Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:20:09 GMT From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/105589: Firefox 2.0 segfaults when saving more than one file per session Message-ID: <200612121820.kBCIK9XZ003712@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/105589; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Micah <micahjon@ywave.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/105589: Firefox 2.0 segfaults when saving more than one file per session Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:08:46 -0500 --=-I4eeN826F7DjImapxpoR Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 19:01 -0800, Micah wrote: > I've installed a complete Gnome system for further testing. I have=20 > confirmed that gedit, eog, and epiphany (and probably any gnome based=20 > app) all show the bug when launched from KDE. GIMP, PAN2, and OOo do not=20 > show the bug. This was all tested from a freshly created user account=20 > with an initially empty home directory. The bug does not show up while=20 > in a Gnome session (not sure how Indigo managed a crash - maybe he was=20 > running some KDE software in his Gnome session?) It appears to be a=20 > general Gnome/KDE incompatibility and has nothing to do with the Gecko=20 > applications directly. I have isolated the cause of the crash. The problem stems from KDE setting XDG_DATA_DIRS in the environment. It sets a value with two instances of /usr/local/share. This seems to cause memory corruption, and leads to a crash. If you reset XDG_DATA_DIRS to :/usr/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/X11R6/share:/usr/X11R6/share/gnome:/us= r/local/share/gnome Firefox will no longer crash. This is a two-part bug. KDE is clearly setting a bad value. It should be adding /usr/local/share/gnome to the XDG_DATA_DIRS, but instead it duplicates an element. Even so, XDG should not add a duplicate element. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-I4eeN826F7DjImapxpoR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFfvAub2iPiv4Uz4cRAvKaAJ42pJ9WsIbQrf8jxxHy1+VpuXYfKACfX0yz 6G53augAqo7NqYf7NTOoOFM= =q1Cx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-I4eeN826F7DjImapxpoR--
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