Package: firefox Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.3-2 Severity: important
This bug has existed for quite a while (I guess more than 6 months in Sid) both in Mozilla and Firefox; I filed it against Mozilla as #366138. Sometimes if I hit keys (by accident) 'wrongly', i.e. not squarely, hitting two keys at once, Firefox (or Mozilla) will hang with almost 100% CPU usage, freezing the whole X system (no running program will respond to keystrokes or mouse clicks). The only remedy is to press Control-Alt-F2 to go to the console, and to type killall firefox-bin. It has always been difficult to reproduce this for purposes of bug reporting but now I found a fairly reliable way; -start Firefox. -put the cursor in the address window. -hit the "A" key, but somewhat to the left, so you also engage the CapsLock key. You will probably not have to try this more than 2 or 3 times before your system freezes completely with approx. 100% CPU usage by Firefox. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages firefox depends on: ii debianutils 2.16 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii fontconfig 2.3.2-5.1 generic font configuration library ii libatk1.0-0 1.11.4-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.0.4-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-5.1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-3 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.1.0-2 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.10.2-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.17-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libidl0 0.8.6-1 library for parsing CORBA IDL file ii libjpeg62 6b-12 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libpango1.0-0 1.12.1-2 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5.1 PNG library - runtime ii libstdc++6 4.1.0-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-6 X11 client-side library ii libxcursor1 1.1.5.2-5 X cursor management library ii libxext6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxfixes3 1:3.0.1.2-4 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-7 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxi6 1:1.0.0-5 X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxp6 1:1.0.0-1 X Printing Extension (Xprint) clie ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-4 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-4 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii psmisc 22.2-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-11 compression library - runtime firefox recommends no packages. -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
