email kills X

[mikey_111]

Hello,

Not sure if this is the right place to post this or not, but anyways.

 

I am curious about something that happened the other day. I sometimes recieve emails I believe meant for windows box's. Sometimes I'll view the email source to look at it and maybe learn something (yea... I know will get me in trouble some day, if not already).

 

So I viewed it and X died "caught signal 11" in log file. Never happened before did not think it would affect my Linux box (famous last words). I did a search and actually found the same if not very similar email posted to a source forge developer list and when I scrolled down through it and back up, it killed X again.

 

I was wondering what was causing the issue? something in the html or ?

Or could it be something in my browser email client that is causing this.

 

I will post a link to the sourceforge forum where its at if someone would be willing to explain this to me.

 

MDK 10.0

Xorg

Mozilla 1.7

 

 

mikey_111

[devries]

It's possible to crash any software but I agree with you that something as trivial as reading an email shouldn't crash X. Perhaps you could file a bug report at xorg.

[mikey_111]

Thanks devries,

 

I will look around somemore check for bug reports.

 

Not a big thing to me, but like a say first time it happened to me.

Thought might be something executing when I viewed the email.

Will give something to learn about :-)

 

mikey_111

[mikey_111]

Ok, I have got a little farther.

 

The same email does not cause a problem when viewed with Konqueror

or with Firefox 1.0.1 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1)

 

The issue is only with Mozilla (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616)

 

So probably Mozilla bug of this particular version.

 

End of story.

 

mikey_111