libkse and bus error

[David Xu]

Morten Rodal wrote:

>I hate to rip up in old mails, but I am now able to crash Mozilla 
>Firebird at command.  It dies with the same strange traceback as I got 
>with dc++ (which this thread originally addressed).
>
>When ordering a airplane ticket from www.scandinavian.net Mozilla 
>Firebird will crash when confirming the payment with a signal 10. This 
>happens on three completly different computers;
>
>  * Dual Pentium II 300MHz, libkse, kernel from Nov 19
>  * Pentium III 933MHz, libkse, kernel from Nov  3
>  * Pentium 4 1.7GHz, libkse, kernel from Nov 21
>
>Only the Dual Pentium is running nvidia drivers.  The others are running
>
>X11 drivers.
>
>All of them produce a MozillaFirebird-bin.core which has this backtrace 
>(cut down to an absolute minimum since it is rather huge):
>
>#0  0x288c2ebb in pthread_testcancel () from /usr/lib/libkse.so.1
>#1  0x288bc91b in pthread_mutexattr_init () from /usr/lib/libkse.so.1
>#2  0x288bb36c in pthread_mutexattr_init () from /usr/lib/libkse.so.1
>#3  0x09b8d000 in ?? ()
>#4  0x283c5cac in gtk_widget_hide () from 
>/usr/X11R6/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.200
>
>I will recompile libkse with DEBUG_FLAGS=-g and see if I cant get any 
>more accurate info than this.
>
>  
>
Make sure you have up-to-date libpthread source code, there was a FPU bug
fixed for sometimes.

David Xu