X crash

[Brian Chabot]

Ok, this is really just wierd.

I'm running the newest Mandriva 2005LE:
Linux 2.6.11-6mdk #1 Tue Mar 22 16:04:32 CET 2005 i686 Intel(R) 
Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz unknown GNU/Linux

Running x.org version 6.8.2-7.1.102mdkv standard install from RPM.

I start up Mozilla (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) 
Gecko/20050511, standard install from mozilla.org)

Now in the course of my day, I decide to report a spam to spamcop.

The spam had come in to an RT system and I "show full headers" then copy 
the email and paste it into the spamcop page and click "Process Spam".

So far so good.

Now the details page finally loads and I scroll down to click the submit 
button and.....

Screen flashes.

Quick flash of about half a dozen chars of garbage in text mode...

Blinky.

mdkkdm (the desktop manager) now pops up and I get the usual login prompt.

Everything I was running is terminated and I get a fresh login.

Perplexed, I look to the logs.  Nothing useful.  At all.

Any ideas what's going on here?  I can't even tell if this is Mozilla, 
X.org, some library, the kernel, the display driver, or what.

BUT.... This *IS* repeatable.

I now need to find a page that I can send *others* to so they can try 
and reproduce it.

Help....


B (log snippets below)

--------/var/log/syslog-----------
[nothing abnormal, last entry before this was about a minute previous.]
Jun 23 13:35:50 localhost udev[30041]: removing device node '/dev/vcs7'
Jun 23 13:35:50 localhost udev[30042]: removing device node '/dev/vcsa7'
Jun 23 13:35:50 localhost mdkkdm[5119]: X server for display :0 
terminated unexp
ectedly
Jun 23 13:35:50 localhost gconfd (bchabot-29933): Received signal 15, 
shutting d
own cleanly
Jun 23 13:35:50 localhost gconfd (bchabot-29933): Exiting
Jun 23 13:35:50 localhost udev[30061]: configured rule in 
'/etc/udev/rules.d/50-
mdk.rules[197]' applied, added symlink 'vcc/%n'
Jun 23 13:35:50 localhost udev[30061]: creating device node '/dev/vcs7'
Jun 23 13:35:50 localhost pam_console.dev[30069]: Restoring console 
permissions
for /dev/vcs7  /dev/vcc/7
Jun 23 13:35:50 localhost udev[30066]: configured rule in 
'/etc/udev/rules.d/50-
mdk.rules[199]' applied, added symlink 'vcc/a%n'
Jun 23 13:35:50 localhost udev[30066]: creating device node '/dev/vcsa7'
Jun 23 13:35:50 localhost pam_console.dev[30077]: Restoring console 
permissions
for /dev/vcsa7  /dev/vcc/a7
-----------------------------------
(note that /var/log/messages has identical entries.)

--------/var/log/Xorg.0.log---------

    *** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not
    *** be the reason for the server aborting.

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting


Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
          at http://wiki.X.Org
  for help.
Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional 
informati
on.

------------------------------------
(Note entry in /var/log/mdkkdm is identical to the above.)