On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 05:27:05PM +0200, Arnaud wrote: > Hello, > > Justin Pryzby a écrit : > > How much VRAM do you have (physical + swap space)? Could you check > > /var/log/kern.log for an OOM message? If you have lots of vram, > > check if this is fixed in firefox 1.5, now in the "testing" > > distribution. I could view the image using a 6 year old laptop. > > There is nothing in /var/log/kern.log about this problem. Nevertheless, > you're seems to be right, because in a xterm session when i lauch > firefox, i've got this : So, how much vram do you have?
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mozilla-firefox http://jmtrivial.info/images/panorama.jpg > *** loading the extensions datasource > The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error. > This probably reflects a bug in the program. > The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'. > (Details: serial 2341 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 contrary, you seem to be right. (But it still seems to be fixed in firefox 1.5). > Is it possible to make firefox saying a message who says « not enough > memory » (or something like that) instead of crashing ? :) I don't know if firefox 1.0 is the same way, but you can try: mozilla-firefox -g [...] bt to get a backtrace. You could also try what the message suggests, with --sync, but a previous experience tells me that this won't actually help. You might also do: gdb --args /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin http://...... set environment LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox:/usr/lib/debug r [...] bt Justin
