Re: pkg/43039: www/epiphany segfaults on start on NetBSD i386 5.0_STABLE

["OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/43039; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/43039: www/epiphany segfaults on start on NetBSD i386
 5.0_STABLE
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 18:03:05 +0900

 On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:40:03 +0900, Matthias Drochner 
<M.Drochner%fz-juelich.de@localhost> wrote:
 
 >  > Core was generated by `epiphany'.
 >  > Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
 >  > #0  0xbb16703b in JSC::Error::create () from /usr/pkg/lib/libwebkit-1.0.s=
 >  o.2
 > That's a known problem (at least to me:-). Javascript in webkit
 >  does crash in any application using it (eg midori, liferea-current).
 >  (That's why I had left epiphany at 2.26.x all the time.)
 >  Unfortunately newer versions of epiphany and midori use javascript
 >  for some internal initialization even if it was disabled for www
 >  display in the preferences dialog.
 >  I've also tried webkit-1.1.22 but it is not better.
 >  (Next idea would be to compile it with a newer g++.)
 
 I've confirmed that if webkit-gtk was configure with --disable-jit and built,
 epiphany and midori works on NetBSD-i386-5.0.2.
 
 How about disable jit for webkit-gtk on platforms known as unusable?
 It works for me on SSD/Linux 0.4 (kernel 2.6.16 glibc 2.3.6 gcc 4.1.2).