FreeBSD Port: devel/glib20 *URGENT* ( updating glib20 to version 2.36.3 invokes bug 833117 which disables recent versions of Firefox and Thunderbird )

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On 8/1/13 9:03 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Robert Burmeister <
> Robert.Burmeister at utoledo.edu> wrote:
> 
>> You do realize, updating glib20 to version 2.36.3 invokes bug
>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/**show_bug.cgi?id=833117<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=833117>
>> which disables recent versions of Firefox and Thunderbird?
>>
>> Might I suggest chatting with the Mozilla team about their progress?
>>
> 
> Can anyone confirm that this impacts FreeBSD?  Since the issue seems to be
> with the memory allocator in Linux, I am not at all certain that it applies
> to FreeBSD. Things like that are often very OS specific. Even on Linux some
> people are not seeing it.
> 

Yes, the bug affects FreeBSD in that I see the assertion:

(process:15045): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion
`sys_page_size == 0' failed

However, Firefox starts and seems to work normally for me after that.

I think the problem is actually
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/+bug/1179554 as
described in the bug above.  In this case, it does look very Linux-specific.

Joe
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