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Date:      Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:02:54 +0000
From:      Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Firefox & thunderbird crash saving a file
Message-ID:  <4577D8BE.6020105@freebsd.org>

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This started around the late 1.5.0.x versions and also happens in FF 2.0

When saving a file, e.g. an e-mail attachment, right-click->Save Link 
As... on a webpage, or uploading a file to a web forum, it will work 
once - maybe twice - but on subsequent saves the dialogue opens but the 
cursor stays as 'busy' for ~15 seconds, then FF/TB segfault and crash.

% uname -a
FreeBSD redshift 6.1-RC FreeBSD 6.1-RC #0: Mon May  1 14:05:04 BST 2006 
     root@redshift:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/REDSHIFT  i386

This is a stack trace of the core dump - both FF and TB give the same trace.

(gdb) bt
#0  0x28c0a1ab in pthread_testcancel () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.2
#1  0x28bf86dd in sigaction () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.2
#2  0x28bf1c45 in pthread_kill () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.2
#3  0x28bf14c4 in raise () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.2
#4  0x08060134 in ?? ()
#5  0x0000000b in ?? ()
#6  0xbfbfb6d0 in ?? ()
#7  0x00000000 in ?? ()
#8  0x0806e048 in ?? ()
#9  0x00000400 in ?? ()
#10 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#11 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#12 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#13 0xbfbfb7b0 in ?? ()
#14 0x0000000f in ?? ()
#15 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#16 0x28c0d4b4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.2
#17 0xbfbfba60 in ?? ()
#18 0x0000000b in ?? ()
#19 0xbfbfb728 in ?? ()
#20 0x28bf6598 in sigaction () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.2
Previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)
(gdb) total 19

What is very suspicious is the last line if the trace about a corrupt 
stack. Looks like it is a threading problem but since I can't find any 
other posts about this happening I guess it's just my system. Since my 
system is 6 months old (6.1-RC) do you think doing a make world to bring 
it up to 6.2 would solve the problem?

Thanks.

Regards,

Mark



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