Re: Bizarre failure

Cristian Gutierrez <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.compw.window-managers.windowmaker.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Este jueves, Russ Button dijo:

[...]

> I go to Google and do a search on:
>
> wget  "Invalid PORT"
>
> When that search is invoked, the whole window manager crashes.
> It's not subtle either.  What the heck can happen in Mozilla that
> would take down Windowmaker altogether like that?

8th search result here is the wget binary itself (!!), so I guess
Mozilla is doing some bizarre font-related request to X/Xft/whatever. X
goes down (that's not unheard of), and of course it takes WM with it.

In my case Opera doesn't crash (phew! its stability record is not one to
brag about!) and neither X, but it gets painfully slow when it gets to
render the 8th search result. This is what I see 20 secs after:

? ç?À@  P À @ ð2 p @ @ @ ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿð? .text p ...
... Invalid PORT. ==> REST %ld ... REST failed; will not truncate `%s'. ...
useragent verbose wait waitretry anonymous -wget@ no_proxy ?@HOME WGETRC %s: ...
www.cybersoft.com/downloads/ gnu/downloads/tru64-alpha/wget - 674k - Cached - Similar pages

(I hope this doesn't kill your WMs :-)

There was a discussion some time ago, about IE being the most
error-prone (as in "able of not crashing when feeded bogus HTML, or even
binary data) browser of all available. This seems to be their point.

Cheers,

-- 
Cristian Gutierrez			http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~crgutier
crgutier[@]dcc.uchile.cl                        Jabber:[email protected]

«UNIX is like Sex: If you don't know it, you don't miss it. But if you
know it, you'll need it.» -- Anonymous. 

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