Comment 4 for bug 401055

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

I have my default browser set to firefox-3.5, so when apport tries to launch a browser to display the Launchpad bug filing form, it opens firefox-3.5. The problem is that (about 80% of the time), it crashes with a BadWindow error, e.g.:

perseus:[~] ubuntu-bug firefox-3.5
perseus:[~]
Gdk-ERROR **: The program 'firefox-3.5' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 19 error_code 3 request_code 20 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.)
aborting...

If I keep trying, it eventually succeeds. I'm not able to reproduce the problem using "firefox-3.5 about:mozilla" so it may have something to do with the way that apport is invoking it.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jul 18 12:19:56 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-3.19-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-3-generic x86_64