Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:44:44 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: www/firefox: Firefox 3.6 crashes, Firefox 3.5.7 not Message-ID: <20100209094444.GA31749@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <4B712DCE.7030500@zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <4B701269.9070703@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20100208172033.112629f7@ernst.jennejohn.org> <4B706038.3030603@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <a0777e081002081342v3b8294f5p96a04d0b3fffda33@mail.gmail.com> <4B712DCE.7030500@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 09:41:34AM +0000, O. Hartmann wrote: > On 02/08/10 21:42, Eitan Adler wrote: > >I have no idea if this is related but from pkg-message > >Firefox 3.6 and HTML5 > > > >Certain functions used to display HTML5 elements need the sem module. > > > >If your Firefox crashes with the following message while viewing a > >HTML5 page: > >"Bad system call (core dumped)" > > > >you need to load the sem module (kldload sem). > > > >To load sem on every boot put the following into your > >/boot/loader.conf: > >sem_load="YES" > > > >On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:04 PM, O. Hartmann > ><ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de <mailto:ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>> > >wrote: > > > > On 02/08/10 16:20, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > > > On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:32:25 +0000 > > "O. Hartmann"<ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de > > <mailto:ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>> wrote: > > > > > > Today, I upgraded Firefox 3.5.7 (built yesterday) to > > Firefox 3.6. After > > deleting ~/.mozilla (after I did a buckup, of course), I > > tried a fresh > > start of 'firefox3'. After firefox showed up, I realized > > that no > > option-field (File, Extras etc) can be used, they are dead > > and after a > > few seconds I clicked them, firefox3 is crashing. > > > > Since I recompiled firefox 3.5.7 yesterday I was wondering > > if this is > > due to some 'false' lib or dependency. Since I figured > > that I have > > similar trouble with Thunderbird 3.0.1 after I installed > > it, I suspect a > > faulty library causing this behaviour. With Thunderbird 3, > > I never > > solved the problem although I tried to rebuild everything with > > thunderbird via 'portmaster -f'. I'll did this with > > firefox 3.6 also, > > but with no success. > > > > The crashing is observed on two nearly identical SMP > > FreeBSD 8.0/amd64 > > STABLE boxes (make world of today), up-to-date ports. The > > crash is NOT > > observed on my private oldish UP box, nearly the same > > setup, OS at the > > same revision and ports up to date as of yesterday. Maybe > > this could be > > a hint. > > > > Any hints or suggestions? > > > > > > Try doing "ldd /usr/local/lib/firefox3/firefox-bin" and see if > > anything > > looks weird. > > > > I did - and there is nothing weird. > > > > I checked the installed libraries and they are all rebuild when > > rebuilding necessary dependencies for firefox3. > > > > > > You can porbably ignore > > /usr/local/lib/firefox3/firefox-bin: > > libxul.so => not found (0x0) > > libmozjs.so => not found (0x0) > > libxpcom.so => not found (0x0) > > because run-mozilla.sh sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include > > /usr/local/lib/firefox3 where these libraries are installed. > > > > I merely deleted my old firefox 3.6 and reinstalled from the > > port (on > > 9-CURRENT AMD64) and haven't seen any problems. But of > > course, I've > > been running various incarnations of 3.6 for a while and may > > have gotten > > all the dependencies already correctly installed. > > > > --- > > Gary Jennejohn > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> > > mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > > <mailto:freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org>" > > > > > > I tried again, left the 'make config'-options as they were set by > > default, delete/backuped .mozilla in my home and they restartet > > firefox3. Nothing better than previously seen. Try hitting Button > > 'Tools' at the top menu bar gives a menu after several seconds, > > then firefox crashes/core dumps. > > > > Oliver > > > > > SysV smaphore (or sem?) are built into my kernel by default. The > error/system message when crashing is > > socket(): Protocol not supported > Illegal instruction (core dumped) > > and a core is dumped. Sounds more like your system doesn't have IPv6 support enabled. There was a recent thread here on the lists about the latest Thunderbird doing the same thing on a system/kernel without IPv6, and there's no way to disable IPv6 support in the software (it's all hard-coded/no --disable-ipv6 flag, etc.). -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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