From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Aug 12 13:21:24 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7B6799F63B for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 13:21:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF6D498F for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 13:21:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id CE51B99F63A; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 13:21:24 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDE5B99F639 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 13:21:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from bede.qeng-ho.org (bede.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org", Issuer "fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 72F5F98B for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 13:21:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from arthur.home.qeng-ho.org (arthur.home.qeng-ho.org [172.23.1.2]) by bede.home.qeng-ho.org (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id t7CDCg6P083680 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 14:12:43 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Subject: Re: firefox core-dump on 10.1-RELEASE? References: <20150812002205.GB82089@slackbox.erewhon.home> Cc: freebsd-questions From: Arthur Chance Message-ID: <55CB464A.8070707@qeng-ho.org> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 14:12:42 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 13:21:25 -0000 On 12/08/2015 02:21, pete wright wrote: > On Aug 11, 2015 5:22 PM, "Roland Smith" wrote: >> >> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:08:26PM -0700, pete wright wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I recently upgraded firefox on my 10.1-RELEASE workstation via pkg and >>> now have periodic core dumps. I was wondering if anyone else has >>> observed this behaviour? If not I will attempt to get a debug build >>> created locally and try to reproduce the fault. Here's my info: >> >> Yep, more people have noticed it. >> >>>> uname -ar && pkg info |grep firefox >>> FreeBSD pop.rubicorp.com 10.1-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p10 #0: >>> Wed May 13 06:54:13 UTC 2015 >>> root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 >>> >>> firefox-40.0,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla >> >> A temporary fix is implemented in 40.0_1,1; it works pretty well; have > only >> had one crash since. >> >> But today the port was updated to 40.0_2,1, and 40.0_3,1 which failed to > link >> for me. It seems that firefox is once again churning a little bit, as it >> sometimes does. >> >> Since firefox is quite a big build, I tend to make a package of the > installed >> version before upgrading, so I can always go back if it works. >> > Thanks Roland for the reply. > > Fwiw to close this thread out - here is the fix mentioned in the previous > twitter > > "use about:config and set > layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled > to false." > > This has done the trick for me so far. Just had a crash with that change done. However, FF lasted about 6 hours, whereas it was lasting less than an hour before. -- Those who do not learn from computing history are doomed to GOTO 1