Consistant core dump with firefox and KSE

[Franz Klammer]

Damian Gerow wrote:
> Aside from working out all the various plugin problems, my install of
> firefox (0.9.1) really doesn't like using KSE.  I didn't fine anything via
> Google, so my apologies if this is a duplicate.
> 

maybe you should use libpthread.so.1 instead of libkse.so.1 in libmap.conf?
i can't remember when when exactly the switchover was but i'm pretty sure
that your installed version don't use libkse anymore.

take a look at /usr/src/UPDATING an search for libpthread.

franz.


> Here's what I hope are the required bits of a gdb trace of the core:
> 
>     % gdb6 /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/lib/firefox-0.9.1/firefox-bin --core=firefox-bin.core
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>     This GDB was configured as "i386-portbld-freebsd5.2"...(no debugging symbols found)...
>     Core was generated by `firefox-bin'.
>     Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
>     Reading symbols from ....
>     Loaded symbols for ...
>     <ad nauseum>
>     #0  0x288fb85b in pthread_testcancel () from /usr/lib/libkse.so.1
>     (gdb) backtrace
>     #0  0x288fb85b in pthread_testcancel () from /usr/lib/libkse.so.1
>     #1  0x288f3e3c in pthread_mutexattr_init () from /usr/lib/libkse.so.1
>     #2  0x08177200 in ?? ()
>     #3  0x0805c090 in ?? ()
>     #4  0x288f8044 in pthread_setconcurrency () from /usr/lib/libkse.so.1
>     #5  0x282d56a1 in PR_OpenDir () from /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/lib/firefox-0.9.1/libnspr4.so
>     #6  0x28c6ea8c in nsSocketTransportService::Poll () from /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/lib/firefox-0.9.1/components/libnecko.so
>     #7  0x28c6ef9a in nsSocketTransportService::ServiceEventQ () from /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/lib/firefox-0.9.1/components/libnecko.so
>     #8  0x28189ee3 in nsThread::Main () from /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/lib/firefox-0.9.1/libxpcom.so
>     #9  0x282d6be6 in PR_Select () from /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/lib/firefox-0.9.1/libnspr4.so
>     #10 0x288e78fd in pthread_create () from /usr/lib/libkse.so.1
>     #11 0x28a55a9b in _ctx_start () from /lib/libc.so.5
>     #12 0x0810e200 in ?? ()
>     #13 0x282d6b4d in PR_Select () from /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/lib/firefox-0.9.1/libnspr4.so
>     #14 0x00000000 in ?? ()
>     #15 0x00000000 in ?? ()
>     Cannot access memory at address 0xbfaee000
>     (gdb)
> 
> I'm not sure what else would be required, but I can reproduce this bug at
> will.
> 
>   - Damian