This is a problem for geckodriver and for anything else that's using marionette to control the browser (e.g. various test harnesses including wpt). If we don't shut down the browser gracefully we lose out on the ability to do various things that depend on clean shutdown (certainly leak logging, perhaps code coverage). Marionette has a method to invoke shutdown, but sending the response races with closing the marionette connection, so it isn't reliable. Signalling the process with SIGTERM would be the obvious solution, except for this bug. So we either need a way to ensure that the marionette response is sent before the corresponding socket is closed, or a fix here.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/73536 Title: MASTER Firefox crashes on instant X server shutdown Status in Mozilla Firefox: In Progress Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in firefox-3.0 package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Firefox crashes when X server is forcefully torn down (e.g. by pressing ctrl-alt-backspace) and a crash report gets generated on next login. (Original Report: I've reproduced it once on my machine with the following steps. With, oh, about 5 tabs open, I just pressed ctrl-alt-backspace, logged back in when the X server restarted, and FF crashed with a bug report when Gnome tried to restore the session. It's not terribly important, I don't think anyone does this very often, but maybe it'll be helpful. ) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/73536/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
