www/firefox35 coredumps every time at startup

[Heino Tiedemann]

Martin Wilke <miwi at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 09:21:31AM +0200, Heino Tiedemann wrote:
>> > Heino Tiedemann wrote:
>> > > I installed the port www/firefox35. After installation I tried to
>> > > start it
>> > > It core dumps 'every time' (100% reproducable).
>> > 
>> > Did you load sem(4)? To quote UPDATING:
>> > 
>> >   If your Firefox crashes with the following message while viewing a
>> >   HTML5 page: "Bad system call (core dumped)" you need to load the sem
>> >   module (kldload sem).
>> > 
>> >   To load sem on every boot put the following into your
>> >   /boot/loader.conf: sem_load="YES"
>> 
>> 
>> Hi Johan,
>> 
>> no, I did not, because 
>> 
>> 1) my message was different then that one in UPDATING
>> 
>> 2) it crahses on startup, not while viewing a HTML5 document (as mentioned in UPDATING)
>> 
>> 
>> Should I try sem_load="YES" also for that Problem?
>> 
>
> Yes, after the install/update start firefox the FF3.5 welcome site with
> a html5 video, so it's crash with a video.

does not work:

[x] /boot/loader.conf: sem_load="YES"
[x] reboot

$ firefox3
Fatal error 'Recurse on a private mutex.' at line 986 in file
/usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_mutex.c (errno = 2)
Abort trap (core dumped)

Seems to be another problem then mentioned in UPDATE.

my uname -a:

FreeBSD rincewind.tihnet 6.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.4-PRERELEASE #0: Tue Oct 28 18:59:10 CET 2008     root at rincewind.tihnet:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BEASTIE  i386

greets
Heino