firefox 12 crash on FreeBSD 7

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Wed, 2 May 2012, Florian Smeets wrote:

> >>> after portupgrading www/firefox port to version 12, I'm constantly have crashes 
> >>> by "bad system call" signal.
> >>>
> >>> on stderr there is
> >>>
> >>> (firefox-bin:95162): libnotify-WARNING **: Failed to connect to proxy
> >>> Bad system call (core dumped)
> >>>
> >>>  ktrace shows 
> >>>
> >>>  95162 firefox-bin CALL  ksem_init(0xbfbf350c,0)
> >>>  95162 firefox-bin RET   ksem_init -1 errno 78 Function not implemented
> >>>  95162 firefox-bin PSIG  SIGSYS SIG_DFL
> >>
> >> can you try loading the sem module? Also have a look at pkg-message
> >> (Firefox and HTML5). Perhaps firefox 12 needs the module for other
> >> things now?!
> > 
> > I thought I'm aware of this, and I do have semaphores in my kernel:
> > 
> > root at woozle:/usr/ports# config -x /boot/kernel/kernel | grep -i sem
> > options SYSVSEM
> > 
> > or it this other semaphores?
> > 
> 
> Yes, it's POSIX semaphores (options P1003_1B_SEMAPHORES).

For the record and search engines: yes, the cause was posix semaphores absence.

Thanks all for the kick in right direction ;)

-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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