Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 23:12:34 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>, Robert Burmeister <Robert.Burmeister@utoledo.edu> 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 ) Message-ID: <CAN6yY1sCir3kN61pUsGNFcUXMb%2Bj_tsC893anzTm8jX=VRsz3A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <51FB1B5A.90302@marcuscom.com> References: <51F9FCD0.5000600@UToledo.edu> <CAN6yY1vrgwtgDK_xN_Jc8GHXzQR=qrWxw=P1tMDujynDaGn=QQ@mail.gmail.com> <51FB1B5A.90302@marcuscom.com>
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On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>wrote: > On 8/1/13 9:03 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > 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<; > 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. > > > > Yes, the bug affects FreeBSD in that I see the assertion: > > (process:15045): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion > `sys_page_size == 0' failed > > However, Firefox starts and seems to work normally for me after that. > > I think the problem is actually > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/+bug/1179554 as > described in the bug above. In this case, it does look very > Linux-specific. > > Thanks, Joe. I have installed the new glib and updated all of the dependencies (about 400 of them including libreoffice) and everything seem to be working fine including firefox and thunderbird. I do get the error, but almost everything runs as it should. I can't get multimedia/handbrake to build, but I doubt that it is related to the glib change. I've not really looked at the problem yet. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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