Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 20:33:08 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: firefox+thunderbird crashes in gtk 2.24.18+ Message-ID: <51F09C74.8070102@freebsd.org>
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Hi gnome people, With gtk 2.24.18 and later, firefox and thunderbird sometimes crash when closing windows. AFAIK nobody has tracked down exactly why, but it seems to be a race condition between closing the window and redrawing windows. I have an open bug report with the mozilla folks: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=887587 and several other crash reports have been traced to the same problem. The common theme is that the backtrace ends with gdk_window_process_all_updates -> g_slist_foreach -> g_object_ref -> boom. Reverting this commit in GTK fixes the problem for me: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/commit/?h=gtk-2-24&id=692a0e5906c5da7f85c16c9d6cbb0d3ed8b4a576 Is there any possibility of having this reversion added to the ports tree, at least until the GTK or Mozilla folks figure out exactly what's going wrong? It would be nice to ship FreeBSD 9.2 with Firefox and Thunderbird not being excessively crashy. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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