Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:38:02 -0400 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> Cc: Frank Staals <frankstaals@gmx.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GTK filedialog crashes Firefox/Thunderbird Message-ID: <20070329153802.lzcym1180sgg0k00@newwebmail.jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <20070323210115.GA7721@epia-2.farid-hajji.net> References: <4603EC16.10909@gmx.net> <200703231344.09310.lists@jnielsen.net> <20070323210115.GA7721@epia-2.farid-hajji.net>
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Quoting cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws>: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 01:44:09PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: >> On Friday 23 March 2007 11:02:46 am Frank Staals wrote: >> > It seems that I'm having problems (again) with the GTK filedialog in >> > Firefox/Thunderbird. It happens when saving or opening a file in Firefox >> > or thunderbird resulting in a crash. What to do: >> > >> > - Open Firefox >> > - Save a file, the save-file dialog comes up, Save or cancel it. >> > - Save a file, when the file dialog comes up, file dialog hangs and >> > after a second or something firefox crashes >> >> I'm seeing the same behavior. I searched around on the web a while >> ago and saw >> a report (on a firefox bug issue or mailinglist I think) from >> another FreeBSD >> user about this. He later followed up to his own post saying that >> the problem >> went away after he recompiled ALL of his ports. The thing that was >> interesting is that he only saw the bad behavior under xfce (what WM are you >> using, btw?). I'm running xfce 4.4.0 and have the problem, but I haven't >> gotten around to recompiling everything yet. I may or may not wait for the >> modularXorg stuff to be committed before I do so... > > I'm experiencing a similar problem with the GTK file save box. Under > fluxbox, the save box starts to grow and shrink horizontally by approx > 40% of its size twice per second or so. The only way out of this is to > kill and restart Firefox. I don't know if other GTK-based programs are > affected though. Another data point: I'm too in the midst of the giant > gettext upgrade tango, so this could be temporary, until everything is > finally upgraded. I just want to report that I'm no longer having a problem after a complete system refresh. I upgraded to -CURRENT (mostly for better gjournal support, not because of anything in this thread), uninstalled all my ports, deleted the /var/db/ports directory, removed /usr/X11R6 entirely, set $X11BASE to /usr/local in /etc/make.conf, removed everything but a few config files in /usr/local, and installed everything again. Between the firefox issue I was seeing, the gettext upgrade, and upgrading to -CURRENT I definitely needed to reinstall everything anyway. I decided to go ahead and make the X11BASE change so my life will be easier when the default gets changed. (I'm already running the experimental modularXorg ports tree.) JN
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