Call for tester/reviewer: SeaMonkey 2.0

[Beat Gaetzi]

Gary Palmer wrote:
> Martin Wilke wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 04:37:40PM -0500, Gary Palmer wrote:
>>  
>>> On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 11:21:22PM +0100, Beat Gaetzi wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> A few days ago SeaMonkey 2.0 has been released. To install SeaMonkey
>>>> 2.0
>>>> a modified bsd.gecko.mk is needed. Therefore we are not able to commit
>>>> it to the ports tree until the tree is unfreezed. So now we are looking
>>>> for tester/reviewer of the SeaMonkey 2.0 port.
>>>>
>>>> The port is available in our SVN repository:
>>>> # svn co
>>>> http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/svn/freebsd-gecko/branches/experimental/www/seamonkey-devel
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The modified bsd.gecko.mk could be downloaded here:
>>>> http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/svn/freebsd-gecko/branches/experimental/Mk/bsd.gecko.mk
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> A screenshot of SeaMonkey 2.0 running on FreeBSD is available here:
>>>> http://tmp.chruetertee.ch/seamonkey20.png
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks to Florian Smeets, Andreas Tobler and miwi@ for their work.
>>>>       
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I installed the test port on my FreeBSD 6.4 desktop (don't ask) and
>>> while
>>> initial indications looked positive, the browser reproducibly crashed
>>> when accessing:
>>>
>>> - http://www.slashdot.org/
>>> - http://www.bhphotovideo.com/
>>>
>>> The former I don't care about.  The latter I do.  I don't entirely trust
>>> the backtraces, but one crash seemed to be in js_ConcatStrings in
>>> libmozjs.so.
>>> I tried enabling debugging symbols in the 'make config' section and
>>> rebuilding, but the libmozjs.so library was still stripped before
>>> installation so I wasn't able to do more investigation.
>>>     
>>
>>
>> Kernel module "sem" was loaded?
>>   
> 
> Hi Martin,
> 
> Its not in kldstat but apparently it is in my kernel configuration
> 
> % kldload sysvsem
> kldload: can't load sysvsem: File exists
> 
> options         SYSVSHM                 # SYSV-style shared memory
> options         SYSVMSG                 # SYSV-style message queues
> options         SYSVSEM                 # SYSV-style semaphores
> 
> I also ended up clearing out my .mozilla directory (after taking a
> backup) and also the contents of /usr/local/lib/seamonkey, reinstalling
> seamonkey 2.0, and the crashes persisted so I do not believe it was
> something left behind, although I may have missed something.

It looks like the sem kernel module is not available on FreeBSD 6. Could
you please add "options P1003_1B_SEMAPHORES" to your kernel config as
newer firefox and probably also seamonkey versions require POSIX-style
semaphores.

Thanks,
Beat