Re: [gentoo-amd64] How can I capture enough debug info to make a good bug report?

["Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On 10/2/07, Rodolphe Rocca <fake2@free.fr> wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Hi,
> >    On a subscriber web site I am seeing a consistent problem with both
> > Firefox & Firefox-bin. When I click a specific link the browser
> > crashes with a seg fault:
> >
> > mark@lightning ~ $ firefox-bin
> > No running windows found
> > /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119:  6108 Segmentation fault
> > $(type -P aoss) "$mozbin" "$@"
> > firefox-bin exited with non-zero status (139)
> > mark@lightning ~ $ firefox
> > No running windows found
> > Removing /home/mark/.mozilla/firefox/ipm4osof.default/compreg.dat
> > leftover from older firefox
> > /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119:  6149 Segmentation fault
> > $(type -P aoss) "$mozbin" "$@"
> > firefox-bin exited with non-zero status (139)
> > mark@lightning ~ $
> >
> >    Note that I see Firefox crashing on my Windows Vista box also, but
> > Internet Explorer does not, so this doesn't seem to me to be a Linux
> > issue specifically.
> >
> >    How can I get enough info to pass along to someone and have it be useful?
> >
>
> 1) Remerge firefox with the debug use flag
> 2) rebuild your kernel (if needed) with CONFIG_ELF_CORE=y
> 3) reboot
> 4) connect your page
>
> The segfault should produce a core file that you could send to firefox devs.
>
> If I forgot something, guys, please correct me.
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Will this work? I'm on a 64-bit machine. These web sites all require
flash and Java. For the most part I still feel like flash and Java
just don't work correctly on 64-bit, and maybe not even on 32-bit.

Anyway, there is no debug flag on filefox-bin which I think is 32-bit
and is crashing. I'm willing to rebuild if necessary but I think I
want to try and get some more info first.

Thanks!

Cheers,
Mark

lightning ~ # emerge -pv mozilla-firefox-bin

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-2.0.0.6
USE="-restrict-javascript" LINGUAS="-af -ar -be -bg -ca -cs -da -de
-el -en_GB -es -es_AR -es_ES -eu -fi -fr -fy -fy_NL -ga -ga_IE -gu
-gu_IN -he -hu -it -ja -ka -ko -ku -lt -mk -mn -nb -nb_NO -nl -nn
-nn_NO -pa -pa_IN -pl -pt -pt_BR -pt_PT -ro -ru -sk -sl -sv -sv_SE -tr
-zh -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
lightning ~ # emerge -pv mozilla-firefox

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.7  USE="gnome java
-bindist -debug -filepicker -ipv6 -mozdevelop -moznopango
-restrict-javascript -xforms -xinerama -xprint" LINGUAS="-af -ar -be
-bg -ca -cs -da -de -el -en_GB -es -es_AR -es_ES -eu -fi -fr -fy
-fy_NL -ga -ga_IE -gu -gu_IN -he -hu -it -ja -ka -ko -ku -lt -mk -mn
-nb -nb_NO -nl -nn -nn_NO -pa -pa_IN -pl -pt -pt_BR -pt_PT -ro -ru -sk
-sl -sv -sv_SE -tr -zh -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
lightning ~ #
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