On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 08:09:29AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:26:52PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > > Charles Plessy wrote: > >> I am contacting you because you reported crashes with Iceweasel. Do you > >> still > >> have this problem? If yes, are you running an up-to-date Lenny system now > >> or > >> can you upgrade? > > > > Yes, the latest iceweasel (3.0.3-2) crashes on the Alpha architecture. I > > am running an up-to-date Lenny system. > > > > I've CCed this to Bob Tracy since he has done quite a bit of work trying > > to track down the problem,, that is reported in the debian-alpha mail > > list. He may wish to comment further. > > > > Bob compiled vanilla 3.0.3 firefox sources, and I compiled 3.0.3-g1 > > icecat sources for testing (mainly because iceweasel was still back at > > 3.0.1 at the time). These also crash. For me the symptom is that the > > browser window opens on the screen and then immediately disappears again > > with the crash. > > > > Both Bob and I got working versions of firefox and icecat, respectively, > > with a static link of the xul stuff, using --no-relax in the link stage, > > and disabling optimisation. The following messages from debian-alpha > > mail list discussion are the most relevant. > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2008/10/msg00022.html > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2008/10/msg00024.html > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2008/10/msg00028.html > > Note that we *do* use --no-relax on xulrunner-1.9, but in the CFLAGS. > Without it, libxul.so won't build at all ; the same applies to webkit, > BTW. > > OTOH, the crash on alpha may be unrelated to the other crash we're > trying to tackle.
I could reproduce the crash on alpha and spotted it to be caused by apparently bad g++ optimization on alpha. Adding: MOZ_OPTIMIZE_FLAGS := -O0 in xulrunner's toolkit/components/url-classifier/src/Makefile.in makes iceweasel work properly on albeniz.debian.org. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
