Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:45:38 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reporting problems with Firefox (?) Message-ID: <1182408338.68646.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <53094.1182381920@monkeys.com> References: <53094.1182381920@monkeys.com>
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--=-dciD15gIFVMCJiadYBh4 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 16:25 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > In message <1182319952.60352.32.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>, you wrote: >=20 > >> Problem(s) summary: > >>=3D20 > >> I've just upgraded my main work/desktop system from (ancient) FreeBSD = 4.1=3D > >1 > >> to 6.2-RELEASE, and thus, switched from some ancient rev of Mozilla to > >> Firefox, and I'm having some really serious problems with it. > > > >I hope you rebuilt all of your ports when you did this. >=20 > Well, I think that's not a relevant quiestion in my case because when _I_ > do an ``upgrade'' I always start from a clean disk, do a fresh install of > the (new) OS that I want, and then I move all of my ``user'' files over t= o > the freshly installed system. >=20 > I've found that it works better to do this, rather than trying to actuall= y > install a new OS releasee over / on-top-of an older one. >=20 > So anyway, yes, I end up with a whole new ports tree this way. >=20 > >>=3D20 > >> In particular, it locks up (and pegs CPU usage to 100%) each time I ei= the=3D > >r > >> (a) try to download a file, to disk, from any web site or (b) try to > >> switch back and forth a few times between the cute icons at the top of > >> the little pop-up window that comes up when one tries to adjust "Prefe= ren=3D > >ces". > > > >I don't see this here. You should follow the steps listed at > >http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/bugging.html to get a backtrace from > >the running process when it pegs the CPU. >=20 > Well, thank you, I guess, however the page you pointed me to doesn't > contain any information on getting a stacak trace. It does however conta= in > a link to this page: >=20 > http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/bugging.html >=20 > which tries to descrube the process, but it notes that first, I must get = a > hold of a version of fixrfox that's been compiled with debugging symbols. > (I know all about this, as I used to work on the GDB debugger quite a lot= .) >=20 > So now, my big question is: Where/How can I get hold of a binary of Fire= fox > (1.5.whatever) that has the debugging symbols in it? >=20 > I'd also like to know if I _must_ get a stack trace the way that's descri= bed > on the page I give a link to above, or if I could instead just run the th= ing > (Firefox) in GDB and get it that way. >=20 > Lastly, if I try to debug it via GDB, will that even work? The last time= I > checked... which I admit was perhaps 3+ years ago... GDB didn't undertand > threads properly on FreeBSD, making debugging a thread-based programs wit= h > GDB essentially impossible. Debugging is the only way to go as I cannot reproduce this problem ,and you are the only one complaining of it. That said, you might try www/firefox (which is Firefox 2.0). You may have better luck that with 1.5. > I don't remember ever installing anything from the /usr/ports tree for th= is. >=20 > I believe that I just pulled the pre-compiled package "firefox-1.5.0.8,1" > off of the install CDs. Anyway, in /var/db/pkg I do see an entrit called > firefox-1.5.0.8,1. Try using ports instead of packages. >=20 > OK, so let's say that I want to try the linux-firefox version. I must > ask this: Do I first need to replace all of the X11 related stuff, i.e. > "upgrade" from X.org 6.9.0 to X.org 7.2 first? You definitely should upgrade all your ports before reporting problems. That is step one in the previous URL I sent you. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-dciD15gIFVMCJiadYBh4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGeh6Qb2iPiv4Uz4cRAgFsAJ0XOnjRU+QQ13uVc5+/rzbYqdRGsQCgnLiL ShWjVC45A5BeYEsrqWD6ubU= =5LxV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-dciD15gIFVMCJiadYBh4--
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