Re: [K12OSN] Crashing Firefox on terminal in new un-messed with install

[Eric Harrison <eharrison mail mesd k12 or us>]

Jim Christiansen wrote:
> I wish it wasn't Friday afternoon...  I'll miss all of you guys for the
> weekend!
> 
> I've redone the install on my home test server of the new FC5 with
> Eric's new ltsp packages to confirm my troubles.  What happens on a
> client is that when even called by root, Firefox on certain pages (many)
> will crash with the following message in a console:
> 
> [root christiansens ~]# /opt/firefox/firefox
> The program 'firefox-bin' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
>  (Details: serial 42238 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
>  (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.)
> 
> On the server, the same webpage loads.  This page is nothing compliated
> on many of the crashing pages and this one is served off of my
> webserver.  The example crashing page is a large image.  Other pages
> that crash die so fast I don't even know what is on them...
> 
> I should have checked on the server to see how how the crashing webpages
> behaved days ago... This is my third install and I figured I was messing
> things up with plugins as all of the libraries may have been mixed up
> between 32 and 64 bit versions- but I guess this isn't the case. 
> Firefox dies even without any plugins installed.  No Acroread, java or
> flash...no audio, xine libs, mplayer plugins... nothing extra.
> 
> Any ideas appreciated!!  Fire away  :-)
> 
> Thanks,  Jim
> 


Is this a 64bit or 32bit install?

Can you give a link to a page that crashes on you?

How much memory do you have in your terminal? (does setting
LTSP_USE_NBD_SWAP=Y in lts.conf help?)

What video card do you have in your terminal?

-Eric