Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

["András Csányi" <sayusi.ando@gmail.com>]

On 21 September 2010 00:23, Beau Henderson <beau@thehenderson.com> wrote:
> On 09/19/10 20:02, András Csányi wrote:
>>
>> On 19 September 2010 10:09, Alan McKinnon<alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Apparently, though unproven, at 00:28 on Sunday 19 September 2010, András
>>> Csányi did opine thusly:
>>>
>>>> On 19 September 2010 00:14, Kevin O'Gorman<kogorman@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it just me?  Or does Firefox get slower every release?  And less
>>>>> stable.
>>>>>
>>>>> I got myself up to the latest, and I cannot install my 4 add-ons
>>>>> (xmarks,
>>>>> AdBlockPlus, Noscript, Stumble-upon) without it crashing.  Seg fault
>>>>> sometimes.  I've got ECC memory, and no reported problems, and it does
>>>>> not help to clear the profiles (rename ~/.mozilla)  and re-emerge.
>>>>> Grrrrrr.
>>>>
>>>> Use Chrome/Chromium. At my gentoo the fox won't even start. I don't
>>>> know why, I won't to know why... I'm tired about Firefox. :S
>>>
>>>
>>> If you run Firefox from a terminal, do you get an error about xpcom?
>>>
>>> If so, you need revdep-rebuild and possibly re-merge nss.
>>> It's all in the build elogs.
>>
>> Hi Alan,
>>
>> I have tried to start from terminal, but no message. I have tried to
>> run after revdep-rebuild but nothing. I have installed binary version
>> but the result was the same.
>> After these I have tried strace and if I remenber correctly it stopped
>> with segmentation fault. Unfortunately I can't reproduce this problem
>> because few days ago I changed my system from 32 bit to 64 bit. Here
>> everything is working fine according firefox.
>>
>> I know I should have report it but, that time, I was really tired
>> emotionally. :(
>>
>
> I had this same problem and decided I had bad RAM. Before I could order any,
> I rebuild my system and it happens that I did so with an image that had GCC
> 4.3* rather than 4.4. Funny enough, firefox worked just fine. I did some
> searching and apparently nspr has issues with a certain function enabled in
> -O2 @ gcc 4.4.
>
> From the following: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487844
>
> Apparently if you rebuild nspr @ gcc 4.4 with -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing
>
> I haven't confirmed this, as I haven't had time to jump back to 4.4 but if
> someone can confirm this fixes the issue, I'd certainly be greatful!

Hmmm... My former system was compiled with -O3 and gcc version was the
highest because I always use unstable system.

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