From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Dec 11 02:02:17 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABF45E827FF for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2017 02:02:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-it0-x22f.google.com (mail-it0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c0b::22f]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 71E826C2B2 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2017 02:02:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: by mail-it0-x22f.google.com with SMTP id m11so10698703iti.1 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 18:02:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=rZQAD8fkk03olEdpZvYcyZ7Lci09gtw0B71MqQkc3GM=; b=I9TnGnS8xxfvXoJcewQdDaRj8A454MZSV0Fn8ZD8AxbfaWc1gdv+aYOrKFhvX2eUzc EhfZ6NZ74q3M2EOuqTtdTCDrPMw5lpMe2oKMgGOU1bKLvRQmrEdgVx04r4JNSIzpnevo Xj/+PJCFISmkeOgJoqYU3nwRw08/6ORGZ++t4xp7cqj/v9yhm1wJpZManIdcrWnPpBfv CD/3lRKBa7791BCu0IdQ73ndsPIbU0bxdSzAhUa3hH0rCtF8iuN9ogZOSnuBW47NDCuE sDjfQgoZ4K7gMhWwGOFMm1ETpEF0p5xGE1e9G+rOBfA0eQoFjkkvr2WeuGZmspPLVLQd 9tVg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=rZQAD8fkk03olEdpZvYcyZ7Lci09gtw0B71MqQkc3GM=; b=kxZgASFKbAdKQOMIUOMpSbUxXRUDymwikaaFU2uingh2jYbnuk2oCeKHbYTq7xYf2t /AvYmvTgyrqiucKmeaDPEN7NjXGSANk6wrfRiAkKMdne+aEoe9zZjJq3cPrB9wSCwchW 6w1aafPIPewQIWvqWjo0JcW7DjMu1DdRay6C/Am99BfGVhvAI/pJKVjwO9HxaAA3dQIB mLxpsl46ocKYj9aU9TNjEJcdzENkWYWKOyMJ9KniJN2+dz0uziWxQMpPEqRS7iiuEjb0 DLgL6ELlQoyop91qqlrn/fC8coGkR7/j5OgkNjcwlO9ON5hF7PcFTuK+aXrHLq7k4eoK uUbg== X-Gm-Message-State: AJaThX5uF9ufPRoQTD0zADIRbAxEPWhqKGatAVmQzSL/2u8BE4r7uucv rBwIXcLP5U6FAASL5tpVPgKQAkPjxWI189JkxKY= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGs4zMYwGszcnn+HEt7QUHm1sFI72VXRJu2cdEW1Sq+mrtEUl1DHeVf09hdVYAYjRwAyCZCFJ3xtQuDTLlquW4s410E= X-Received: by 10.107.175.165 with SMTP id p37mr54394923ioo.32.1512957736726; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 18:02:16 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.2.138.114 with HTTP; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 18:02:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <201712110045.vBB0jCTQ078476@nightmare.dreamchaser.org> References: <201712110045.vBB0jCTQ078476@nightmare.dreamchaser.org> From: Adam Vande More Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 20:02:16 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Subject: Thunderbird causing system crash, need guidance To: Gary Aitken Cc: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.25 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 02:02:17 -0000 On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 6:45 PM, Gary Aitken < garya@nightmare.dreamchaser.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > Looking for guidance diagnosing a system crash caused by > attempting to start Thunderbird. > > 10.3-RELEASE-p20 FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p20 #0: Wed Jul 12 03:13:07 > UTC 2017 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr > /src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > > After running flawlessly for over a month, I started having > sluggish behavior. Since this is a known problem with firefox > 56, I exited and restarted it several times over the course of a > few days. Then yesterday (2017-12-08) the system hung and > crashed. > > I have narrowed the cause down to Thunderbird 52.4.0, or at least > something associated with it. > > The system + X seem to still run fine; openoffice, firefox, gimp. > When I attempt to start t-bird the cursor disappears almost > immediately, followed by a long wait with the display apparently > frozen, and then results in a crash and reboot. > > It seems t-bird should crash/dump core without crashing the > system if it was just a t-bird problem, even if it's a bad binary > image? > > I originally had crash dumps disabled, so changed > dumpdev="NO" to "AUTO" in rc.conf > but still no dump in /var/crash > only thing in /var/crash is minfree, which says "2048" > At reboot, I see the message > "No suitable dump device was found" > so presumably that is the cause of the missing dump. > It may be my sys config, as /tmp and swap are memdisks. > The disk has no swap or tmp partition; I'm not sure how or if I > can modify fstab or the config to get swap on disk for a dump. > From fstab: > /dev/ufs/hd250G1root / ufs rw,noatime 1 1 > /dev/ufs/hd250G1var /var ufs rw,noatime 2 2 > /dev/ufs/hd250G1usr /usr ufs rw,noatime 7 3 > tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,mode=01777 0 0 > md99 none swap sw,file=/usr/swap/swap,late 0 > 0 > /var is 16G > > It seems like it may be corrupted disk data, but I'm wondering if > there's a good way to diagnose that. > fsck(8) Your swap configuration is also mostly likely silly. If you need more performance, that's not the way to do it. -- Adam