From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 21 01:05:18 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 48EFD106566B for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:05:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfarmer@predatorlabs.net) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 032488FC08 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:05:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws9 with SMTP id 9so543160vws.13 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:05:17 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.189.5 with SMTP id dc5mr724858vcb.119.1295571917185; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:05:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.220.59.69 with HTTP; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:05:17 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [128.95.133.184] In-Reply-To: <847hdzqe6i.fsf@maxwell.cjones.org> 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> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:05:17 -0800 Message-ID: From: Rob Farmer To: weif@weif.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 01:05:18 -0000 On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 16:43, 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 optio= n: >> >> options =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 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? I suspect > that would not have the desired end result of a running computer... > > Or should I just build the kernel with what's currently in /usr/src? > So have you tried this? =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 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=3D"YES" =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D --=20 Rob Farmer