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 Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
Any system info that might be involved would also help. uname -a,
/etc/make/conf, /etc/src.conf, config changes from GENERIC, loader and
sysctl mods.

-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com