firefox core dump
Sean McNeil
sean at mcneil.com
Thu Jun 17 20:34:00 PDT 2004
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 20:27, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 22:12, Sean McNeil wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 18:54, Sean McNeil wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 18:35, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > > Debugging with Mozilla and Firefox has been problematic due to the lack
> > > > of KSE debugging support. In general, libmap'ing libpthread to libc_r
> > > > should get Firefox to compile. However, running under libc_r might not
> > > > produce any crashes. At least this is what I'm seeing with a
> > > > thunderbird-0.7 crash.
> > > >
> > > > Joe
> > >
> > > In this case, I think it is a compiler problem. I just CC'd -gnome with
> > > the results of looking into a warning message that turned out to be
> > > invalid code. Hopefully, this will solve my problem with firefox. It's
> > > in the right area of code at least. Still building, but I should know
> > > soon enough.
> > >
> > > Sean
> >
> > I got a little farther now, but there is still something wrong. If I
> > try to run with libc_r I get into a loop where it just spits out
> >
> > *** loading the extensions datasource
> >
> > forever. With pthread, now I get the following core dump:
>
> This is exactly what I'm seeing with Thunderbird and KSE (see my post on
> threads@). However, if I libmap libthr or libc_r, then run Thunderbird,
> I get it to come up. After that, I can libmap libpthread back to
> libpthread, and Thunderbird will still work. It sounds like that's not
> the case for you.
>
> Out of curiosity, what user are you using to run Firefox?
>
> Joe
I ran as user sean which is an ldap account. The first time through I
got the import dialog before the crash. I just rm -rf'd .mozilla and
tried again. Got the dialog and selected "don't import anything" and
still crashed as before.
Sean
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