FireFox port freezes

[Ed Ryan]

On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

> When was firefox last built?  Try rebuilding it with -DWITH_DEBUG, then
> run firefox -g, and try to capture a backtrace when it hangs.  That
> should give us a little more to go on.

Okay, those changes to /etc/libmap.conf made it finish compiling properly.
FireFox now crashes. In firefox -g, it dies with

Program received signal SIGBUS, Bus error.
0x2806be2c in memset () from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1

When I then run backtrace, I get this:

(gdb) backtrace
#0  0x2806be2c in memset () from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1
#1  0x29c1cd01 in ?? ()
#2  0x280628a0 in find_symdef () from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1
#3  0x2806317d in dlopen () from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1
#4  0x2834175b in PR_LoadLibrary ()
   from /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/lib/mozilla-1.6/libnspr4.so
#5  0x28341664 in PR_LoadLibraryWithFlags ()
   from /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/lib/mozilla-1.6/libnspr4.so
#6  0x283416a9 in PR_LoadLibrary ()
   from /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/lib/mozilla-1.6/libnspr4.so
#7  0x281bfcd4 in nsLocalFile::Load(PRLibrary**) (this=0x80d3180,
_retval=0x80b8b20)
    at ../../dist/include/string/nsString.h:72
#8  0x281d291c in nsDll::Load() (this=0x80b8ac0)
    at ../../dist/include/xpcom/nsCOMPtr.h:669
#9  0x281ceef5 in nsNativeComponentLoader::SelfRegisterDll(nsDll*, char
const*, int)
    (this=0x8071e00, dll=0x80b8ac0, registryLocation=0x80b8a60
"rel:libdocshell.so",
    deferred=0) at nsNativeComponentLoader.cpp:373
#10 0x281d0a63 in nsNativeComponentLoader::AutoRegisterComponent(int,
nsIFile*, int*)
    (this=0x8071e00, when=0, component=0x80d3180, registered=0xbfbfe404)
    at ../../dist/include/string/nsXPIDLString.h:327
#11 0x281ce922 in nsNativeComponentLoader::RegisterComponentsInDir(int,
nsIFile*) (
    this=0x8071e00, when=0, dir=0x0) at nsNativeComponentLoader.cpp:222
#12 0x281ce752 in nsNativeComponentLoader::AutoRegisterComponents(int,
nsIFile*) (
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
    this=0x8071e00, aWhen=0, aDirectory=0x8093300) at
nsNativeComponentLoader.cpp:171
#13 0x281cb14d in nsComponentManagerImpl::AutoRegisterImpl(int, nsIFile*,
int) (
    this=0x8071c00, when=0, inDirSpec=0x0, fileIsCompDir=1)
    at ../../dist/include/xpcom/nsCOMPtr.h:663
#14 0x281cbd08 in nsComponentManagerImpl::AutoRegister(nsIFile*)
(this=0x8071c00,
    aSpec=0x0) at nsComponentManager.cpp:3417
#15 0x28177143 in NS_InitXPCOM2 (result=0x0, binDirectory=0x282369a0,
    appFileLocationProvider=0x807aac0) at nsXPComInit.cpp:569
#16 0x08055a85 in xre_main(int, char**, nsXREAppData const&) (argc=1,
    argv=0xbfbfe924, aAppData=@0xbfbfe8a4) at
../../dist/include/xpcom/nsCOMPtr.h:663
#17 0x0804f727 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfbfe924) at nsBrowserApp.cpp:51
#18 0x0804f5f2 in _start ()

Is that more helpful?

Ed Ryan
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