Re: use of menus crashes Firefox? (resolved, I think)

2011-01-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 20, 2011, at 9:07 PM, Keith Seyffarth wrote: And menus work in Firefox 3.6. I'll have to actually work with it for a day tomorrow to see how it holds up, but I've tried a variety of things and it seems to be playing nicely. Very good. It looks like the solution was to rebuild the

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-20 Thread Keith Seyffarth
Doing a bt would have been helpful right about there, but I think I've got enough info to suggest rebuilding your kernel with the following option: options P1003_1B_SEMAPHORES thanks again, Chuck. I can easily get the bt if needed, but I looked into rebuilding the kernel. It looks

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 20, 2011, at 4:43 PM, Keith Seyffarth wrote: Doing a bt would have been helpful right about there, but I think I've got enough info to suggest rebuilding your kernel with the following option: options P1003_1B_SEMAPHORES thanks again, Chuck. I can easily get the bt if

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-20 Thread Rob Farmer
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 16:43, Keith Seyffarth w...@weif.net wrote: Doing a bt would have been helpful right about there, but I think I've got enough info to suggest rebuilding your kernel with the following option: options         P1003_1B_SEMAPHORES thanks again, Chuck. I can easily get

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-20 Thread Keith Seyffarth
So have you tried this? == 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

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-20 Thread Keith Seyffarth
Chuck, Nope, not if you cvsup or use csup (which comes with the system already, most likely) to RELENG_7_2 or RELENG_7, the latter of which would give you 7-STABLE, which is approaching 7.4 nowadays. I suspect that would not have the desired end result of a running computer... Actually,

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox? (resolved, I think)

2011-01-20 Thread Keith Seyffarth
And menus work in Firefox 3.6. I'll have to actually work with it for a day tomorrow to see how it holds up, but I've tried a variety of things and it seems to be playing nicely. It looks like the solution was to rebuild the kernel with semaphore support through P1003_1B_SEMAPHORES. Thanks.

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-19 Thread Michael
On 18/01/2011 22:56, Keith Seyffarth wrote: In firefox 3.6, anything that generates a menu will also crash the browser. It's not going to help you but I just want to confirm that I'm experiencing the same problem on 8.1-R amd64. It's not happening all the time i.e. everything works fine

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-19 Thread Keith Seyffarth
Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com writes: Enter run, or c for continue. If and when Firefox crashes, you will be able to gain more useful information That does provide a bunch more information. Thank you. Here is the output when Firefox crashed when trying to load a web page. I can definitely

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-19 Thread Keith Seyffarth
It's not going to help you but I just want to confirm that I'm experiencing the same problem on 8.1-R amd64. It's not happening all the time i.e. everything works fine and then it bites me say only once in a week. FreeBSD janet.weif.net 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #1: Sat Oct 31

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jan 19, 2011, at 7:37 AM, Keith Seyffarth wrote: Enter run, or c for continue. If and when Firefox crashes, you will be able to gain more useful information That does provide a bunch more information. Thank you. [ ... ] Program received signal SIGSYS, Bad system call.

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-18 Thread Keith Seyffarth
OK. This is still being a problem. I've removed Firefox 3.6 from my system and installed Firefox 3.5. Use of menus doesn't cause 3.5 to crash, but it sill has problems. On some web sites, the browser dumps core. For example trying to log in, create an account, or retrieve a password at

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-18 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-01-18 23:56, Keith Seyffarth skrev: OK. This is still being a problem. I've removed Firefox 3.6 from my system and installed Firefox 3.5. Use of menus doesn't cause 3.5 to crash, but it sill has problems. On some web sites, the browser dumps core. For example trying to log in, create an

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-18 Thread Keith Seyffarth
Rolf, Thanks for the info. Are you by any chance overriding CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf? Or perhaps No, /etc/make.conf is just three lines: WITH_CUPS=yes # added by use.perl 2010-12-22 15:53:20 PERL_VERSION=5.10.1 even compiling using a gcc version not in the base system? I had that exact

