From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 21 00:50:48 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10AF210656D8 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:50:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout028.mac.com (asmtpout028.mac.com [17.148.16.103]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E61FD8FC1F for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:50:47 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.209.4.71]) by asmtp028.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Exchange Server 7u4-20.01 64bit (built Nov 21 2010)) with ESMTPSA id <0LFC00GVPL0MK250@asmtp028.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:50:47 -0800 (PST) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.2.15,1.0.148,0.0.0000 definitions=2011-01-20_09:2011-01-21, 2011-01-20, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=1 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=6.0.2-1010190000 definitions=main-1101200152 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <847hdzqe6i.fsf@maxwell.cjones.org> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:50:46 -0800 Message-id: References: <844o957rei.fsf@maxwell.cjones.org> <90697FB1-79FD-4766-A01B-B06672D1EB7C@mac.com> <84y66h6491.fsf@maxwell.cjones.org> <84vd1l61uf.fsf@maxwell.cjones.org> <84pqrt5xet.fsf@maxwell.cjones.org> <8F60CE40-A466-4917-AE10-B63F4026B0D9@mac.com> <84wrm029cb.fsf@maxwell.cjones.org> <89C5FBDD-5D13-4A94-97CE-CCF9D7056CA2@mac.com> <847hdzqe6i.fsf@maxwell.cjones.org> To: weif@weif.net X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: use of menus crashes Firefox? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:50:48 -0000 On Jan 20, 2011, at 4:43 PM, Keith Seyffarth wrote: >> Doing a "bt" would have been helpful right about there, but I think I've got enough info to suggest rebuilding your kernel with the following option: >> >> options P1003_1B_SEMAPHORES > > thanks again, Chuck. > > I can easily get the bt if needed, but I looked into rebuilding the > kernel. It looks like I need to first update the source tree. I think I > can see how to do that with cvsup, but if I do that, am I going to be > trying to build an 8.3 kernel to run in a 7.2 environment? Nope, not if you cvsup or use csup (which comes with the system already, most likely) to RELENG_7_2 or RELENG_7, the latter of which would give you 7-STABLE, which is approaching 7.4 nowadays. > I suspect that would not have the desired end result of a running computer... Actually, you can run a 7.x userland under a 8.x kernel. That's how a major version update of FreeBSD from source is supposed to work. :-) > Or should I just build the kernel with what's currently in /usr/src? That should also work. But it's beneficial to update your sources for the version you wish to run, since you will gain security changes which have been made since.... Regards, -- -Chuck