> Could someone with a desktop installed on their sparc64 box please
> test the firefox package from experimental and check whether the
> alignment-related crash is still present [1]?
I have bad news, unfortunately. :(
firefox crashes (reproduceably) right after launch, and it seems it might be
something else:
Thread 1 "firefox" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
MOZ_CrashOOL (aLine=<optimized out>, aReason=0xfffff8010a832550
"js::jit::InitProcessExecutableMemory() failed")
at /build/firefox-mXaCXs/firefox-62.0~b10/mfbt/Assertions.cpp:33
33 in /build/firefox-mXaCXs/firefox-62.0~b10/mfbt/Assertions.cpp
(gdb) bt
#0 0x0000010000005948 in MOZ_CrashOOL(int, char const*) (aLine=<optimized
out>, aReason=0xfffff8010a832550 "js::jit::InitProcessExecutableMemory()
failed")
at /build/firefox-mXaCXs/firefox-62.0~b10/mfbt/Assertions.cpp:33
#1 0xfffff80106977070 in NS_InitXPCOM2.part.338 () at
/usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so
#2 0xfffff801094c35f0 in ScopedXPCOMStartup::Initialize() () at
/usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so
#3 0xfffff801094cbcac in XREMain::XRE_main(int, char**,
mozilla::BootstrapConfig const&) () at /usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so
#4 0xfffff801094cc194 in XRE_main(int, char**, mozilla::BootstrapConfig
const&) () at /usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so
#5 0x0000010000006210 in do_main(int, char**, char**) (argc=<optimized out>,
argv=0x7fefffff4a8, envp=0x7fefffff4b8)
at
/build/firefox-mXaCXs/firefox-62.0~b10/build-browser/dist/include/mozilla/UniquePtr.h:326
#6 0x0000010000005a98 in main(int, char**, char**) (argc=<optimized out>,
argv=0x7fefffff4a8, envp=0x7fefffff4b8)
at /build/firefox-mXaCXs/firefox-62.0~b10/browser/app/nsBrowserApp.cpp:311
(gdb) info threads
Id Target Id Frame
* 1 Thread 0xfffff80100042740 (LWP 1552) "firefox" MOZ_CrashOOL
(aLine=<optimized out>, aReason=0xfffff8010a832550
"js::jit::InitProcessExecutableMemory() failed")
at /build/firefox-mXaCXs/firefox-62.0~b10/mfbt/Assertions.cpp:33
2 Thread 0xfffff8010dd6f910 (LWP 1573) "Gecko_IOThread"
0xfffff801009c358c in epoll_wait (epfd=<optimized out>, events=0x700001ea600,
maxevents=<optimized out>,
timeout=<optimized out>) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/epoll_wait.c:30
