Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes on some www-pages on a newer Gentoo system

[gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com>]

2018-07-27 14:13 GMT+03:00 gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com>:
> 2018-07-27 13:57 GMT+03:00 Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>:
>> On Friday, 27 July 2018 11:44:08 BST gevisz wrote:
>>> 2018-07-27 12:44 GMT+03:00 Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>:
>>
>>> > PAM is used to separate applications from the underlying
>>> > authentication mechanisms.  It checks OS user/account/passwd/session
>>> > authentications when required by applications.  This is the backbone
>>> > of managing Linux authentications today, although some applications
>>> > retain their own application level authentication mechanism (e.g. SSH).
>>>
>>> So, do you think that global -pam use flag can cause Firefox
>>> and QupZilla to crash on loging web-pages?
>>
>> You can run them with strace to see if they are trying to access any pam
>> modules, but I would think it unlikely.
>
> Thank you for the tip. I will try to use strace after reading about it.
>
> However, currently I already deleted grobal -pam use flag and
> started to update world with the new settings. Some new packages
> are currently installing and some other are recompiling.

Updating world without global -pam, -polkit and -consolekit use flags
in /etc/portage/make.conf have not changed the behaviour of Fireforx
described above: it is still cannot display the page https://www.privat24.ua/
and shows "Gah. Your tab just crashed." message.

So, I will probably revert changes tomorrow.

Playing with strace has been put on todo list.

Any more adeas?