From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 16 17:15:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 120EE16A4CE for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 17:15:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.202.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B455543D49 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 17:15:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gsam@trini0.org) Received: from hivemind.trini0.org (trini0.org[65.34.205.195]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2004101617150701200ft04ce>; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 17:15:08 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.3] (gladiator.trini0.org [192.168.0.3]) by hivemind.trini0.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64D94D2; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:15:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4171571F.8040505@trini0.org> Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:15:11 -0400 From: Gerard Samuel User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20041015) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Marcus Clarke References: <1097901780.14774.15.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <417133E6.9060409@trini0.org> In-Reply-To: <417133E6.9060409@trini0.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TESTERS WANTED: Possible fix to Firefox crash X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 17:15:09 -0000 Gerard Samuel wrote: > Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > >> Got Firefox? Got crashes? Apply the patch at >> http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/firefox.diff, and see if the crashes >> go away. >> >> To apply the patch, do the following: >> >> # cd /usr/ports/www >> # patch -p < /path/to/firefox.diff >> >> Then upgrade Firefox. You can use http://www.marcuscom.com/xxx.html to >> test to see if the crash is still present, but I would prefer you to >> test some other known crashing sites as well. Thanks. >> > Im going to have to burst your bubble. > Im running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9, and applied your patch, > and Firefox crashes on your test site, and on my own site (of which it > didn't before the patch). > Just to make sure, Im going to reinstall the previous version of > Firefox, just to make > sure that it doesn't crash on my own site. > I'll report back when I get it reinstalled... > _____________________________________________ Success... After I reinstalled the previous version, Firefox was still crashing. So I reapplied the patch, and removed /var/db/ports/firefox, and reinstalled it. Now it doesn't crash on my site, or at Joe's test site (dont know if the options had anything to do with it)... Good job. Thanks