Re: firefox-bin dumps core

[Dave Tyson <dtyson%liv.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Friday 10 July 2009 10:58:57 Nicolas Joly wrote:
> 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 ...

Hi Nicolas,
thanks for having a look - I couldn't see anything obvious either. I'll try on 
another system just in case its a memory problem or similar - mind you this 
is my standard desktop machine and gets a fair pounding.

I had a quick look at Julian's suggestion, but the sem stuff is default in 
GENERIC and it's failing too early on to be due to sem issues...

Regards,
Dave

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