ports/105589: Firefox 2.0 segfaults when saving more than one file per session

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:10:24 -0600, Micah <micahjon at ywave.com> wrote:

> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>> On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 19:01 -0800, Micah wrote:
>>> I've installed a complete Gnome system for further testing. I have  
>>> confirmed that gedit, eog, and epiphany (and probably any gnome based  
>>> app) all show the bug when launched from KDE. GIMP, PAN2, and OOo do  
>>> not show the bug. This was all tested from a freshly created user  
>>> account with an initially empty home directory. The bug does not show  
>>> up while in a Gnome session (not sure how Indigo managed a crash -  
>>> maybe he was running some KDE software in his Gnome session?) It  
>>> appears to be a general Gnome/KDE incompatibility and has nothing to  
>>> do with the Gecko applications directly.
>>  I have isolated the cause of the crash.  The problem stems from KDE
>> setting XDG_DATA_DIRS in the environment.  It sets a value with two
>> instances of /usr/local/share.  This seems to cause memory corruption,
>> and leads to a crash.  If you reset XDG_DATA_DIRS
>> to  
>> :/usr/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/X11R6/share:/usr/X11R6/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/gnome  
>> Firefox will no longer crash.
>>  This is a two-part bug.  KDE is clearly setting a bad value.  It should
>> be adding /usr/local/share/gnome to the XDG_DATA_DIRS, but instead it
>> duplicates an element.  Even so, XDG should not add a duplicate element.
>>  Joe
>
> Wow! Thanks for keeping at this!
>
> Running from an environment with XDG_DATA_DIRS set properly does seem to  
> fix both firefox and gedit.
>
> So my question now is what next? Do I (or someone) need to file a PR  
> against kde-xdg-env? And I'm not clear on "XDG should not add a  
> duplicate element," who has responsibility for fixing that? (I'm having  
> trouble tracking down XDG as anything other than the former name of  
> freedesktop.org)

No need to file another PR. See here:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2006-December/016302.html

marcus has added kde@ (maintainer) in the CC.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Thanks!
> Micah
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