Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 04:33:06 -0700 From: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port Mozilla - fails badly when I ran portupgrade Message-ID: <20020511043306.B29841@ninja1.internal> In-Reply-To: <1019969494.742.6.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>; from "marcus@marcuscom.com" on Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at = 12:51:34AM References: <20020423231838.60e8f150.chip@wiegand.org> <20020423232253.D61911@ninja1.internal> <1019675885.8815.46.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> <20020424145609.O61911@ninja1.internal> <1019703039.297.12.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> <20020424201320.A82196@ninja1.internal> <1019706431.26338.11.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> <20020426233153.A51215@ninja1.internal> <1019969494.742.6.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>
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> > > Can you try running mozilla from a directory you have write > > > permissions on? Of course, without debugging symbols, the core > > > analysis might not do any good. > > > > Not an issue... > > > > > > Other ideas on how to get it to leave a trace? -sc > > > > > > Another option is to tie gdb to the running mozilla process: > > > > > > gdb /usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin <PID of mozilla-bin> > > > > > > Then get mozilla to crash. > > > > Excellent! But, I'm having a hell of a time getting mozilla to build > > with debugging symbols. I see -g in the build output, but gdb says > > there aren't any debugging symbols. I found a few libs that were left > > behind by mozilla-embedded that I removed. Recompiling doesn't seem > > to help... any ideas on how to get gdb debugging symbols in there? > > make.conf and my environment have -g set, and I can see the individual > > object files being compiled with -g. How can I make mozilla w/o > > stripping the binary? -sc > > Add the line: > > STRIP= > > to the mozilla Makefile. EXCELLENT NEWS! I found the culprit (roughly). I moved my .mozilla file out of the way and had mozilla recreate all of my profile data. Since then, no problems. I haven't isolated what it was in my .mozilla/ dir that did this, but if anyone's curious, let me know and I'll sanitize and send along a copy. -sc -- Sean Chittenden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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