Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 19:03:06 +0200 From: Christoph Brinkhaus <c.brinkhaus@t-online.de> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> Cc: gecko@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HTML5 videos crashes Firefox Message-ID: <20160327170306.GA57504@esprimo.local> In-Reply-To: <56F804E9.8050506@netfence.it> References: <56F804E9.8050506@netfence.it>
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On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 06:06:01PM +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > Hello. > > Since a week or two my FireFox crashes as soon as an HTML5 video starts > playing. This can be sistematically reproduced, for example, by opening > YouTube and selecting a random video. > > Notice I'm not that intrested in such videos, I just hate it when I open > a page with one on it (possibly advertisement) and the 25 opened > windows/tabs suddenly die. > > > > Nothing is printed on the terminal apart from "Bus error (core dumped)". > Obviously the core file is useless, but I tried recompiling FireFox with > debug symbols and that didn't make it any more readable (only some ?? in > the stack trace). > "portupgrade -Rf firefox" was only a waste of time. > I switched from GTK2 to GTK3 (which I think became the default in the > meanwhile), but the crashes weren't affected. > I deleted my config and rebuilt with default options, only to get the > same behaviour. > I read disabling ALSA might solve, but it didn't (besides, it was > enabled before the crashes started). > I remembered in the past we had to load sem.ko, but it didn't help either. > > Hello Andrea, I have tried the first video I get from youtube without problems. May be you post an url where the crash occurs. The options I use are according to pkg info ALSA : on BUNDLED_CAIRO : off CANBERRA : off DBUS : on DEBUG : off DTRACE : off FFMPEG : on GCONF : off GIO : on GNOMEUI : off GTK2 : on GTK3 : off INTEGER_SAMPLES: off LIBPROXY : off OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS: off PGO : off PROFILE : off PULSEAUDIO : off TEST : off The version is 45.0.1,1 > > So I'm just looking for any hint that could help me get on the right > track to debug this. > TIA to anyone who will answer. > May be you try pkg_libchk from sysutils/bsdadminscripts if the libraries are in order. > > > > Some info: > > % uname -a > > FreeBSD alamar.ventu 10.2-RELEASE-p14 FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE-p14 #5 r297011: Fri Mar 18 10:48:43 CET 2016 root@alamar.ventu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ALAMAR i386 > Do you have an i386 kernel? I am not sure if there might be a possible issue. When I have started using FreeBSD I thought amd64 is just for AMD processors. But amd64 is also ok for Intel. > > % ident /usr/ports/www/firefox/Makefile > > /usr/ports/www/firefox/Makefile: > > $FreeBSD: head/www/firefox/Makefile 411909 2016-03-25 23:30:06Z jbeich $ This is likely the newest one. I am not completely up to date because I mostly upgrade only when there are vulnerabilities. > > bye > av. Kind regards, Christoph
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