Sorry for the very late reply. Are you still seeing this bug in the
latest iceweasel? 

* Axel Beckert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 2.0+dfsg-1
> Severity: important
> 
> If you enter any two locations (at least "zurich" and "brussel" when
> looking for flights to fosdem, but some others do it, too), iceweasel
> will crash with the following error message shortly after you've hit
> the search button:
> 
> The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
>   (Details: serial 69244 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
>   (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
>    that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>    To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
>    option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
>    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
> 
> Doing as recommended (installed iceweasel-dbg, called "iceweasel
> --sync"), I still only get:
> 
> The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
>   (Details: serial 89436 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
>   (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
>    that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>    To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
>    option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
>    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
> 
> The box here runs on a binary NVidia driver with XFree86 from Sarge
> (iceweasel runs inside a Sid chroot on that box), but the same happens
> with the original firefox from Debian Sarge, too, and not only on
> NVidia boxes but also with on boxes with other hardware and original
> Sarge X drivers, so it shouldn't be one of these ugly
> NVidia-Gecko-related bugs:
> 
> The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
>   (Details: serial 102208 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
>   (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
>    that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>    To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
>    option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
>    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
> 
> If I start the iceweasel in an X.org 7.1 Xnest (version: 2:1.1.1-10)
> from Sid and do the same, also the Xnest get's killed:
> 
> X Error of failed request:  BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  53 (X_CreatePixmap)
>   Serial number of failed request:  11359379
>   Current serial number in output stream:  11359379
> [1]    exit 1     DISPLAY=:0.0 Xnest -full :1
> 
> This is probably the same bug as in http://bugs.debian.org/382014
> (Galeon 1.3.20 from Sarge) which happened in Sarge, too. (but doesn't
> seem to happen in Sid) and doesn't seem to get fixed in Sarge. Perhaps
> they should be merged.
> 
> The bug does neither happen on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS with Firefox 1.5.0.7
> and X.org 7.0.0, nor does it happen with "links2 -g" on Sarge (which
> doesn't seem to make heavy use of X features). So it may be that this
> is more an XFree86 bug (at least in Sarge) then a bug in Gecko. If so,
> please reassign and tag the Bug appropriately. (Probably reassign to
> XFree86 and tag it stable/sarge).
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 4.0
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.4.33.2-1-dphys-k8-smp-64gb
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
> 
> Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
> ii  debianutils               2.17.3         Miscellaneous utilities specific 
> t
> ii  fontconfig                2.4.1-2        generic font configuration 
> library
> ii  libatk1.0-0               1.12.3-1       The ATK accessibility toolkit
> ii  libc6                     2.3.6.ds1-8    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii  libcairo2                 1.2.4-4        The Cairo 2D vector graphics 
> libra
> ii  libfontconfig1            2.4.1-2        generic font configuration 
> library
> ii  libfreetype6              2.2.1-5        FreeType 2 font engine, shared 
> lib
> ii  libgcc1                   1:4.1.1-20     GCC support library
> ii  libglib2.0-0              2.12.4-2       The GLib library of C routines
> ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.8.20-3       The GTK+ graphical user 
> interface 
> ii  libjpeg62                 6b-13          The Independent JPEG Group's 
> JPEG 
> ii  libmyspell3c2             1:3.1-17       MySpell spellchecking library
> ii  libpango1.0-0             1.14.7-1       Layout and rendering of 
> internatio
> ii  libpng12-0                1.2.13-3       PNG library - runtime
> ii  libstdc++6                4.1.1-20       The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
> ii  libx11-6                  2:1.0.3-3      X11 client-side library
> ii  libxft2                   2.1.8.2-8      FreeType-based font drawing 
> librar
> ii  libxinerama1              1:1.0.1-4.1    X11 Xinerama extension library
> ii  libxp6                    1:1.0.0.xsf1-1 X Printing Extension (Xprint) 
> clie
> ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.1-3      X Rendering Extension client 
> libra
> ii  libxt6                    1:1.0.2-2      X11 toolkit intrinsics library
> ii  psmisc                    22.3-1         Utilities that use the proc 
> filesy
> ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3-13     compression library - runtime
> 
> iceweasel recommends no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 

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