Subject: Re: firefox-gtk2 segfaults
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Tom Spindler <dogcow@babymeat.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/26/2004 15:22:05
> On a current NetBSD i386 system I upgraded firefox-gtk2 to version 0.9.
> After starting firefox as an unprivileged user it tries to open
> /usr/pkg/lib/firefox-gtk2/components.ini read-write and fails (the file
> has permissions 0644), and after that it dumps core:
> 
> $ firefox-gtk2                                                                 
> *** loading the extensions datasource
> *** ExtensionManager:checkForMismatches: no access privileges to application directory!
> Memory fault (core dumped) 
> 
> When started as root firefox dump core (but the open() succeeds, of course).
> A gdb bt reveals:
> 
> #0  0x48711214 in pthread__sched_idle2 () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0
> #1  0x4870f153 in pthread__upcall () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0

This happens for me, not with the gtk2 version, but with the 'regular'
one. Even if run as root, it still bombs out with the same bt in the
coredump. I'm running -current as of 24 Jun 2004.