Re: GNU Icecat crashed tab

[nightowl <nightowl@members.fsf.org>]

I am running GuixSD on a 2008 model Dell Inspiron with I believe to be 
an Intel T5300 core 2 CPU.  I have only just started using GuixSD for 
less than a year now, and still on the learning curve.  So, do you think 
the tab crash I see with Icecat could be related to the hardware on my 
PC?

On 24.09.2018 16:26, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
> 
>> Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:
>> 
>>> On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 12:14:30PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>>>> I have seen similar behaviour on a Thinkpad T60 with an x86_64 CPU
>>>> (upgraded from the i686 CPU that it came with).  Icecat tabs crash 
>>>> and
>>>> it can be avoided only by disabling all extensions.
>>>> 
>>>> I don’t know what the cause is.
>>> 
>>> This is weird. I have not experienced it, and I just tried to load 
>>> the
>>> homedepot.com website, which does not pose any problem.
>> 
>> I don’t see this on other x86_64 machines; among those computers that 
>> I
>> have access to, only the T60 is affected, which is why I thought it
>> might simply be a hardware problem.
>> 
>>> Could it be related to memory consumption and, for instance, the 
>>> number
>>> of open tabs?
>> 
>> No, this happens with just one tab.  I found that I couldn’t get it to
>> crash with a simply static website like https://elephly.net, but it
>> would crash somewhat reliably with sites that embed media.
> 
> There’s a bug report about crashes on i686:
> https://issues.guix.info/issue/29736
> 
> FWIW this is the same T60, just before the upgrade to an x86_64 CPU.
> Nothing else on that laptop has been changed since that bug report.
> 
> --
> Ricardo