[gentoo-user] Firefox and Thunderbird compile issue

[gentoo-user] Firefox and Thunderbird compile issue

[Daniel Frey]

It looks like sometime in the last few days Firefox and Thunderbird
versions were bumped.

I've unfortunately got a problem (oddly enough, the same or very similar
problems) with both:

 1:09.75 In file included from
/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-60.3.0-r1/work/firefox-60.3.0/ff/media/libav/Unified_c_media_libav0.c:29:0:
Exception in thread ProcessReader:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/threading.py", line 801, in __bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/threading.py", line 754, in run
    self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
  File
"/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-60.3.0-r1/work/firefox-60.3.0/testing/mozbase/mozprocess/mozprocess/processhandler.py",
line 1028, in _read
    callback(line.rstrip())
  File
"/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-60.3.0-r1/work/firefox-60.3.0/testing/mozbase/mozprocess/mozprocess/processhandler.py",
line 944, in __call__
    e(*args, **kwargs)
  File
"/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-60.3.0-r1/work/firefox-60.3.0/python/mach/mach/mixin/process.py",
line 86, in handleLine
    line_handler(line)
  File
"/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-60.3.0-r1/work/firefox-60.3.0/python/mozbuild/mozbuild/controller/building.py",
line 672, in on_line
    self.log(logging.INFO, 'build_output', {'line': line}, '{line}')
  File
"/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-60.3.0-r1/work/firefox-60.3.0/python/mach/mach/mixin/logging.py",
line 54, in log
    extra={'action': action, 'params': params})
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 1238, in log
    self._log(level, msg, args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 1293, in _log
    self.handle(record)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 1303, in handle
    self.callHandlers(record)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 1343, in
callHandlers
    hdlr.handle(record)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 766, in handle
    self.emit(record)
  File
"/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-60.3.0-r1/work/firefox-60.3.0/python/mozbuild/mozbuild/controller/building.py",
line 555, in emit
    self.fh.write(msg)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position
146-148: ordinal not in range(128)


Has anyone run into this?

I checked my locale, it's set correctly as utf8. This machine has also
been kept up to date (it's not the same machine that I posted about a
python issue earlier.)

I don't know if Thunderbird is stopping at exactly the same place, but
it was the same "ordinal not in range" error.

Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and Thunderbird compile issue

[Alarig Le Lay]

Hi Daniel,

Didi you tried to remove the temporary directory (inside /var/tmp) and
re-emerge id again? It looks like an incorrectly decompressed archive.

-- 
Alarig

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and Thunderbird compile issue

[Daniel Frey]

On 11/18/18 02:47, Alarig Le Lay wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> Didi you tried to remove the temporary directory (inside /var/tmp) and
> re-emerge id again? It looks like an incorrectly decompressed archive.
> 

I just tried this, to no avail.

I'm trying to rebuild the installed packages I have under dev-python/*
but I'm not sure it will help.

Dan

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and Thunderbird compile issue

[Nuno Silva]

On 2018-11-18, Daniel Frey wrote:

> On 11/18/18 02:47, Alarig Le Lay wrote:
>> Hi Daniel,
>> 
>> Didi you tried to remove the temporary directory (inside /var/tmp) and
>> re-emerge id again? It looks like an incorrectly decompressed archive.
>> 
>
> I just tried this, to no avail.
>
> I'm trying to rebuild the installed packages I have under dev-python/*
> but I'm not sure it will help.

Do you, by any chance, have distcc enabled?:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646062
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8275494.html

-- 
Nuno Silva

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and Thunderbird compile issue

[Daniel Frey]

On 11/18/18 10:19, (Nuno Silva) wrote:
> On 2018-11-18, Daniel Frey wrote:
> 
>> On 11/18/18 02:47, Alarig Le Lay wrote:
>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>
>>> Didi you tried to remove the temporary directory (inside /var/tmp) and
>>> re-emerge id again? It looks like an incorrectly decompressed archive.
>>>
>>
>> I just tried this, to no avail.
>>
>> I'm trying to rebuild the installed packages I have under dev-python/*
>> but I'm not sure it will help.
> 
> Do you, by any chance, have distcc enabled?:
> 
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646062
> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8275494.html
> 

Aw nuts.

I searched 'distcc firefox' and came across my own thread earlier this year.

I never updated package.env on my backup laptop so it popped up again,
and I completely forgot.

It's really unfortunate that on massive builds distcc is not an option.
Maybe I should consider -bin instead.

