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 8/5/13 12:54 AM, Robert Burmeister wrote:
> I mention it as my FireFox 22 fails to launch as described in the bug
> report after updating glib20 to version 2.36.3.
> 
> My copy of the Epiphany browser is built on libxul 17.0.7, which still
> works, as does Thunderbird 17.0.7.
> 
> 
> I had finish a system recompile of FreeBSD 9.2 i386 from stable and all
> my 1166 ports on July 30th.
> 
> A quick update on July 31st became a problem after running
> portsnap fetch update
> portsdb -Uu
> pkgdb -u
> pkgdb -F
> 
> before running
> 
> portupgrade -arR
> 
> as, without having a heads up from UPDATING, I stripped my pkgdb of its
> glib20 dependencies.
> A few pkgdb -L and pkgdb -F s later, and I am now able to trouble shoot
> the issue.

Then if you can grab a backtrace in gdb when Firefox crashes, that will
help.  While this message is critical, it should not trigger a termination.

Joe

> 
> I did a portupgrade -af over the weekend, and still have the same problem.
> 
> 
> On 8/3/2013 2:12 AM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke
>> <marcus at marcuscom.com <mailto: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
>>     <mailto: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 <mailto:rkoberman at gmail.com>


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