From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 24 23:47:14 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 4F256106567B; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:47:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de) Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de [130.133.4.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB5308FC1A; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:47:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.69]) by outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.69) with esmtp (envelope-from ) id <1NuaI4-0000aU-Se>; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:47:12 +0100 Received: from e178057006.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.57.6] helo=thor.walstatt.dyndns.org) by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.69) with esmtpsa (envelope-from ) id <1NuaI4-0001nS-Pt>; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:47:12 +0100 Message-ID: <4BAAA480.5060307@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:47:12 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100308 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de References: <4BAA1478.9020201@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20100324150653.3a447c98@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <20100324150653.3a447c98@ernst.jennejohn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: 85.178.57.6 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, "O. Hartmann" , 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 List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:47:14 -0000 On 03/24/10 15:06, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > 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 You're right, I'll test this as soon as I'm back in my lab. Oliver Hartmann