Re: Firefox and amd64/6.0_2014Q2, any news?

[Terho Uotila <tuotila%gmx.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 12:12:42 +0200
Ottavio Caruso wrote:

> On 26 July 2014 15:18, Ottavio Caruso
> <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost> wrote:
> > As you well know the latest Firefox binary package available for
> > Netbsd amd64 is for 6.0_2014Q1. In the past I compiled FF 29 from
> > pkgsrc and it worked fine. I then tried to update it to 30.2 from
> > pkgsrc, the build went fine but on startup it seg faulted. At that
> > moment I didn't have the 29 binary anymore (in hindsight I could
> > have made a backup) so I had to downgrade everything to Q1.
> >
> > What are the latest news? Would it be possible to resurrect FF 29?
> >
> 
> I find it extremely disappointing that nobody has attemped a reply to
> my question. Maybe I've asked the wrong way, in which case I can
> apologize. Or maybe this is the wrong list or maybe everybody is on
> holiday (lucky you!).
> 

I compiled 30.0nb1 from 2014Q2 and it started up without segfault and
did work as expected until I closed it. I had all options disabled,
including pulseaudio. I usually use 24 (on Q2) so I did my brief
testing on fresh account with no old firefox files.

I'm running 6.1_STABLE (GENERIC) amd64 from june with native X11.

> I would like to troubleshoot why this packages segfaults, but it
> doesn't leave any core files, so I wouldn't know where to start.
> 

I would check first if it says anything interesting when started from
xterm, then possibly without using old files (~/.mozilla - move or try
on separate account, though there might also be usable commandline
option).