firefox core dump

[Sean McNeil]

On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 20:37, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 23:33, Sean McNeil wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Try running as root (su -).

Same thing happened.  No difference.