Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:27:30 -0700 From: Keith Seyffarth <weif@weif.net> To: Rob Farmer <rfarmer@predatorlabs.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: use of menus crashes Firefox? Message-ID: <84y66foust.fsf@maxwell.cjones.org> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinobk2wF=CG362y2=Q3zaEdPLFRSqQxk1GwYb9n@mail.gmail.com> (message from Rob Farmer on Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:05:17 -0800) References: <844o957rei.fsf@maxwell.cjones.org> <90697FB1-79FD-4766-A01B-B06672D1EB7C@mac.com> <84y66h6491.fsf@maxwell.cjones.org> <DE2A236B-F560-4300-B177-9620C405CE85@mac.com> <84vd1l61uf.fsf@maxwell.cjones.org> <AANLkTi=G-fWc06hQTyxdMTJkb%2Bg98it0uOFGZdkpdO3i@mail.gmail.com> <84pqrt5xet.fsf@maxwell.cjones.org> <8F60CE40-A466-4917-AE10-B63F4026B0D9@mac.com> <84wrm029cb.fsf@maxwell.cjones.org> <89C5FBDD-5D13-4A94-97CE-CCF9D7056CA2@mac.com> <847hdzqe6i.fsf@maxwell.cjones.org> <AANLkTinobk2wF=CG362y2=Q3zaEdPLFRSqQxk1GwYb9n@mail.gmail.com>
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> So have you tried this? > > ====================================================================== > > Firefox 3.6 and HTML5 > > Certain functions used to display HTML5 elements need the sem module. > > If your Firefox crashes with the following message while viewing a > HTML5 page: > "Bad system call (core dumped)" > > you need to load the sem module (kldload sem). > > To load sem on every boot put the following into your > /boot/loader.conf: > sem_load="YES" > > ====================================================================== I hadn't, but the issues I'm seeing don't seem to be related to HTML 5. It also persists to Firefox 3.5 in addition to 3.6. I would expect that if clicking on a menu in Firefox 3.6 required this. I did make that change to see if it helps at some point in the future... Right now I'm updating /usr/src to try a new kernel. Keith
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