Re: firefox-bin dumps core

["Julian H. Stacey" <jhs%berklix.com@localhost>]

Hi,
Reference:
> From:         Dave Tyson <dtyson%liv.ac.uk@localhost> 
> Date:         Wed, 8 Jul 2009 20:04:16 +0100 
> Message-id:   <200907082004.16342.dtyson%liv.ac.uk@localhost> 

Dave Tyson wrote:
> Hi Guys'n'Gals,
> 
> Just installed firefox-bin from pkgsrc-2009Q1 on a NetBSD-5_STABLE system and 
> it just seems to dump core:
> 
> $ firefox-linux
> [1]   Segmentation fault (core dumped) "${prog}" ${1+"$...
> 
> I seem to have the same issue with the openoffice binary :-(
> 
> Linux emulation seems to be working OK as I can invoke /emul/linux/bin/bash
> and that runs fine. Is anyone else seeing this problem or found a way around 
> it. Before the upgrade firefox-bin worked fine with NetBSD-4 so I guess I'm 
> doing something stupid...
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave

I read a similar thing on a FreeBSD list this morning.  I can't remember
which list off hand, but I made this note in my kernel config for later:

/* options      sem             # POSIX semaphores - man 4 sem
 *                              or /boot/loader.conf: sem_load="YES"
 *                              to avoid dump when running www/firefox35
 *                              after the install firefox FF3.5 welcome site
 *                              has an html5 video, which will crash.

Cheers,
Julian
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