From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 2 01:03:30 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F06EBB0A for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2013 01:03:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Received: from mail-oa0-x231.google.com (mail-oa0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c02::231]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BAB982382 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2013 01:03:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f49.google.com with SMTP id n10so135332oag.36 for ; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 18:03:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=wu1QAtu+km1KZ3nTiGmDS6zq/JWJUORoHhK1q8YHCpw=; b=XwKfZ7FIMGeOmluAJBB0gpt+smPsf/0jrckxzsNFBIsmoQmzEeXLOqihxL/nqvN61G sAlC96tXcIXD6/KQQMpS48U7W9P8p1If6jAe1KDzSoOaQVQLigaKdVEPnujLJkeAk47Z bxDsLeQDPG51/XU9WHdyo2dMG8wim5s5f4ZGvP/LQLIOBdw/y1QsV65CRUNNb+YGqmzF EycoIkrBoS0lpkY6Q6x0i756R54TEjWT3GDnPcaeZRZclbJv//ef4C6Xc1DfeeNnLApK mJ4lEce38R3RKejkCnfs2V00OxMpyDLjtRkJk4ol9HuYvmhHg54vGT1TNlfgJn4jtXm4 EbdA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.94.69 with SMTP id da5mr41312oeb.29.1375405408950; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 18:03:28 -0700 (PDT) Sender: kob6558@gmail.com Received: by 10.76.81.168 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 18:03:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <51F9FCD0.5000600@UToledo.edu> References: <51F9FCD0.5000600@UToledo.edu> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 18:03:28 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Fs0YXDd5Cyc67O1cuVMsAlBUeNo Message-ID: Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: devel/glib20 *URGENT* ( updating glib20 to version 2.36.3 invokes bug 833117 which disables recent versions of Firefox and Thunderbird ) From: Kevin Oberman To: Robert Burmeister Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 01:03:30 -0000 On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Robert Burmeister < Robert.Burmeister@utoledo.edu> wrote: > You do realize, updating glib20 to version 2.36.3 invokes bug > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/**show_bug.cgi?id=833117 > which disables recent versions of Firefox and Thunderbird? > > Might I suggest chatting with the Mozilla team about their progress? > Can anyone confirm that this impacts FreeBSD? Since the issue seems to be with the memory allocator in Linux, I am not at all certain that it applies to FreeBSD. Things like that are often very OS specific. Even on Linux some people are not seeing it. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com