Firefox 21.0 Crash

[Cy Schubert]

In message <201305220036.r4M0aIp4020735 at slippy.cwsent.com>, Cy Schubert 
writes:
> In message <997344171-1369083778-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-10
> 735
> 04366- at b17.c23.bise6.blackberry>, "Cy Schubert" writes:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm experiencing firefox crashes since updating to 21.0. It works properly 
> fo
> > llowing the restore of my ~/.mozilla directory however subsequently it cras
> he
> > s on start-up or shortly thereafter. Googling firefox 21.0 crash brings up 
> fo
> > ur or five hits at the Mozilla support forums site, so this may need to be 
> es
> > calated to our upline (I'd open a PR but I'm away from my computer at the m
> om
> > ent). Can our Gecko team bring this up with our upline?
> > 
> > A couple of data points. I can reproduce this at will on two laptop compute
> rs
> > . However, exporting DISPLAY on a server downstairs and running it from the
> re
> >  works. Sometimes it will die due to an XCB error while other times it's du
> e 
> > to multiple segfaults. I think this should be brought to the attention of o
> ur
> >  upline.
> > 
> > Please cc me at Cy.Schubert at komquats.com (or cy at FreeBSD.org) as I don't nor
> ma
> > lly use my Blackberry (gmail account) for FreeBSD related emails. Thanks.
> 
> It appears building with clang-devel produces a stable firefox binary. It 
> may yet prove me wrong and start causing me trouble later but at the moment 
> this seems to be the fix.

I spoke to soon. After restarting it for the fourth time it's crashing 
again. I suspect it corrupts its chrome after a while. Need to dig a bit 
further when I get the time.


-- 
Cheers,
Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at komquats.com>
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