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Date:      Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:22:06 -0800
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        weif@weif.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?
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Hi--

On Jan 19, 2011, at 7:37 AM, Keith Seyffarth wrote:
>> Enter "run", or "c" for continue.  If and when Firefox crashes, you
>> will be able to gain more useful information....
> 
> That does provide a bunch more information. Thank you.
[ ... ]
> Program received signal SIGSYS, Bad system call.
> 0x29d7f16b in ksem_init () from /lib/libc.so.7
> (gdb) c
> Continuing.

Doing a "bt" would have been helpful right about there, but I think I've got enough info to suggest rebuilding your kernel with the following option:

options         P1003_1B_SEMAPHORES

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck




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