Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 23:04:31 -0700 From: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Gerard Samuel <gsam@trini0.org> Subject: Re: TESTERS WANTED: Possible fix to Firefox crash Message-ID: <200410162304.32524.krinklyfig@spymac.com> In-Reply-To: <4171A526.2060108@trini0.org> References: <1097901780.14774.15.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <200410161329.09195.krinklyfig@spymac.com> <4171A526.2060108@trini0.org>
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On Saturday 16 October 2004 03:48 pm, Gerard Samuel <gsam@trini0.org> wrote: > Joshua Tinnin wrote: > >On Saturday 16 October 2004 08:17 am, Kirill Ponomarew > ><krion@voodoo.oberon.net> wrote: > >>On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 10:44:54AM -0400, Gerard Samuel wrote: > >>>Im going to have to burst your bubble. > >>>Im running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9, and applied your patch, > >>>and Firefox crashes on your test site, and on my own site (of > >>> which it didn't before the patch). > >>>Just to make sure, Im going to reinstall the previous version of > >>>Firefox, just to make > >>>sure that it doesn't crash on my own site. > >>>I'll report back when I get it reinstalled... > >> > >>It still crashes also here on 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9, even with Joe's > >>patch. I can remove /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox before installing, but > >> I don't think it should help. > > > >Preliminary results seem to indicate that crashes are only an issue > > for 5.2.1 with this patch, which most likely isn't worth testing > > (no offense), as 5.2.1 has been upgraded to 5.3-BETA, which is the > > branch being developed for the STABLE release. Since 5.2.1 isn't > > being developed anymore, you might want to try upgrading to one of > > the BETAs and testing the patch. > > I posted a few hours ago on what I did to get it working on 5.2.1. Right. OK, it might have been your options, as you said you deleted /var/db/ports/firefox and it stopped crashing. I'm still curious to know if it were being caused by that or the 5.2.1 version, but glad you got it working. - jt
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