WebPositive Crashes; core files attached

[MichaelCrawford]

the crashes happen only occasionally.

The first one I was running a VM with only 512 MB of memory. I visited ​http://soylentnews.org/. At the top of the window was printed:

302 Moved Permanently nginx

then below that the Soylent News homepage was rendered correctly. WebPositive crashed immediately after that.

The second crash my VM had 4 GB. I had Soylent News open in my first tab and Facebook in my second. The crash happened a while after opening FaceBook, but I'm afraid I don't recall what I was doing when the crash occurred.

In both cases, I had git running a full anonymous checkout of the Haiku source code. A possible problem may be that git uses a lot of memory when checking out large codebases; perhaps WebPositive fails to check for a NULL returned from malloc. (In C++, that should throw an exception.)

Nightly gcc2 hybrid 50336.

[MichaelCrawford]

Both core files are far too large to attach, even when compressed with bzip2. I'll host them on my own site then post their links here.

[pulkomandy]

for the record, the WebKit code is built with -fno-exceptions as exceptions would interact badly with some low level code (I think the javascript interpreter).

Regarding core files: it would be nice to have both the text report and the core file if possible (the text report is handy for quickly looking at the backtrace and seeing if it's a duplicate of some other ticket). Opening core files requires running Haiku, which I'm not at the moment (at work).

[MichaelCrawford]

I'm having some trouble uploading the core files to my server. scp stalls after a few megabytes, and webpositive crashes when attempting to upload to google drive. Maybe dropbox will work.

[pulkomandy]

I would suggest netcat as a simple way to copy files to a server. Or FTP, or rsync. Or, you can run PoorMan to share the files from the Haiku machine with HTTP and download them from elsewhere.

As far as I know, dropbox is currently not working in Web+ (crashes in WebSocket), nor in Qupzilla (won't login, says browser is too old).

[waddlesplash]

No reports or core files, and site doesn't crash here.

[nielx]

Remove milestone for tickets with status = closed and resolution != fixed