firefox-4.0.1,1 crashes

[Janos Dohanics]

On Fri, 06 May 2011 23:45:25 +0200
"Herbert J. Skuhra" <h.skuhra at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 6 May 2011 09:31:57 -0400
> Janos Dohanics <web at 3dresearch.com> wrote:
> 
> >After updating Firefox and all the ports it depends on,
> >firefox-4.0.1,1 crashes when trying to use any part of the toolbar
> >or the pull-down menu.
> >
> >I have posted the gdb output:
> >
> >http://wwwp.3dresearch.com/firefox.bt
> >
> >I have also recently rebuilt kernel and world (FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE
> >i386)
> 
> Have you rebuilt your kernel without "options P1003_1B_SEMAPHORES"?
> 
> man sem
> 
> -Herbert

Rebuilt the kernel with "options P1003_1B_SEMAPHORES" and Firefox now
works fine.

Since this option seems to be required for Firefox (and perhaps for
other ports?), shouldn't /usr/ports/UPDATING or /usr/src/UPDATING
reflect this?

Thanks again for your help.

-- 
Janos Dohanics