[gentoo-user] Firefox 45.2.0 segfaulting

[gentoo-user] Firefox 45.2.0 segfaulting

[Grant Edwards]

www-client/firefox got updated this morning to 45.2.0, and now it segfaults
whenever you enter a character in the search field or the URL field.

Anybody else see this sort of behavior?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 45.2.0 segfaulting

[Alexander Kapshuk]

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On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 8:55 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
wrote:

> www-client/firefox got updated this morning to 45.2.0, and now it segfaults
> whenever you enter a character in the search field or the URL field.
>
> Anybody else see this sort of behavior?
>
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>
>
>

Not reproducible here.

equery -q l firefox
www-client/firefox-45.2.0

equery -q u firefox | grep +
+bindist
+dbus
+ffmpeg
+gmp-autoupdate
+gstreamer
+gtk3
+hwaccel
+jemalloc3
+jit
+pulseaudio
+startup-notification

emerge --info
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[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 45.2.0 segfaulting

[Grant Edwards]

On 2016-07-14, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:

> www-client/firefox got updated this morning to 45.2.0, and now it segfaults
> whenever you enter a character in the search field or the URL field.

Same behavior with 47.0.1.  Starting 47 in "safe mode" avoids the
problem, but starting 47 in normal mode with all extensions disabled
still crashes.

I downgraded to 38.8, and everyting works fine again.

I guess I'll stick with 38.8.

Or maybe it's time to switch to Chrome. :/

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[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 45.2.0 segfaulting

[Ian Zimmerman]

On 2016-07-14 19:37 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:

> Or maybe it's time to switch to Chrome. :/

I have this reaction every time Mozilla gives me this kind of
"upgrade".  But then I think about the implications:

- No Request Policy type of extension (AFAIK)

- I don't know if I can search with DDG by default, instead of Google

- I don't know if Chrome has even the meagre keyboard interface FF has

- I don't know (in fact I doubt it strongly) if I can disable
  "webfonts" with Chrome as I still can (fingers crossed) with FF

and many others.

I guess when FF finaly becomes intolerable I'll switch to lynx or w3m :-P

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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 45.2.0 segfaulting

[Adrien Sohier]

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Le Thu, 14 Jul 2016 17:55:02 +0000 (UTC),
Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> a écrit :

> www-client/firefox got updated this morning to 45.2.0, and now it segfaults
> whenever you enter a character in the search field or the URL field.
> 
> Anybody else see this sort of behavior?
> 

I run firefox 47.0.1 and don't have that kind of problem.
Though to solve this you could try a few things :
- rebuild firefox (if you built it, instead of using the binary one) with
	-ggdb CFLAG and debug USE flag, and then run it under gdb.
	Then you could try to reproduce the segfault, and gdb would tell you where
	it crashed (even the source files and guilty lines), and push that to
	Mozilla's bugzilla and/or package maintainer to get a patch in the meantime

- at least just try to reproduce the bug, and file it to Mozilla / package
	maintainer to get them to reproduce it and fix it

- or simply downgrade to the previous version. :)


Chrome hasn't the faintest customisation firefox grants us thanks to its
XML-JS-CSS UI Structure, and the quantity of modules is simply incredible
(plus it's not Google behind, that can't be anything but a plus).

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 45.2.0 segfaulting

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 08:55:31 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:

> > Or maybe it's time to switch to Chrome. :/  
> 
> I have this reaction every time Mozilla gives me this kind of
> "upgrade".  But then I think about the implications:
> 
> - No Request Policy type of extension (AFAIK)
> 
> - I don't know if I can search with DDG by default, instead of Google

You can, Chromium has a large number of search engines available -
including b.g.o.

> - I don't know if Chrome has even the meagre keyboard interface FF has

I don't know what FF's keyboard interface is like, but I'd call
Chromium's fairly meagre, certainly not as good as Konqueror's.
> 
> - I don't know (in fact I doubt it strongly) if I can disable
>   "webfonts" with Chrome as I still can (fingers crossed) with FF

Instead of not trying it based on what you don't know about it, why not
just install it and try for yourself? Chromium is a big build, taking
longer than any other package I have installed, but Chrome is a binary
package so should install very quickly.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

"I laugh in the face of danger, then I hide until it goes away"

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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 45.2.0 segfaulting

[lukash]

Never happened to me, I'm going though versions as they appear in
unstable, on 47.0.0 currently. Haven't had this sort of a problem with
Firefox in years.

