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Date:      Sat, 29 Jun 2002 02:05:50 -0700
From:      walt <wa1ter@hotmail.com>
To:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re  More on gnome and mozilla (post-KSE)
Message-ID:  <3D1D786E.4010508@hotmail.com>

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Julian on FreeBSD-CURRENT wrote:

 > On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, walt wrote:

 >> Dunno if this is important, but I meant to mention it in my
 >> initial problem report:  the problem with gnome and mozilla
 >> chewing up CPU cycles begain just after the make world
 >> finished and while the make kernel was still compiling,
 >> so whatever this problem is it was not due to changes
 >> in the kernel.

 > hmmmmmmm
 > well, since the only changes were in the kernel except for libkvm
 > I'm puzzled. If you boot off the old kernel (You still have it right? 
 > :-) does it still act the same?

Yes.  The bad behavior started with the old kernel and still does the
same thing when I reboot it today.  I should mention I also did see
one segfault from mozilla after it churned away for 30 seconds or so,
but I only saw that once--I think it was while the kernel was still
compiling--and haven't seen it since.

I notice today that gnumeric also segfaults with both old and new
kernels.

It may be possible (sorry I can't be sure) that what I'm calling
the 'old' kernel may have been compiled in the middle of your
KSE commit--it's dated only a couple of hours older that the
'new' kernel which was definitely made after your commit was
done.  If this is the case then the bad behavior may have
started earlier than I thought--at the previous reboot--and I
just didn't notice it.

I run xfce routinely on the -CURRENT machine so I wouldn't
notice the gnome breakage until my wife sat down at the
machine and started whining that gnome-mahjongg didn't work
...and she couldn't read her Hotmail with mozilla either.

As to your question about debugging skills--alas, few and
far between.  I've never used gdb but I'm willing to try
if someone could give me an example of what I would need
to do to give you the right info.


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