Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:47:12 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox 3.6.X and Thunderbird 3.0.X crashing with Radeon graphics on FBSD 8.0-STABLE SMP/sm64 box Message-ID: <4BAAA480.5060307@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <20100324150653.3a447c98@ernst.jennejohn.org> References: <4BAA1478.9020201@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20100324150653.3a447c98@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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On 03/24/10 15:06, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:32:40 +0000 > "O. Hartmann"<ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > >> Since the introduction of Thunderbird 3.0 and Firefox 3.6 I see >> spontanous crashes/coredumps of both thunderbird and firefox. Interingly >> Firefox 3.5.X works well on he same platform. >> >> The platform is a FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE/amd64 (r205536: Tue Mar 23 22:19:04 >> CET 2010), SMP box with 8GB of RAM, QuadCore Intel Q6600 on a P35-based >> motherboard. >> >> Thunderbird 3 crashes rarely compared to Firefox 3. The longer the >> application thunderbird runs, the higher the likelyhood the app crashes >> and vanishes. Sometimes this happens immediately after starting >> thunderbird, sometimes it takes its few minutes or half an hour. >> >> Firefox 3 is sensitive to its pull-down menus or requester showing up in >> some situations. I can provoke a crash by clicking onto a pull-down-menu >> in firefox 3, it immediately dumps a core. >> > > If you suspect the graphics card's driver is at fault then I would try > linux-opera or even linux-firefox and see whether it also dies when you > use a drop-down menu. > > Another possibility would be to set hw.physmem to say 3G or 4G in > loader.conf and see whether that affects thunderbird/firefox. Who > knows, there may some weird problem caused by all that memory? That > would a fairly quick and cheap way to test this. > > -- > Gary Jennejohn You're right, I'll test this as soon as I'm back in my lab. Oliver Hartmann
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