a web site that blows away my desktop session

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, James Hubbard wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, Adam Jackson wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 09:41 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >> > as a followup to one of my posts from yesterday(?), i've been
> >> > cruising the intertoobz, checking for other sites that seem to do bad
> >> > things to my f12 beta desktop session.  here's one -- a post from a
> >> > canadian political blog:
> >> >
> >> > http://scathinglywrongrightwingnutz.blogspot.com/2009/10/difference-between-propaganda-and-facts.html
> >> >
> >> > i am making no political statement with this, i am simply pointing out
> >> > a web page that will (in this case, at least) not take down my entire
> >> > system, but will kick me out of my gnome desktop and force me to log
> >> > back in again.
> >>
> >> Which means X is probably crashing, which means there's probably a
> >> backtrace near the end of /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old afterwards telling
> >> you all about it.
> >
> >  ah, quite right, i forgot about the ".old" Xorg log files.  should i
> > bother reproducing the backtrace here, or just go directly to BZ with
> > this?  eh, here's the backtrace part, it will all be in BZ shortly.
> >
> > Backtrace:
> > 0: /usr/bin/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x28) [0x49e8d8]
> > Segmentation fault at address 0x20
> >
> > Fatal server error:
> > Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
> >
> >  what else would you like in the BZ report?
>
>
> I have two RS690 bugs already filed.  This may or may not help.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=534142
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533645

  yes, those look equivalent, i suspect someone should just mark mine
as a duplicate of one of yours.

rday
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