(minor) issues after upgrading to 2.20

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:08:27 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org>  
wrote:

> Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>> On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:10:46 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke
>> <marcus at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 02:14 -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 01:18:21 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke
>>>> <marcus at FreeBSD.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 20:56 -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>>>> >> On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:41:16 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke
>>>> >> <marcus at FreeBSD.org>
>>>> >> wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> > On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 20:18 -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>>>> >> >> On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 17:07:43 -0500, Jeremy Messenger
>>>> <mezz7 at cox.net>
>>>> >> >> wrote:
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> <snip>
>>>> >> >> > Yelp likes to crash at the every exit. I couldn't get good
>>>> >> >> backtraces, I
>>>> >> >> > think I will have to reinstall firefox with WITH_DEBUG to get
>>>> good
>>>> >> >> one.
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >> The backtraces look better now after reinstall firefox w/
>>>> WITH_DEBUG.
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/gdb/gdb-yelp.txt
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > Firefox is trying to call some method in a module that gdb  
>>>> doesn't
>>>> >> know
>>>> >> > about.  Do you have any plug-ins or extensions loaded in Firefox?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Not that I know as I don't use Firefox. I went to Firefox's add-on
>>>> place
>>>> >> and it shows that I have 'DOM Inspector 1.8.1.7', that's it. Other
>>>> days
>>>> >> ago, I did add flashblock to reproduce Frank Jahnke's problem and I
>>>> >> deleted it after that, but I can reproduce Yelp problem before I
>>>> added
>>>> >> flashblock.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> > Can you print out the value of mInfo in frame 1 of the stack?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Yeah, I re-ran gdb and now it's frame 3, so here:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> (gdb) f 3
>>>> >> #3  0x292bcded in ~nsGenericFactory (this=0x824f380) at
>>>> >> nsGenericFactory.cpp:64
>>>> >> 64      nsGenericFactory.cpp: No such file or directory.
>>>> >>          in nsGenericFactory.cpp
>>>> >> Current language:  auto; currently c++
>>>> >> (gdb) print mInfo
>>>> >> $1 = (const nsModuleComponentInfo *) 0xbfbfe7e0
>>>> >
>>>> > I need to see the contents of the pointer, so:
>>>> >
>>>> > print *mInfo
>>>>
>>>> (gdb) print *mInfo
>>>> $1 = {
>>>>    mDescription = 0x878dd004 <Error reading address 0x878dd004: Bad
>>>> address>,
>>>>    mCID = {m0 = 673230848, m1 = 16744, m2 = 10495, m3 =
>>>> "\020\036?(?|\021\b"},
>>>>    mContractID = 0xbfbfe838 "X???N??(",
>>>>    mConstructor = 0x28076ba1 <_rtld_bind_start+17>,
>>>>    mRegisterSelfProc = 0x28209800, mUnregisterSelfProc = 0x20,
>>>>    mFactoryDestructor = 0x80cdcf0,
>>>>    mGetInterfacesProc = 0x293794c8 <vtable for nsTraceRefcntImpl+8>,
>>>>    mGetLanguageHelperProc = 0x28ff41c8 <__JCR_LIST__+4>,
>>>>    mClassInfoGlobal = 0x28ff1e10, mFlags = 0}
>>>>
>>>
>>> It almost looks like it's trying to dereference a pointer to something
>>> that is no longer in memory.  Like a module has already been unloaded,
>>> and that code is being called.  I just upgraded my -CURRENT amd64
>>> machine, and I can't reproduce there either.
>>>
>>> But I did find something that may help.  Extract Firefox, then edit
>>> embedding/base/nsEmbedAPI.cpp, and uncomment line 56.  Rebuild Firefox,
>>> and see if this helps.  We may need to add that for < -CURRENT.
>>
>> The crash disappear when I uncomment that line 56.
>>
>> #define HACK_AROUND_NONREENTRANT_INITXPCOM
>
> Good, that's what I thought.  How about the functionality of yelp and
> Ephiphany?  Anything become more broken after uncommenting that line?

Nothing more broke, Epiphany and Liferea run fine. As for the Yelp, I  
still get that same 'dialog' as I have report other than that, it's same  
and solve crash problem at exit.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Joe


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