Re: firefox dumping core after NetBSD upgrade

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 11:16:45AM +0000, maya%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 10:49:58AM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote:
> > 
> > maya%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
> > >On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 08:41:49AM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote:
> > >> On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 11:05:57 -0700
> > >> bch <brad.harder%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> > >> 
> > >> > I quit running Firefox on my (-current) laptop months ago because the
> > >> > build process (rust, esp) was so brutal. Have there been any
> > >> > community efforts to organize the build artifacts from bleeding-edge
> > >> > environments to avoid repeating (and failing, in my case) this most
> > >> > horrible build?
> > >> 
> > >> What's the alternative, I've not used NetBSD for desktop tasks for a
> > >> while now, but I wish recent Opera browser was available for NetBSD. I
> > >> suppose you could run it with Linux emulation, but not sure how well it
> > >> works on NetBSD. Last time I tried, which was years ago, there were
> > >> some display issues, i.e. scrolling text up/down would produce these
> > >> annoying lagging artefacts, etc.
> > >
> > >Firefox works great. The discussion here isn't about firefox being
> > >broken on netbsd, it's being broken across an update. That usually
> > >happens due to some kind of binary incompatibility being introduced.
> > 
> > I'm not sure this is down to a binary incompatibility.
> > 
> > I started seeing the same thing recently too even when Firefox and all
> > its dependencies have been rebuilt from source.
> > 
> > Google Maps triggers it for me.
> 
> You've also stated that glxgears crashes, so it might be the same
> problem.  Are you building netbsd in a special way?

I've also had problems with firefox on netbsd-8; I had the same problems with
a netbsd-8 binary on a -9 systems. I suspect it's related to X11 DRI libraries.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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