Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 15:42:00 +0000 From: Grzegorz Junka <list1@gjunka.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox 47.0 hangs when accessing cnn.com Message-ID: <afd12153-ebd7-bc5b-3ec9-8d51771b0c07@gjunka.com> In-Reply-To: <20160609195222.GA10181@rancor.immure.com> References: <20160606182103.GB55688@rancor.immure.com> <673bea9d889d59900f4a145334b07ca7@cyberbotx.com> <20160608000701.GA944@rancor.immure.com> <CAN6yY1t8yKv=TBqswnByKyvV4thHEQvgs1Pg_w14xgKXqtY%2BKA@mail.gmail.com> <20160608130741.GB944@rancor.immure.com> <20160608230452.GC944@rancor.immure.com> <CAN6yY1vXo_msofLB=DfTkkqF_RTKQHzT3spS_r-okiyeQ06rHw@mail.gmail.com> <be669368-23d4-a173-6ecc-7a80442c2178@hiwaay.net> <e492f197-3789-0c4c-48d7-147f820e3aa3@gjunka.com> <20160609195222.GA10181@rancor.immure.com>
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On 09/06/2016 19:52, Bob Willcox wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 01:21:06PM +0000, Grzegorz Junka wrote: >> On 09/06/2016 13:10, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >>> On 06/09/16 00:10, Kevin Oberman wrote: >>>> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Bob Willcox < <kob6558@gmail.com> >>>> bob@immure.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Ok, I finally figured out how to get portdowngrade to give me a >>>>> 46.0.1,1 >>>>> version of firefox and built & installed it. Unfortunately, that didn't >>>>> solve >>>>> my hanging firefox scripts problem so apparently it's likely to be >>>>> caused >>>>> by >>>>> something else that got updated when I did the portupgrade on June >>>>> 4th. Not >>>>> sure where to go from here... >>>>> >>>>> Bob >>>>> >>>> No easy answers. I, also have no issues with 47.0 on my system and there >>>> are no other reports of the problem you are having. So where to look? >>>> >>>> What version of FreeBSD are you running? On what platform? i386 or >>>> amd64 or >>>> something else. Most people are running amd64. If ir is another >>>> platform, >>>> issues are less likely to have been seen. Is it 10.3 or something else. >>>> >>>> Unless someone else has a better suggestion, I'd re-install all >>>> dependencies. Older versions are more likely to have issues.I use >>>> portmaster, but I know portupgrade can also do this. Or use packages. >>>> It's >>>> a lot faster when you don't need any options on the ports. >>>> >>>> Other than that, I have no good ideas other than to re-install >>>> everything. >>>> And that may not fix it as it is possible that it's a memory or other >>>> hardware issue. >>>> >>>> I hope someone else has a better idea than I. >>>> -- >>>> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired >>>> E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list >>>> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports >>>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >>> +1 on packages, *much* faster & same end result if you have no special >>> compile options .... >>> >>> >> I second that and repeat what I said before. If you want to compile your >> own packages with custom options then fine, but do it properly with >> either poudriere or synth. Otherwise, just use the FreeBSD generic ones. >> Portupgrade and portmaster are fine but only as long as they work, and >> from my experience sooner or later they always stop working and from >> then there is going to be a path of misery, wasted time and broken >> applications. > Well, I've compiled and reinstalled all of the packages on the system with > synth with the same result. BTW, from what I could tell, synth forced me to > remove any local configuration files that I had for the half a dozen or so > ports prior to allowing me to to the 'synth upgrade-system' run. > > I don't know what is going on/wrong with firefox, but it seems to be getting > hung up with some scripts that it tries to run. Since I replaced the version > 47 of firefox with the previous 46 version and the problem persisted, I > suspect that the issue may not be in firefox at all. It's just the victim. > That sounds bad indeed. Have you tried to reinstall using the official pkg repository (not compiled on your machine)? BTW Firefox 47 just started crashing today for me. Nothing to do with scripts, some exception in one of the *.c files (according to the popup). I am now creating a new batch of packages with poudriere and will try to upgrade to a newer version. Grzegorz
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