Re: Firefox stability?

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On 10 January 2017 at 17:36, John D. Baker <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Since I was resigned to nuke everything and start over anyway, I decided
> to double-check by rebuilding everything from scratch using pkgsrc-2016Q4.
>
> The resulting firefox-50.1.0 does not hang when engaging the print function.
>
> So the problem was apparently some local glitch in a dependency that
> caused firefox to misbehave.  I'll blame the squirrels.  I don't recall
> a power outage during the run of 'pkg_rolling-replace' that eventually
> produced my faulty firefox, but I've slept since then.
>
> The build/test machine is not on a UPS, so it's entirely possible that
> a power-outage at just the wrong time left a glitch in a package.  I
> had thought that difficult since my WRKOBJDIR is on tmpfs which should
> be completely nuked by power loss.  My PACKAGES directory is on spinning
> rust (RAID-5 via amr(4) SCSI RAID controller) using FFSv2 and mounted with
> "-olog,nodev,nosuid".
>
> Now to rebuild the rest of my usual complement.


As a data point I see a similar hang with packages built on the 4th
December. Updating for a new test now...