Re: firefox dumping core after NetBSD upgrade

[maya%NetBSD.org@localhost]

On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 10:49:58AM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote:
> 
> maya%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
> >On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 08:41:49AM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote:
> >> On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 11:05:57 -0700
> >> bch <brad.harder%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> >> 
> >> > I quit running Firefox on my (-current) laptop months ago because the
> >> > build process (rust, esp) was so brutal. Have there been any
> >> > community efforts to organize the build artifacts from bleeding-edge
> >> > environments to avoid repeating (and failing, in my case) this most
> >> > horrible build?
> >> 
> >> What's the alternative, I've not used NetBSD for desktop tasks for a
> >> while now, but I wish recent Opera browser was available for NetBSD. I
> >> suppose you could run it with Linux emulation, but not sure how well it
> >> works on NetBSD. Last time I tried, which was years ago, there were
> >> some display issues, i.e. scrolling text up/down would produce these
> >> annoying lagging artefacts, etc.
> >
> >Firefox works great. The discussion here isn't about firefox being
> >broken on netbsd, it's being broken across an update. That usually
> >happens due to some kind of binary incompatibility being introduced.
> 
> I'm not sure this is down to a binary incompatibility.
> 
> I started seeing the same thing recently too even when Firefox and all
> its dependencies have been rebuilt from source.
> 
> Google Maps triggers it for me.

You've also stated that glxgears crashes, so it might be the same
problem.  Are you building netbsd in a special way?