Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:19:55 +0100 From: Rolf Nielsen <listreader@lazlarlyricon.com> To: weif@weif.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: use of menus crashes Firefox? Message-ID: <4D36201B.4060900@lazlarlyricon.com> In-Reply-To: <844o957rei.fsf@maxwell.cjones.org> References: <844o957rei.fsf@maxwell.cjones.org>
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2011-01-18 23:56, Keith Seyffarth skrev: > > OK. This is still being a problem. I've removed Firefox 3.6 from my > system and installed Firefox 3.5. Use of menus doesn't cause 3.5 to > crash, but it sill has problems. On some web sites, the browser dumps > core. For example trying to log in, create an account, or retrieve a > password at forum.parallels.com which leaves this core (as processed > by gdb): > > Core was generated by `firefox-bin'. > Program terminated with signal 12, Bad system call. > #0 0x29d7f16b in ?? () > > > Now, again, this is in Firefox 3.5. That message isn't very informative > to me, but maybe it is helpful to someone else? > > Again, this started after updating GTK on December 18 or so, following > the instructions in /usr/ports/UPDATING > > > Among the things that will cause Firefox to dump core in 3.5 or 3.6 are > visiting some web sites (see above), accepting a signed secure > certificate the first time (once it crashes Firefox, it's not a problem > on subsequent visits), attempting to accept a questionable certificate > (either telling Firefox to accept the certificate permanently or not), > or exiting Firefox. > > In firefox 3.6, anything that generates a menu will also crash the > browser. > > I have tried > So far I have tried the following: > > * Remove the .mozilla directory and start firefox without extensions, > plugins, or customizations > * Force reinstall of Firefox (portupgrade -F) > * Remove and reinstall Firefox > * Force reinstall of the mouse input driver > * Remove and reinstall xorg and components > * Remove and reinstall Fluxbox window manager > * pkg_deleteing all firefox plugins and nspluginwrapper > * Uninstalling Firefox 3.6 and installing Firefox 3.5 (helpful, but not > fixed) > * running portupgrade -aOW again > > > I'm wondering if this can't be fixed short of formatting and starting > over, but I'd really hope to avoid a very M$Windows solution like > that... Any further ideas? > > Keith S. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Are you by any chance overriding CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf? Or perhaps even compiling using a gcc version not in the base system? I had that exact problem with Firefox 3.6 (and with Thunderbird as well) and menus when compiling with gcc45 and/or overriding CFLAGS. It went away when I re-built Firefox (well, actually, I re-built everything, world, kernel and all the ports) using the stock compiler and removed all CFLAGS overrides. Rolf
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