On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:11:49PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Package: iceweasel > Version: 23.0-2 > Severity: grave > Justification: causes non-serious data loss > > I did the following: > * From a blank window, opened 20 tabs from the bookmarks. > * While loading wasn't finished, I started to type a URL in the > address bar. A pane appeared with a list of proposed URL's as > usual, and remained open. > > At this time, Firefox was no longer reacting, and I couldn't have > the focus on any other window. I couldn't close the Firefox window. > The only thing I could do is to switch the desktop via FvwmPager. > > I tried to open a virtual text terminal, but everything froze. > > Then I connected by SSH via my phone. I noticed that the iceweasel > process had a "sh" zombie child (it looks like bug 703472). > > I killed iceweasel with kill -9, but the X system was still frozen. > I had to kill my window manager (fvwm). Then I could log in again. > > So, the cause may be bug 703472 (not sure because I don't know why > mailcap would be involved), but this is even worse, as it took the > whole X system with it. > > What I lost: > * All the shell sessions. > * The Firefox session when I restarted it (only a few tabs were > retrieved). Not much a problem since this came from bookmarks > here, but it could have been worse. > > Fortunately, I didn't have unsaved data from other X applications, > but again, it could have been worse.
Is it reproducible? You have a lot of addons. Try disabling them. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
