From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266566AbUG0UK0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:10:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266582AbUG0UK0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:10:26 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:24529 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266566AbUG0UKY (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:10:24 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:54:32 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Nuno Tavares Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: JPEG/JFIF that will cause mozilla hang, kernel lock and sometimes reboot (FC2) Message-ID: <20040726205431.GA21889@openzaurus.ucw.cz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 , look for messages. -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms