Kernel Panics With Firefox 63.x

[Polytropon]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 19:37:39 +0000, B J wrote:
> On 11/13/18, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 18:28:53 +0000, B J wrote:
> >> On 11/13/18, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 16:44:04 +0000, B J wrote:
> >> >> I recently upgraded my system and that included Firefox.  It's been
> >> >> troublesome ever since.  Often, it would crash for no apparent reason
> >> >> and this morning, it started taking down my entire system.  The result
> >> >> was that my machine would have to reboot.
> >> >>
> >> >> Now I can't use Firefox at all without having my machine going into a
> >> >> kernel panic.
> >> >
> >> > Could you get any useful information from the kernel dump?
> >>
> >> I haven't looked at it in detail.  From the info file in /var/crash:
> >>
> >> Panic String:  ufs_dirbad:  /:  bad dir ino 719 at offset 512:  mangled
> >> entry
> >>
> >> The core.txt file gives a lot more information in detail.
> >
> > Oh! This looks like a file system problem! Even though
> > it sounds strange, file system inconsistencies can cause
> > lots of problems, up to a complete system crash.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Thanks for the info.  It looks like I've got some work ahead of me.
> I'll look into that once I finish building FF from ports which, as I'm
> writing this, is still in progress after about 2 hours.

I'd suggest you interrupt the build right now. It _could_
happen that a file system inconsistency causes a defective
binary to be generated without you noticing. Perform the
forced fsck in SUM first, then "make clean", and finally
restart the build - just to be sure...

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Polytropon
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