firefox and openoffice.org dump core at pthread_atfork()

NAKAJI Hiroyuki nakaji at jp.freebsd.org
Wed Oct 25 04:27:02 UTC 2006


Hi,

On my FreeBSD/i386 7.0-current on Dual Xeon box usually fails at
pthread_atfork(). For example,

1. Print or just print preview from Firefox
2. Run OpenOffice.org, no operation and then exit

$ uname -a
FreeBSD roddy.4407.kankyo-u.ac.jp 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #72: Thu Oct 19 10:11:06 JST 2006     root at roddy.4407.kankyo-u.ac.jp:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RODDY  i386

The latest soffice.bin.core shows that Segmentation fault occured at
pthread_atfork().

(gdb) bt
#0  0x290e07ef in pthread_atfork () from /lib/libpthread.so.2
#1  0x290d89ca in pthread_kill () from /lib/libpthread.so.2
#2  0x082302b0 in ?? ()

I sent simillar report to FreeBSD-users-jp
http://home.jp.freebsd.org/cgi-bin/showmail/FreeBSD-users-jp/89635

Some guys have same experience and some not.

And, because dmesg says "signal 11", I checked the memory with memtest86
but no errors are found.

I'm confused very much.
-- 
NAKAJI Hiroyuki


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