Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 01:32:28 -0400 From: Janos Dohanics <web@3dresearch.com> To: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: firefox-4.0.1,1 crashes Message-ID: <20110509013228.7f927d94.web@3dresearch.com> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimHHvsdWQKB8O=_ArGccVgYKXWu-g@mail.gmail.com> References: <20110506093157.4b34ce22.web@3dresearch.com> <87zkmzjyfe.wl%h.skuhra@gmail.com> <20110508140044.77e4137c.web@3dresearch.com> <BANLkTimHHvsdWQKB8O=_ArGccVgYKXWu-g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 8 May 2011 13:32:47 -0500 Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Janos Dohanics <web@3dresearch.com> > wrote: > > > Rebuilt the kernel with "options P1003_1B_SEMAPHORES" and Firefox > > now works fine. > > > > Since this option seems to be required for Firefox (and perhaps for > > other ports?), shouldn't /usr/ports/UPDATING or /usr/src/UPDATING > > reflect this? > > > > Thanks again for your help. > > > > Review the pkg installation message: > > pkg_info -Dx firefox > > And it's not a requirement. I've never seen that issue, or enabled > the fix although firefox is my primary browser. > -- > Adam Vande More pkg_info -Dx firefox says: 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). The page I was looking at was the default Google page. Firefox started to crash after updating to 4.x - apparently, this option is not needed for versions < 4. -- Janos Dohanics
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