Bug#623997: Iceweasel does not show any output under certain kernels

[Mike Hommey]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 09:50:30AM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 3.5.16-6
> Severity: important
> 
> I recently upgraded from Lenny, where iceweasel always worked flawlessly,
> to Squeeze. Due to some incompatibility betewwen my kernel configuration
> and udev it took me some time to find the right options for X (and the
> virtual consoles) to both work simultaneously (together with udev).
> 
> During this time I used the Debian kernel as well as my kernels (recompiling
> several times). During this time, mozilla worked without problems (I don't know
> if I checked it at every combination). Once finished, I'm no longer
> able to use iceweasel.
> 
> Symptoms: Iceweasel starts (I can see the running process in htop) but never 
> ever a window appears.
> 
> I tried all options I could think off (reading the man page).
> --sync
> --no-xshm
> --safe-mode
> -g (after having installed the debug packages, but iceweasel does not crash, so
>     a backtrace does not really make sense)
> 
> I also moved my profile away, but no change.
> 
> I cannot run reportbug, since it does not return, see #623839 for details.
> 
> I went to bugzilla.mozilla.org (using konqueror) but a search for 2.6.32 does
> not give me a fitting result (at least none I could figure out from
> the description).
> 
> Booting into the Debian kernel 
> Linux remaxp 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Mar 7 21:35:22 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> iceweasel starts again.
> 
> After a little experimentation it looks like 2.6.32.36 (grsecurity,
> self compiled) and 2.6.32-5-amd64 (Debian) work, while 2.6.32.38 and
> 2.6.32.39 (both grsecurity, self compiled) do not. For 2.6.32.39 I set
> the compile options as close as possible to the working 2.6.32.36
> configuration, but no change. I attached the diff between those two
> kernels as well. All compilations were done under Squeeze (due to some
> udev problems I had to recompile my previous kernels).
> 
> Please tell me which additional information you need, my description is
> probably missing quite some details, sorry about this.
> 
> I chose "important" as severity, as I really would like to run
> uptodate kernels ("all users MUST upgrade") but then iceweasel no
> longer runs :-((

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527356 ?

Mike