Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 03:05:24 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Robert Burmeister <Robert.Burmeister@UToledo.edu> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: devel/glib20 *URGENT* ( updating glib20 to version 2.36.3 invokes bug 833117 which disables recent versions of Firefox and Thunderbird ) Message-ID: <51FF4EB4.3010708@marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <51FF3002.3080809@UToledo.edu> References: <51F9FCD0.5000600@UToledo.edu> <CAN6yY1vrgwtgDK_xN_Jc8GHXzQR=qrWxw=P1tMDujynDaGn=QQ@mail.gmail.com> <51FB1B5A.90302@marcuscom.com> <CAN6yY1sCir3kN61pUsGNFcUXMb%2Bj_tsC893anzTm8jX=VRsz3A@mail.gmail.com> <51FF3002.3080809@UToledo.edu>
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On 8/5/13 12:54 AM, Robert Burmeister wrote: > I mention it as my FireFox 22 fails to launch as described in the bug > report after updating glib20 to version 2.36.3. > > My copy of the Epiphany browser is built on libxul 17.0.7, which still > works, as does Thunderbird 17.0.7. > > > I had finish a system recompile of FreeBSD 9.2 i386 from stable and all > my 1166 ports on July 30th. > > A quick update on July 31st became a problem after running > portsnap fetch update > portsdb -Uu > pkgdb -u > pkgdb -F > > before running > > portupgrade -arR > > as, without having a heads up from UPDATING, I stripped my pkgdb of its > glib20 dependencies. > A few pkgdb -L and pkgdb -F s later, and I am now able to trouble shoot > the issue. Then if you can grab a backtrace in gdb when Firefox crashes, that will help. While this message is critical, it should not trigger a termination. Joe > > I did a portupgrade -af over the weekend, and still have the same problem. > > > On 8/3/2013 2:12 AM, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke >> <marcus@marcuscom.com <mailto:marcus@marcuscom.com>> wrote: >> >> On 8/1/13 9:03 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Robert Burmeister < >> > Robert.Burmeister@utoledo.edu >> <mailto:Robert.Burmeister@utoledo.edu>> wrote: >> > >> >> You do realize, updating glib20 to version 2.36.3 invokes bug >> >> >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/**show_bug.cgi?id=833117<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=833117>; >> >> which disables recent versions of Firefox and Thunderbird? >> >> >> >> Might I suggest chatting with the Mozilla team about their >> progress? >> >> >> > >> > Can anyone confirm that this impacts FreeBSD? Since the issue >> seems to be >> > with the memory allocator in Linux, I am not at all certain that >> it applies >> > to FreeBSD. Things like that are often very OS specific. Even on >> Linux some >> > people are not seeing it. >> > >> >> Yes, the bug affects FreeBSD in that I see the assertion: >> >> (process:15045): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion >> `sys_page_size == 0' failed >> >> However, Firefox starts and seems to work normally for me after that. >> >> I think the problem is actually >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/+bug/1179554 as >> described in the bug above. In this case, it does look very >> Linux-specific. >> >> Thanks, Joe. I have installed the new glib and updated all of the >> dependencies (about 400 of them including libreoffice) and everything >> seem to be working fine including firefox and thunderbird. I do get >> the error, but almost everything runs as it should. >> >> I can't get multimedia/handbrake to build, but I doubt that it is >> related to the glib change. I've not really looked at the problem yet. >> -- >> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer >> E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com <mailto:rkoberman@gmail.com> -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
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