Re: firefox-bin dumps core

[Nicolas Joly <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost>]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:47:53AM +0100, Dave Tyson wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 July 2009 22:36:08 you wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 08:04:16PM +0100, Dave Tyson wrote:
> > > Hi Guys'n'Gals,
> > >
> > > Just installed firefox-bin from pkgsrc-2009Q1 on a NetBSD-5_STABLE system
> > > and it just seems to dump core:
> > >
> > > $ firefox-linux
> > > [1]   Segmentation fault (core dumped) "${prog}" ${1+"$...
> > >
> > > I seem to have the same issue with the openoffice binary :-(
> > >
> > > Linux emulation seems to be working OK as I can invoke
> > > /emul/linux/bin/bash and that runs fine. Is anyone else seeing this
> > > problem or found a way around it. Before the upgrade firefox-bin worked
> > > fine with NetBSD-4 so I guess I'm doing something stupid...
> >
> > On which architecture (i386/amd64) ? Can you ktrace it ?
> 
> Sorry forgot to mention that. Its i386:
> 
> NetBSD darkstar.liv.ac.uk 5.0_STABLE NetBSD 5.0_STABLE (GENERIC) #0: Wed Jul  
> 1 20:11:46 BST 2009 
> root%darkstar.liv.ac.uk@localhost:/usr/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
> 
> I have attached the output of a ktruss -di firefox-linux

Sorry, i do not see anything obvious there ...

-- 
Nicolas Joly

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