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Date:      Tue, 10 May 2005 16:44:36 +0100
From:      Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: firefox crashes after upgrade to R5.4
Message-ID:  <4280D6E4.1020302@dial.pipex.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050510151624.20903.qmail@web61108.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20050510151624.20903.qmail@web61108.mail.yahoo.com>

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Hou Ian wrote:

 >>>After successful upgrade to R5.4 via
 >>>buildworld/installworld on my amd64/R5.3 machine,
 >>>
 >>>everything works quite well except that the
 >>>firefox-1.0.3 crashes whenever I try to use"find"
 >>>
 >>>(Ctrl-f) or access to localhost for samba
 >>>administration. The firefox window got closed
 >>>immediately and core-dump without leaving any
 >>>other trace when either of the above events take place.

If firefox is like mozilla, then you can make the port with debugging
   make WITH_DEBUG=1

That might a) give you more info about what happens just before it 
crashes and b) give you a -g executable you can use with your core file.

The only other question is, did you update gnome recently, and did you follow the instructions in /usr/ports/UPDATING? --look for 20050312.  Only guessing mind.  My last attempt at thunderbird crashed constantly -- far more often than your firefox.  I just gave up.

Also, be warned that with debugging, mozilla beeps quite a lot as it seems to fail assertions doing just about anything.  Not very accurate assertions, I guess ;)  Also, you may need to tweak or delete /var/db/ports/firefox/options when you want to recompile without debugging again.  That one caught me out, and mozilla is *still* beeping like a mad thing.

--Alex




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