System freezes unexpectly

[Garrett Cooper]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Andriy Gapon <avg at icyb.net.ua> wrote:
> on 30/08/2010 00:13 dougb at freebsd.org said the following:
>> On 08/29/2010 09:33 AM, Davide Italiano wrote:
>>>> Can you run firefox from xterm and check for any errors that might be
>>>> >  generated?
>>>> >
>>>> >  Cheers,
>>>> >
>>>> >  --
>>>> >  Glen Barber
>>>> >
>>> Tried doing this. But no output.
>>
>> Try recompiling the port with the option for debug enabled. That'll get you some
>> output. :)
>
> Guys asking questions about firefox, etc, why do you do that? :)
> Did you misread system freeze as firefox freeze?

Because it might hold a valuable clue as to why the system is freezing :).

Also, make sure that you have POSIX semaphores (the sem module, or
`options P1003_1B_SEMAPHORES' in your kernel config) enabled on the
system. Some functionality in Firefox depends on functioning POSIX
semaphores.

Cheers,
-Garrett