On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 04:05:45PM +0100, Nuno Tavares wrote: > 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? Just guessing... Research compression bombs in this mailing list and in Google. Make sure that you have limits (ulimit -a) that are within the bounds of physical DRAM then launch the browser. If you are not root, and the kernel causes a reboot then you have a bug. Perhaps it is a bug in the hardware gfx side of the windowing system. Are you fully up2date? -- T o m M i t c h e l l /dev/dull where insight begins.
