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Date:      Wed, 1 Jul 2009 21:54:03 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        Florian Smeets <flo@kasimir.com>
Cc:        freebsd-gecko@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: firefox35 dumps core on 7.2-STABLE/amd64
Message-ID:  <20090701095403.GA26313@osiris.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <4A4B2848.8060606@kasimir.com>
References:  <20090701084636.GA79640@osiris.chen.org.nz> <4A4B2848.8060606@kasimir.com>

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On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 11:11:36AM +0200, Florian Smeets wrote:
> On 01.07.09 10:46, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> >Hi,
> 
> Hi,
> 
> >
> >I'm running 7.2-STABLE/amd64 updated on Sat Jun 27 08:22:54 NZST 2009.
> >I've just installed firefox-3.5 from a recent ports tree, and I'm getting
> >a core dump with:
> >
> >     Bad system call (core dumped)
> >
> >Firefox 3.5 starts up okay, and displays the "Updated to Firefox 3.5"
> >window, but crashes shortly after.
> >
> >I've attached the output from Firefox 3.5 compiled with DEBUG on.
> 
> This is just a guess, but we had other problems with firefox 3.5 and 
> HTML5, crashing with "Bad system call" when the sem module was not loaded.
> 
> Could you please load sem (kldload sem) and try again.

Thanks for this. I appear to have missed the note in pkg-message for
some reason. With "sem" kldloaded, firefox 3.5 is up and running.

> Did you by chance view at a HTML5 page when the crash occurred?

The only page in view was the "Welcome to Firefox 3.5" page. It looks
like "kldload sem" is now a must rather than an advisory...

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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