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Date:      Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:28:22 -0500
From:      Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
To:        Beat Gaetzi <beat@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-gecko@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Call for tester/reviewer: SeaMonkey 2.0
Message-ID:  <20091128202822.GA41724@in-addr.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B0BD67F.7060406@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 01:50:07PM +0100, Beat Gaetzi wrote:
> Gary Palmer wrote:
> > Martin Wilke wrote:
> >> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 04:37:40PM -0500, Gary Palmer wrote:
> >>  
> >>> On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 11:21:22PM +0100, Beat Gaetzi wrote:
> >>>    
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> A few days ago SeaMonkey 2.0 has been released. To install SeaMonkey
> >>>> 2.0
> >>>> a modified bsd.gecko.mk is needed. Therefore we are not able to commit
> >>>> it to the ports tree until the tree is unfreezed. So now we are looking
> >>>> for tester/reviewer of the SeaMonkey 2.0 port.
> >>>>
> >>>> The port is available in our SVN repository:
> >>>> # svn co
> >>>> http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/svn/freebsd-gecko/branches/experimental/www/seamonkey-devel
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> The modified bsd.gecko.mk could be downloaded here:
> >>>> http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/svn/freebsd-gecko/branches/experimental/Mk/bsd.gecko.mk
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> A screenshot of SeaMonkey 2.0 running on FreeBSD is available here:
> >>>> http://tmp.chruetertee.ch/seamonkey20.png
> >>>>
> >>>> Many thanks to Florian Smeets, Andreas Tobler and miwi@ for their work.
> >>>>       
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I installed the test port on my FreeBSD 6.4 desktop (don't ask) and
> >>> while
> >>> initial indications looked positive, the browser reproducibly crashed
> >>> when accessing:
> >>>
> >>> - http://www.slashdot.org/
> >>> - http://www.bhphotovideo.com/
> >>>
> >>> The former I don't care about.  The latter I do.  I don't entirely trust
> >>> the backtraces, but one crash seemed to be in js_ConcatStrings in
> >>> libmozjs.so.
> >>> I tried enabling debugging symbols in the 'make config' section and
> >>> rebuilding, but the libmozjs.so library was still stripped before
> >>> installation so I wasn't able to do more investigation.
> >>>     
> >>
> >>
> >> Kernel module "sem" was loaded?
> >>   
> > 
> > Hi Martin,
> > 
> > Its not in kldstat but apparently it is in my kernel configuration
> > 
> > % kldload sysvsem
> > kldload: can't load sysvsem: File exists
> > 
> > options         SYSVSHM                 # SYSV-style shared memory
> > options         SYSVMSG                 # SYSV-style message queues
> > options         SYSVSEM                 # SYSV-style semaphores
> > 
> > I also ended up clearing out my .mozilla directory (after taking a
> > backup) and also the contents of /usr/local/lib/seamonkey, reinstalling
> > seamonkey 2.0, and the crashes persisted so I do not believe it was
> > something left behind, although I may have missed something.
> 
> It looks like the sem kernel module is not available on FreeBSD 6. Could
> you please add "options P1003_1B_SEMAPHORES" to your kernel config as
> newer firefox and probably also seamonkey versions require POSIX-style
> semaphores.

Hi,

I've recompiled my kernel with P1003_1B_SEMAPHORES, but seamonkey still
crashes going to www.bhphotovideo.com.

Thanks,

Gary



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