Re: firefox-104.0,2 crashing

On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 06:06:33PM -0400, Jesús Daniel Colmenares Oviedo wrote:
> ...
> You need an entry in /etc/hosts for each display name in `xauth list`.
> Look at my /etc/hosts:
> 
> ```
> $ egrep '^[^#]' /etc/hosts
> ::1 localhost localhost.my.domain
> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.my.domain dtxdf-laptop
> ```
> 
> After adding an entry in the specified file, you must remove or rename
> your profile application (~/.thunderbird or ~/.firefox):
> 
> ```
> mv ~/.thunderbird ~/.thunderbird.bak
> ```
> 
> This is necessary because your hostname will remain in the cache.
> 
> Now, just run firefox and it should be fine.

I think you must be doing something rather different (with
firefox(/thunderbird)) than I do.  (Well, I don't use thunderbird, so
there's that.)

But:  I am not experiencing firefox crashes.  /etc/hosts has:

g1-70(12.3-S)[2] grep -v '^#' /etc/hosts
::1                     localhost localhost.my.domain
127.0.0.1               localhost localhost.my.domain
g1-70(12.3-S)[3] 

(and I don't mess with it: I use DNS for mapping hostnames to IP
addresses; the machine in question is my laptop, which changes its IP
address depending on what network it's using at the time).  I use
dhclient-exit-hooks to assign the hostname, given the IP address (if
there's a PTR record I can access; if not, I leave it as "localhost").

(That said, I only change the hostname in /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks if
xterm isn't running -- which I use as a proxy for "X11 is currently in
use.")

Thus, in the present case, the laptop's hostname is (still)
g1-70.catwhisker.org -- which was assigned while the laptop & I were at
home this morning, before xdm started up.  The laptop has been on a
couple of other networks since (currently at work), but since I was
logged in, and I always have at least one xterm window, the hostname
didn't change (though the IP address did).

<shrug> Maybe what I'm doing is weird, but it seems to work for me.

This is currently running:

g1-70(12.3-S)[5] uname -aUK
FreeBSD g1-70.catwhisker.org 12.3-STABLE FreeBSD 12.3-STABLE #1267 stable/12-n235542-7fb15b35cc2: Wed Aug 17 03:32:19 PDT 2022     root@g1-70.catwhisker.org:/common/S1/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/CANARY  amd64 1203507 1203507

g1-70(12.3-S)[6] pkg info -o firefox\*
firefox-104.0_1,2              www/firefox

from the "head" branch of the ports tree at main-n592370-7848dd1a26aa.

Peace,
david
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