From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 24 14:06:56 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17A9E106564A; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:06:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from mout1.freenet.de (mout1.freenet.de [IPv6:2001:748:100:40::2:3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A31418FC08; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:06:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [195.4.92.18] (helo=8.mx.freenet.de) by mout1.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.72 #2) id 1NuREU-0002G1-Cf; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:06:54 +0100 Received: from p57ae0c82.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([87.174.12.130]:18145 helo=ernst.jennejohn.org) by 8.mx.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.72 #2) id 1NuRET-0006U0-Sh; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:06:54 +0100 Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:06:53 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn To: "O. Hartmann" Message-ID: <20100324150653.3a447c98@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <4BAA1478.9020201@zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <4BAA1478.9020201@zedat.fu-berlin.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5 (GTK+ 2.18.7; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox 3.6.X and Thunderbird 3.0.X crashing with Radeon graphics on FBSD 8.0-STABLE SMP/sm64 box X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:06:56 -0000 On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:32:40 +0000 "O. Hartmann" wrote: > Since the introduction of Thunderbird 3.0 and Firefox 3.6 I see > spontanous crashes/coredumps of both thunderbird and firefox. Interingly > Firefox 3.5.X works well on he same platform. > > The platform is a FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE/amd64 (r205536: Tue Mar 23 22:19:04 > CET 2010), SMP box with 8GB of RAM, QuadCore Intel Q6600 on a P35-based > motherboard. > > Thunderbird 3 crashes rarely compared to Firefox 3. The longer the > application thunderbird runs, the higher the likelyhood the app crashes > and vanishes. Sometimes this happens immediately after starting > thunderbird, sometimes it takes its few minutes or half an hour. > > Firefox 3 is sensitive to its pull-down menus or requester showing up in > some situations. I can provoke a crash by clicking onto a pull-down-menu > in firefox 3, it immediately dumps a core. > If you suspect the graphics card's driver is at fault then I would try linux-opera or even linux-firefox and see whether it also dies when you use a drop-down menu. Another possibility would be to set hw.physmem to say 3G or 4G in loader.conf and see whether that affects thunderbird/firefox. Who knows, there may some weird problem caused by all that memory? That would a fairly quick and cheap way to test this. -- Gary Jennejohn