Re: Firefox stability?

[Greg Oster <oster%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 17:47:33 +0000
David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> wrote:

> On 10 January 2017 at 17:36, John D. Baker <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>
> wrote:
> >
> > Since I was resigned to nuke everything and start over anyway, I
> > decided to double-check by rebuilding everything from scratch using
> > pkgsrc-2016Q4.
> >
> > The resulting firefox-50.1.0 does not hang when engaging the print
> > function.
> >
> > So the problem was apparently some local glitch in a dependency that
> > caused firefox to misbehave.  I'll blame the squirrels.  I don't
> > recall a power outage during the run of 'pkg_rolling-replace' that
> > eventually produced my faulty firefox, but I've slept since then.
> >
> > The build/test machine is not on a UPS, so it's entirely possible
> > that a power-outage at just the wrong time left a glitch in a
> > package.  I had thought that difficult since my WRKOBJDIR is on
> > tmpfs which should be completely nuked by power loss.  My PACKAGES
> > directory is on spinning rust (RAID-5 via amr(4) SCSI RAID
> > controller) using FFSv2 and mounted with "-olog,nodev,nosuid".
> >
> > Now to rebuild the rest of my usual complement.  
> 
> 
> As a data point I see a similar hang with packages built on the 4th
> December. Updating for a new test now...

With packages built on Jan 7, 2017 I see the hang when trying to print
in firefox-50.1.0 on NetBSD-7.0_STABLE (amd64). A new profile and
hitting "CTRL-p" is sufficient to trigger the problem.

Later...

Greg Oster