I have no idea if this is related but from pkg-message Firefox 3.6 and HTML5
Certain functions used to display HTML5 elements need the sem module. If your Firefox crashes with the following message while viewing a HTML5 page: "Bad system call (core dumped)" you need to load the sem module (kldload sem). To load sem on every boot put the following into your /boot/loader.conf: sem_load="YES" On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:04 PM, O. Hartmann <ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de>wrote: > On 02/08/10 16:20, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > >> On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:32:25 +0000 >> "O. Hartmann"<ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Today, I upgraded Firefox 3.5.7 (built yesterday) to Firefox 3.6. After >>> deleting ~/.mozilla (after I did a buckup, of course), I tried a fresh >>> start of 'firefox3'. After firefox showed up, I realized that no >>> option-field (File, Extras etc) can be used, they are dead and after a >>> few seconds I clicked them, firefox3 is crashing. >>> >>> Since I recompiled firefox 3.5.7 yesterday I was wondering if this is >>> due to some 'false' lib or dependency. Since I figured that I have >>> similar trouble with Thunderbird 3.0.1 after I installed it, I suspect a >>> faulty library causing this behaviour. With Thunderbird 3, I never >>> solved the problem although I tried to rebuild everything with >>> thunderbird via 'portmaster -f'. I'll did this with firefox 3.6 also, >>> but with no success. >>> >>> The crashing is observed on two nearly identical SMP FreeBSD 8.0/amd64 >>> STABLE boxes (make world of today), up-to-date ports. The crash is NOT >>> observed on my private oldish UP box, nearly the same setup, OS at the >>> same revision and ports up to date as of yesterday. Maybe this could be >>> a hint. >>> >>> Any hints or suggestions? >>> >>> >>> >> Try doing "ldd /usr/local/lib/firefox3/firefox-bin" and see if anything >> looks weird. >> >> > I did - and there is nothing weird. > > I checked the installed libraries and they are all rebuild when rebuilding > necessary dependencies for firefox3. > > > You can porbably ignore >> /usr/local/lib/firefox3/firefox-bin: >> libxul.so => not found (0x0) >> libmozjs.so => not found (0x0) >> libxpcom.so => not found (0x0) >> because run-mozilla.sh sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include >> /usr/local/lib/firefox3 where these libraries are installed. >> >> I merely deleted my old firefox 3.6 and reinstalled from the port (on >> 9-CURRENT AMD64) and haven't seen any problems. But of course, I've >> been running various incarnations of 3.6 for a while and may have gotten >> all the dependencies already correctly installed. >> >> --- >> Gary Jennejohn >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" >> >> > > I tried again, left the 'make config'-options as they were set by default, > delete/backuped .mozilla in my home and they restartet firefox3. Nothing > better than previously seen. Try hitting Button 'Tools' at the top menu bar > gives a menu after several seconds, then firefox crashes/core dumps. > > Oliver > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-po...@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
