On 06/02/2014 06:28 PM, thorsten wrote: > >> >> Tried 29.0.1 on recent svn x86_64 (Quedlinburg), looked at several >> flats. Tried 29.0.1 on i686 LFS-7.4 (Rostock), and on i686 recent >> svn (Bad Doberan). No crashes. One of the Bad Doberan offerings >> had a video, but that needs flash which I don't have. >> >> For Frankfurt I imagine there are far more flats listed, and >> therefore more scope for oddities in the pages. >> >> I do remember that firefox has crashed at least twice in recent >> months when looking at sourceforge download pages. But not >> repeatedly, each time my second attempt was fine [ i.e. these were >> the project page, or the page listing all the available files for >> the project, not any particular mirror ]. >> >> So, I cannot confirm the problem. >> >> ĸen > > Hello again Ken, > > I have no idea why these crashes happened with my unpatched cairo while > others do not get them. Different cairo versions? Some using the xcb > backend, others not? My crashes are fixed with the patch, if it helps > others with the same problem -- great. > > With the next cairo release the fix should be included, so everything is > good. > > thanks for looking into this, > > thorsten >
I see you mentioning cairo and I fail to notice how cairo would crash firefox because firefox uses its bundled one by default unless you specify --enable-system-cairo, which is commented out in the book. Did you enable that one? It causes more problems than it really solves ... -- Note: My last name is not Krejzi. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