Have you considered turning core dumps on to get a backtrace and either
try to narrow down the issue (to some library or such) or submit a bug
report? Possibly build Firefox with debug symbols to see more
information from the core dump. Howtos are laying around the webs, it's
not too hard... If you're up for it and need more pointers let me know.


On Thu, 2016-07-14 at 17:55 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> www-client/firefox got updated this morning to 45.2.0, and now it
> segfaults
> whenever you enter a character in the search field or the URL field.
> 
> Anybody else see this sort of behavior?
> 

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 45.2.0 segfaulting

[Jeremi Piotrowski]

On Thu, 14 Jul 2016, Grant Edwards wrote:
> 
> Same behavior with 47.0.1.  Starting 47 in "safe mode" avoids the
> problem, but starting 47 in normal mode with all extensions disabled
> still crashes.
> 
> I downgraded to 38.8, and everyting works fine again.
> 

Are you running all of these test with the build-from-source 
www-client/firefox ebuild? I used to do that but after not being able to 
track down the cause of some weird font-related graphics glitches, I 
settled for the binary www-client/firefox-bin package and haven't had 
problems since. I always run ~amd64 firefox-bin, currently at 47 and have 
no problems whatsoever.

Definitely recommend you try that before going for chrome.

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 45.2.0 segfaulting

[Ian Zimmerman]

On 2016-07-14 19:37 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:

> > www-client/firefox got updated this morning to 45.2.0, and now it
> > segfaults whenever you enter a character in the search field or the
> > URL field.
> 
> Same behavior with 47.0.1.  Starting 47 in "safe mode" avoids the
> problem, but starting 47 in normal mode with all extensions disabled
> still crashes.

Do you have a custom fontconfig setup, either with a modified /etc/fonts
or with ~/.fonts.conf ?

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[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 45.2.0 segfaulting

[Grant Edwards]

On 2016-07-16, Jeremi Piotrowski <jeremi.piotrowski@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2016, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> 
>> Same behavior with 47.0.1.  Starting 47 in "safe mode" avoids the
>> problem, but starting 47 in normal mode with all extensions disabled
>> still crashes.
>> 
>> I downgraded to 38.8, and everyting works fine again.
>> 
>
> Are you running all of these test with the build-from-source 
> www-client/firefox ebuild?

Yes, the crashes were all with the standard build-from-source ebuild.

I installed firefox-bin (45.2) and it seems to work fine.  :/

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[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 45.2.0 segfaulting

[Grant Edwards]

On 2016-07-17, Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org> wrote:
> On 2016-07-14 19:37 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>>> www-client/firefox got updated this morning to 45.2.0, and now it
>>> segfaults whenever you enter a character in the search field or
>>> the URL field.
>> 
>> Same behavior with 47.0.1.  Starting 47 in "safe mode" avoids the
>> problem, but starting 47 in normal mode with all extensions
>> disabled still crashes.
>
> Do you have a custom fontconfig setup, either with a modified /etc/fonts
> or with ~/.fonts.conf ?

Nope.  Not that I'm aware of.

I'll use firefox-bin for now.  In a few months I may try building from
source again.

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[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 45.2.0 segfaulting

[Grant Edwards]

On 2016-07-14, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2016-07-14, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> www-client/firefox got updated this morning to 45.2.0, and now it segfaults
>> whenever you enter a character in the search field or the URL field.
>
> Same behavior with 47.0.1.

And 48.0

firefox-bin 45.3.0 works fine, as does firefox-38.8.

Still need to try building with debug symbols...

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[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 45.2.0 segfaulting

[Grant Edwards]

On 2016-08-05, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2016-07-14, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2016-07-14, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> www-client/firefox got updated this morning to 45.2.0, and now it segfaults
>>> whenever you enter a character in the search field or the URL field.
>>
>> Same behavior with 47.0.1.
>
> And 48.0

And 45.4.

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[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 45.2.0 segfaulting

[Kai Krakow]

Am Thu, 14 Jul 2016 17:55:02 +0000 (UTC)
schrieb Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>:

> www-client/firefox got updated this morning to 45.2.0, and now it
> segfaults whenever you enter a character in the search field or the
> URL field.
> 
> Anybody else see this sort of behavior?

Did you enable custom-cflags or custom-optimization in the use flags?
Firefox doesn't work well with it. Also, using system libs instead of
the bundled libs may add to stability problems.

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Kai

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