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To: Ray Qiu <ray_qiu@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: mozilla and 4.2-RELEASE
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Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 22:17:09 +0200 (IST)
From: Roman Shterenzon <roman@harmonic.co.il>
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Quoting Ray Qiu <ray_qiu@yahoo.com>:

> Yes.  I had the exact same problem with the XFree86
> 4.0.

The problem exists in the vanilla FreeBSD 4.2 with XFree86-3.3.6 
and doesn't exist in the binary built under 4.1-STABLE (not even 4.1.1-STABLE)
at home, where I've XFree86-4 (which was also built under 4.1-STABLE)

> --- Roman Shterenzon <roman@harmonic.co.il> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Yesterday I installed vanilla 4.2 (the second
> > revision of iso image) on a new
> > computer, and then, after updating the ports tree I
> > did:
> > cd /usr/ports/www/mozilla; make install
> > several hours later it finished and installed the
> > mozilla package.
> > Running it produces a segmentation fault, running
> > mozilla-bin even creates
> > a core file. I looked at it, and seems that perhaps
> > the stack was mutilated,
> > since I didn't see anything unusual there (I can
> > post it later, if anyone is
> > interested).
> > Now, at home I'm running mozilla which I've compiled
> > under 4.1-STABLE and I'm
> > runnning 4.2-RELEASE, so, since no patches to
> > mozilla port were added since
> > then, I guess that it's something wrong either with
> > the compiler or linker (or
> > both). Like I said, I run old binary under
> > 4.2-RELEASE, and it works ok, so
> > the run-time environment is ok (libc_r, etc.).
> > Did anyone notice this misbehavior? Does it have
> > something to do with the "mysql
> > coredumps" thread we've seen here? Should I try the
> > patch obrien posted?
> > Ideas?
> > P.S. The only other difference is that at home I use
> > XFree86-4 and there it was
> > XFree86-3.3.6 which came with the distribution,
> > however, the failure was in the
> > mozilla internal function(s), so I doubt that it's
> > relevant.
> > 
> > --Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and
> > Consultant
> > [ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel:
> > +972-9-9522361 ]
> > 
> > 
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--Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant
[ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ]


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