www/firefox35 coredumps every time at startup

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:21:16 -0500, Heino Tiedemann  
<rotkaps_spam_trap at gmx.de> wrote:

> Heino Tiedemann <rotkap at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Any Ideas? Is somewone working on it?

It looks like firefox35 or somewhere has missed to compile with -pthread.

> What can I Do?

Upgrade to FreeBSD 7.x or above. I am not kidding. FreeBSD 7.x and above  
are heck a lot better than 6.x. Those don't have any problem, which  
FreeBSD 6.x has some bugs or missing feature that force some stuff to  
compile with -pthread when it's not need.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Heino


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