Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 14:28:52 +0200 From: Peter <pmc@citylink.dinoex.sub.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: 12.2 Firefox immediate crash "exiting due to channel error" Message-ID: <20201015122852.GA79648@gate.oper.dinoex.org>
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Hi all, I was forced to upgrade 11.4 -> 12.2, as QT5 reqires openssl 1.1.1. I did a full rebuild from source as of this: 12.2-RC2 FreeBSD 12.2-RC2 #11 r366648M#N1055:1078 (local patches applied - some published via sendbug 10 or 12 years ago) I did a full rebuild of ALL ports from source, as of 2020Q4, Revision: 552058. I verified all files in /usr/local were newly written. Then I removed COMPAT_FREEBSD11. Firefox (firefox-esr 78.3.1_3,1) reproducibly crashes immediate at startup with some "exiting due to channel error". This is solved by putting COMPAT_FREEBSD11 back in (after the better part of a day spent with kernel builds while halving the diffs between GENERIC and mine). I found some comments, but they do not elaborate on the issue, e.g: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233028#c13 (that's two years ago and concerns 12.0-PRERELEASE!) Finally I found this: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23100 "The Rust ecosystem currently uses pre-ino64 syscalls, so building lang/rust without COMPAT_FREEBSD11 is not going to work." It seems, *RUNNING* rust-built stuff w/o COMPAT11 is also not going to work - and one wouldn't expect this (and probably search for a long time), because removing compat switches finally before rebooting, *AFTER* everything was rebuilt and installation verified, is just good practice. So, as a user I would expect to find this mentioned in some release notes. OTOH, rust is an add-on, and so one could take the position that base is not concerned. But then at least ports/UPDATING should somehow mention it.
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