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

[Kevin Oberman]

On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
> Thanks, Joe. I have installed the new glib and updated all of the
dependencies (about 400 of them including libreoffice) and everything seem
to be working fine including firefox and thunderbird. I do get the error,
but almost everything runs as it should.

I can't get multimedia/handbrake to build, but I doubt that it is related
to the glib change. I've not really looked at the problem yet.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com