Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 22:37:14 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>, Robert Burmeister <Robert.Burmeister@utoledo.edu> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: devel/glib20 *URGENT* ( updating glib20 to version 2.36.3 invokes bug 833117 which disables recent versions of Firefox and Thunderbird ) Message-ID: <51FB1B5A.90302@marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1vrgwtgDK_xN_Jc8GHXzQR=qrWxw=P1tMDujynDaGn=QQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <51F9FCD0.5000600@UToledo.edu> <CAN6yY1vrgwtgDK_xN_Jc8GHXzQR=qrWxw=P1tMDujynDaGn=QQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 8/1/13 9:03 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Robert Burmeister < > Robert.Burmeister@utoledo.edu> wrote: > >> You do realize, updating glib20 to version 2.36.3 invokes bug >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/**show_bug.cgi?id=833117<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=833117>; >> which disables recent versions of Firefox and Thunderbird? >> >> Might I suggest chatting with the Mozilla team about their progress? >> > > Can anyone confirm that this impacts FreeBSD? Since the issue seems to be > with the memory allocator in Linux, I am not at all certain that it applies > to FreeBSD. Things like that are often very OS specific. Even on Linux some > people are not seeing it. > Yes, the bug affects FreeBSD in that I see the assertion: (process:15045): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion `sys_page_size == 0' failed However, Firefox starts and seems to work normally for me after that. I think the problem is actually https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/+bug/1179554 as described in the bug above. In this case, it does look very Linux-specific. Joe -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
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