Re: firefox-bin dumps core

[Dave Tyson <dtyson%liv.ac.uk@localhost>]

Regarding problems with getting firefox-bin to run under NetBSD 5 on I386
(with default Xorg installation) using pkgsrc-2009Q1

I have done a bit more testing and also copied this mail to pkgsrc-users 

A test run of firefox-linux on another system produced the same core dump. I
then decided to run it in debug mode:

$ firefox-linux --debug
/usr/pkg/lib/firefox-linux/run-mozilla.sh -g 
/usr/pkg/lib/firefox-linux/firefox-bin
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/pkg/lib/firefox-linux
  
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/pkg/lib/firefox-linux:/usr/pkg/lib/firefox-linux/plugins:/usr/local/lib/mre/mre-2.0.0.19:/usr/pkg/lib:/usr/X11R7/lib:/usr/pkg/lib/firefox-linux
DISPLAY=:0.0
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/pkg/lib/firefox-linux:/usr/local/lib/mre/mre-2.0.0.19
     
LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/pkg/lib/firefox-linux:/usr/pkg/lib/firefox-linux/components:/usr/local/lib/mre/mre-2.0.0.19
       SHLIB_PATH=/usr/pkg/lib/firefox-linux:/usr/local/lib/mre/mre-2.0.0.19
          LIBPATH=/usr/pkg/lib/firefox-linux:/usr/local/lib/mre/mre-2.0.0.19
       ADDON_PATH=/usr/pkg/lib/firefox-linux
      MOZ_PROGRAM=/usr/pkg/lib/firefox-linux/firefox-bin
      MOZ_TOOLKIT=
        moz_debug=1
     moz_debugger=
/usr/bin/gdb /usr/pkg/lib/firefox-linux/firefox-bin -x /tmp/mozargs.00566a
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(no debugging symbols found)

(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/pkg/lib/firefox-linux/firefox-bin
warning: no shared library support for this OS / ABI

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xbb5404a7 in ?? ()
(gdb) where
#0  0xbb5404a7 in ?? ()
#1  0xbb597bc8 in ?? ()
#2  0x08a6aad0 in ?? ()
#3  0xbfbff2d8 in ?? ()
#4  0xbb597230 in ?? ()
#5  0x00000000 in ?? ()

The message above regarding 'no shared library support' looks very suspicious.

Has anyone managed to run firefox-bin on an I386 system under NetBSD 5 ?

Its always worked for me on Netbsd 4 (with XFree86) - but it really would like 
it on NetBSD 5 (& Xorg) now!

Regards,
Dave

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