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-18 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-01-19 00:42, Keith Seyffarth skrev: Rolf, Thanks for the info. Are you by any chance overriding CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf? Or perhaps No, /etc/make.conf is just three lines: WITH_CUPS=yes # added by use.perl 2010-12-22 15:53:20 PERL_VERSION=5.10.1 even compiling using a gcc version

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 18, 2011, at 2:56 PM, Keith Seyffarth wrote: Core was generated by `firefox-bin'. Program terminated with signal 12, Bad system call. #0 0x29d7f16b in ?? () Now, again, this is in Firefox 3.5. That message isn't very informative to me, but maybe it is helpful to someone else? Run

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-18 Thread Keith Seyffarth
Run it under gdb, look at the backtrace. Bad system call implies a mismatch between your shared libraries and kernel, or maybe you are loading some plugin or something which has been compiled for a different version of the platform. Chuck, Thanks for the suggestion. I can't figure out how

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 18, 2011, at 6:01 PM, Keith Seyffarth wrote: $ gdb --exec=firefox3 This GDB was configured as i386-marcel-freebsd./usr/local/bin/firefox3: not in executable format: File format not recognized What does file /usr/local/bin/firefox3 say? If it's a Linux binary, then you might not be

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-18 Thread Keith Seyffarth
Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com writes: On Jan 18, 2011, at 6:01 PM, Keith Seyffarth wrote: $ gdb --exec=firefox3 This GDB was configured as i386-marcel-freebsd./usr/local/bin/firefox3: not in executable format: File format not recognized What does file /usr/local/bin/firefox3 say? $ file

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-18 Thread Rob Farmer
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 18:53, Keith Seyffarth w...@weif.net wrote: Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com writes: On Jan 18, 2011, at 6:01 PM, Keith Seyffarth wrote: $ gdb --exec=firefox3 This GDB was configured as i386-marcel-freebsd./usr/local/bin/firefox3: not in executable format: File format

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-18 Thread Keith Seyffarth
Right - firefox3 is a script that sets up a couple environment variables and runs the real binary. You need to gdb the real binary (which is in /usr/local/lib/firefox or somesuch - its not in any remotely normal $PATH). Since the environment stuff the script does is required for it to start,

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 18, 2011, at 8:29 PM, Keith Seyffarth wrote: I did this: $ gdb /usr/local/lib/firefox3/firefox-bin 10388 This results in Firefox being locked and non-responsive to the user interface. Enter run, or c for continue. If and when Firefox crashes, you will be able to gain more useful

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2010-12-21 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 7:51 PM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:26:43 -0700 Keith Seyffarth w...@weif.net wrote: gdbm the core.dump and see if that helps (you may need to enable symbols in Thanks for the information, but I'm not sure what you mean by

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2010-12-20 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Keith Seyffarth w...@weif.net wrote: I'm not sure what else to try. Any suggestions? gdbm the core.dump and see if that helps (you may need to enable symbols in your kernel as well as in the port in question to get a core.dump w/ enough info to be of use). You

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2010-12-20 Thread Keith Seyffarth
gdbm the core.dump and see if that helps (you may need to enable symbols in Thanks for the information, but I'm not sure what you mean by gdbm the core.dump. GDBM appears to be a database management tool of some sort, but the man page does not make it at all clear how one could or would gdbm a

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2010-12-20 Thread RW
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:26:43 -0700 Keith Seyffarth w...@weif.net wrote: gdbm the core.dump and see if that helps (you may need to enable symbols in Thanks for the information, but I'm not sure what you mean by gdbm the core.dump. GDBM appears to be a database management tool of some

use of menus crashes Firefox?

2010-12-19 Thread Keith Seyffarth
After updating gtk following (and most other ports) following the instructions in UPDATING, Firefox now crashes if I click on any menu. This includes the menus such as file, edit, and help in the main menu bar as well as right-clicking or clicking a menu from an extension. So far I have tried