Firefox 49.0_5,1 crash on startup

[Fernando Herrero Carrón]

2016-09-21 11:41 GMT+02:00 Otacílio de Araújo Ramos Neto <
otacilio.neto at bsd.com.br>:

> Em qua, 21 de set de 2016 05:16, João Neves <sevenjp at gmail.com> escreveu:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Upgraded to Firefox 49.0_5,1 from ports on my 10.3 x86_64 installation
> > running on VirtualBox, where a previous version was running OK recently
> and
> > now Firefox immediately fails to start up, no core dump or any other
> > information.
> >
> > I enabled the DEBUG config option to try and get some sort of output,
> but I
> > only get:
> >
> > nsStringStats
> >  => mAllocCount:              8
> >  => mReallocCount:            1
> >  => mFreeCount:               1  --  LEAKED 7 !!!
> >  => mShareCount:              4
> >  => mAdoptCount:              0
> >  => mAdoptFreeCount:          0
> >  => Process ID: 10931, Thread ID: 34403848192
> >
> > The only non-standard option I am currently using is DBUS=off.
> >
> > My make.conf is as follows:
> >
> > DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=ssl=libressl
> > DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=linux=c6_64
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
> > --
> > João Neves
> >
>
>
> Hello João
>
> This problem happens with me also. The fix was rebuild
> virtualbox-ose-addtions with OpenGL support enabled. And enable this
> support to OpenGL 3D acceleration in virtual machine configuration also. To
> confirm you can try run glxgears. If it crash the problem is exactly the
> same that I have faced.
>
> []'s
> -Otacilio
>
> >
>

Hi there,

I experienced the same with firefox and darktable. The only obvious
connection between the two is gtk3. Other applications using Tcl/Tk work
fine. I was hoping to investigate it further, but good that someone
mentioned it :-)