Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:50:36 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Jorge Medina <jorge@bsdchile.cl> Cc: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firefox3.6 dumps core - bus error Message-ID: <20100209215036.GB41851@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <28d0e6b81002091155n5ebbbc30jda67d4910338f403@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100209161513.GA91694@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <28d0e6b81002091155n5ebbbc30jda67d4910338f403@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 04:55:09PM -0300, Jorge Medina wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > > On 9.0-current ia64, firefox-3.6,1: > > > > TZAV> firefox3 & > > [6] 91741 > > TZAV> Bus error (core dumped) > > > > [6] Exit 138 firefox3 > > TZAV> gdb /usr/local/bin/firefox3 ./firefox-bin.core > > GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] > > Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are > > welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. > > Type "show copying" to see the conditions. > > There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. > > This GDB was configured as "ia64-marcel-freebsd"..."/usr/local/bin/firefox3": not in executable format: File format not recognized > > > > Core was generated by `firefox-bin'. > > Program terminated with signal 10, Bus error. > > #0 0x2000000041082fe0 in ?? () > > (gdb) bt > > #0 0x2000000041082fe0 in ?? () > > #1 0x20000000412e20c0 in ?? () > > Previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?) > > (gdb) > > > > > > Please advise > > anton > > > > echo sem_load="YES" > /boot/loader.conf > reboot I've options P1003_1B_SEMAPHORES in the kernel config file already. This is a dual cpu box with SMP kernel. It seems to crash only on "heavy" sites, e.g. jpost.com. I've seen some posts in the last couple of days where the problem was attributed to SMP. I can confirm that firefox3.6 runs fine on UP sparc64. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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