Re: JPEG/JFIF that will cause mozilla hang, kernel lock and sometimes reboot (FC2)

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> This i very odd, I haven't seen this for years. I have a JPEG/JFIF that
> when opened with Mozilla will lock the whole system, and sometimes will
> reboot the system after a little while.
> 
> My short investigation led me to conclude that this is a bug both in
> kernel (as it reboots) and in Gecko-based browsers - gecko is the
> HTML rendering engine used in Mozilla, Firefox, Epiphany and probably
> others. This last assumption is due that Konqueror will not crash.
> 
> Unfortunely, the JPEG file has some sensitive information, and this hasn't
> happened with anyother. No error messages, nothing. I'm looking for ways
> to debug this, both firefox and the kernel. How do I do that?

Switch to text console, killall klogd, DISPLAY=:0.0 mozilla <url>,
look for messages.
-- 
64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms         

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