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

[Robert Burmeister]

   Note: the recently updated putty 0.63 also gives a similar error

     /home/robert% putty
     /home/robert/.gtkrc-2.0:2: Unable to find include file:
     ".gtkrc-2.0-scrollbar_cog"
     Fontconfig warning: "/usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line
     14: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
     /home/robert%

   but does start and run.
   The firefox error

     /home/robert% firefox
     (process:1418): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion
     `sys_page_size == 0' failed
     /home/robert/.gtkrc-2.0:2: Unable to find include file:
     ".gtkrc-2.0-scrollbar_cog"
     Fontconfig warning: "/usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line
     14: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
     (process:1418): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion
     `sys_page_size == 0' failed
     /home/robert/.gtkrc-2.0:2: Unable to find include file:
     ".gtkrc-2.0-scrollbar_cog"
     Fontconfig warning: "/usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line
     14: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
     /home/robert/.gtkrc-2.0:2: Unable to find include file:
     ".gtkrc-2.0-scrollbar_cog"
     /home/robert%

   indicates the "GLib-CRITICAL" is the critical error, however I am still
   curious about the
   Unable to find include file: ".gtkrc-2.0-scrollbar_cog"
   error.
   On 8/5/2013 12:31 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:

   On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Joe Marcus Clarke
   <[1]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

   >> <[2]marcus at marcuscom.com <mailto:[3]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 <
   >>     > [4]Robert.Burmeister at utoledo.edu

   >>     <mailto:[5]Robert.Burmeister at utoledo.edu>> wrote:
   >>     >
   >>     >> You do realize, updating glib20 to version 2.36.3 invokes bug
   >>     >>
   >>
   [6]https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/**show_bug.cgi?id=833117<[7]https://bug
   zilla.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
   >>
   [8]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: [9]rkoberman at gmail.com

References

   1. mailto:marcus at marcuscom.com
   2. mailto:marcus at marcuscom.com
   3. mailto:marcus at marcuscom.com
   4. mailto:Robert.Burmeister at utoledo.edu
   5. mailto:Robert.Burmeister at utoledo.edu
   6. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/**show_bug.cgi?id=833117
   7. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=833117
   8. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/+bug/1179554
   9. mailto:rkoberman at gmail.com