyother. No error messages, nothing. I'm looking for ways
> to debug this, both firefox and the kernel. How do I do that?
Switch to text console, killall klogd, DISPLAY=:0.0 mozilla <url>,
look for messages.
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[not found] <pan.2004.07.24.15.05.44.724512@hotmail.com>
2004-07-25 0:23 ` Nuno Tavares
2004-07-26 20:54 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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