INO64 Effecting Firefox

[Oleg V. Nauman]

On Sunday 28 May 2017 18:09:19 O. Hartmann wrote:
> Am Sun, 28 May 2017 08:54:35 -0700
> 
> Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> schrieb:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I can't imagine that this is related to INO64, but since upgrading my
> > world and kernel on drm-next (which merged upstream CURRENT as of May 27
> > which should include the ino64 work) I am having segfaults running
> > firefox.  Previous to this firefox was very stable for work/personal
> > daily use.
> > 
> > The error I'm seeing is:
> > Full message: TypeError: malformed UTF-8 character sequence at offset 0
> > 
> > Firefox does start and I can load a page or two before it sefaults.
> > 
> > The full console output is here:
> > 
> > https://gist.github.com/anonymous/555202b1452503ad9e26750168f87d5f
> > 
> > 
> > Posting this here in the off chance that it's either related to ino64,
> > or some other recent change has caused this problem.
> > 
> > Cheers!
> > 
> > -pete
> 
> I see similar problems. Out of the blue, firefox crashes.
> But in my case, firefox is "old", since it doesn't compile with
> WITH_LLD_IS_LD due to a very strange error (Bug 218808).
> 
> The binary I run und CURRENT (FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #8 r319001: Sun May 28
> 00:21:16 CEST 2017 amd64, WITH_LLD_IS_LD=yes) if as of
> 
> firefox-53.0_2,1
> Name           : firefox
> Version        : 53.0_2,1
> Installed on   : Sun Apr 16 10:17:14 2017 CEST
> Origin         : www/firefox
> Architecture   : FreeBSD:12:amd64
> 
> I got a kind of relief (means: the frequence of crashes is reduced) when
> starting to rebuild all ports again (I'm staying with make and portmaster)
> to meet ABI requirements after ino64 has been introduced.
> 
> Another strange behaviour is: firefox crashes very likely very often when
> started. Once it has run a while, I can consider it "stable". It doen not
> crash then.

 Please try to rebuild firefox. It helps me today with firefox-esr segfaulting 
on my desktop running 12.0-CURRENT r318856
 From my limited understanding of stacktraces it was related to libthr 
changes.