Dan

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and Thunderbird compile issue

[Nuno Silva]

On 2018-11-18, Daniel Frey wrote:
[...]
> It's really unfortunate that on massive builds distcc is not an option.
> Maybe I should consider -bin instead.

If you do happen to have a more powerful machine running Gentoo on a
compatible architecture[1], you could also try Gentoo binary packages
(that is, not -bin, but binary packages made from www-client/firefox and
mail-client/thunderbird on that machine, either automatically with
FEATURES=buildpkg, or manually using quickpkg or emerge --buildpkg).

[1] I guess it should also be possible to cross-compile, but that will
require additional steps, with which I am not acquainted.

Do you know Seamonkey? If you like it and it works for everything you
use Firefox and Thunderbird with, another idea to consider would be
replacing Firefox and Thunderbird with Seamonkey Navigator and Seamonkey
Mail&News.  That way, it would be "just" one massive build instead of
two.

-- 
Nuno Silva

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and Thunderbird compile issue

[Dale]

(Nuno Silva) wrote:
> On 2018-11-18, Daniel Frey wrote:
> [...]
>> It's really unfortunate that on massive builds distcc is not an option.
>> Maybe I should consider -bin instead.
> If you do happen to have a more powerful machine running Gentoo on a
> compatible architecture[1], you could also try Gentoo binary packages
> (that is, not -bin, but binary packages made from www-client/firefox and
> mail-client/thunderbird on that machine, either automatically with
> FEATURES=buildpkg, or manually using quickpkg or emerge --buildpkg).
>
> [1] I guess it should also be possible to cross-compile, but that will
> require additional steps, with which I am not acquainted.
>
> Do you know Seamonkey? If you like it and it works for everything you
> use Firefox and Thunderbird with, another idea to consider would be
> replacing Firefox and Thunderbird with Seamonkey Navigator and Seamonkey
> Mail&News.  That way, it would be "just" one massive build instead of
> two.
>

I looked at the build times of both Firefox and Seamonkey, they both
average out to about the same.  For me here, about 1.5 hours.  Of
course, it varies a bit but that's a rough average.  While genlop -t
shows compile times, it doesn't average them out.  It's just rough in my
head quick math.  ;-)  I agree that Seamonkey may be a good option for
Daniel.

I use Seamonkey for my email and some web browsing.  While the new
Firefox has some advantages in some areas, Seamonkey does work well.  I
have both installed here. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

P. S.  For those who keep up with my slow upgrades.  I just ordered a
FX-8350 CPU and 32GBs of ram.  The new Firefox with Content Process set
to 4 would use all my memory and cause my system to crash, reboot
actually.  I had to go back to one.  With the new 32GBs of ram, I hope
to be able to set it to 2, 3 or maybe 4.  For what I do, I think 2 would
be enough.  They should be here in a few days.  Sort of dread putting
the CPU in.  Always concerned something could go sideways.  :/  Old
parts will go on a older mobo I have.  It may turn into a server for all
those hard drives I need to have.  lol 

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and Thunderbird compile issue

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sat, 24 Nov 2018 02:29:10 -0600, Dale wrote:

> I looked at the build times of both Firefox and Seamonkey, they both
> average out to about the same.  For me here, about 1.5 hours.  Of
> course, it varies a bit but that's a rough average.  While genlop -t
> shows compile times, it doesn't average them out.  It's just rough in my
> head quick math.  ;-) 

Try genlop -i or qlop -t


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Walking on water and writing software to specification is easy if they're frozen.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and Thunderbird compile issue

[Dale]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Nov 2018 02:29:10 -0600, Dale wrote:
>
>> I looked at the build times of both Firefox and Seamonkey, they both
>> average out to about the same.  For me here, about 1.5 hours.  Of
>> course, it varies a bit but that's a rough average.  While genlop -t
>> shows compile times, it doesn't average them out.  It's just rough in my
>> head quick math.  ;-) 
> Try genlop -i or qlop -t
>
>


I need to read the man pages every once in a while.  I don't recall
seeing that there last I looked.  Still, it also includes when I install
from a pre-built binary which takes only a few seconds or a minute or
so.  That throws off the average a bit.  Sometimes a upgrade goes a
little sideways.  When doing it in my head, I ignore those.  Still
interesting to know about the -i option tho. 

Going by the output of the -i tho, Seamonkey only takes a little longer
than Firefox.  Of course, I've had to go back to a pre-built binary a
couple times with Firefox recently.  Accounting for that, I suspect they
are roughly the same. 

Thanks for sharing the -i info.  Interesting.

Dale

:-)  :-)