On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 01:46:03AM +0200, Jan Beich wrote: > Konstantin Belousov <[email protected]> writes: > > > I rushed to upgrade the firefox port due to reported pdf issues, and > > I get a source of serious troubles. All this happens on the up to date > > stable/10 amd64 machine, all ports are from HEAD and also up to date. > > Even if I did update to 39.0.3 which only fixed pdf issues this would > still came up in less than a week. 40.0 official announcment is > scheduled for 2015-08-11 when new vulnerabilities would be disclosed. > The release candidate currently used will likely be the final version. > > If you rush for security fixes it's good to have more of them, right? > > > Updated firefox crashes randomly, usually in several minutes after the > > startup. I ensured that there is no ABI-incompatible libraries linked > > or loaded by the binary (e.g. libc++ and libstdc++, lib/compat/pkg- > > originated libs etc). The dumped core' backtrace shows that there was > > something wrong in libxul.so, so I enabled debugging in the ports > > options and recompiled the firefox. > > > > Now, the browser does not even starts. The following is printed on > > the startup: > > I don't recommend using DEBUG option. It does too much (sanity checks, > online backtrace, non-optimized codepaths, tampers CFLAGS, debug > symbols, etc) which makes firefox too verbose with false positives and > known issues mixed in. Some debugging features maybe unstable on FreeBSD. > > Better manually add symbols with the following in make.conf (or > Makefile.local) > > STRIP = # empty > CFLAGS += -g -fno-omit-frame-pointer > OPTIONS_UNSET += OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS > > As for the crash I suspect OMTC related to our use of system cairo which > is not tested upstream. In the past system version caused issues like > broken build, rendering artifacts and runtime warnings. So, try > > # www/firefox/Makefile.local > USE_MOZILLA += -cairo # use bundled cairo > > with and without the following patch (or just tweak pref in about:config) > > --- modules/libpref/moz.build.orig 2015-08-06 22:39:34 UTC > +++ modules/libpref/moz.build > @@ -42,5 +42,6 @@ FINAL_LIBRARY = 'xul' > > DEFINES['OS_ARCH'] = CONFIG['OS_ARCH'] > DEFINES['MOZ_WIDGET_TOOLKIT'] = CONFIG['MOZ_WIDGET_TOOLKIT'] > +DEFINES['MOZ_TREE_CAIRO'] = CONFIG['MOZ_TREE_CAIRO'] > > FAIL_ON_WARNINGS = True > --- modules/libpref/init/all.js.orig 2015-08-06 22:39:34 UTC > +++ modules/libpref/init/all.js > @@ -4052,7 +4052,12 @@ pref("layers.max-active", -1); > pref("layers.tiles.adjust", true); > > // Set the default values, and then override per-platform as needed > +#ifdef MOZ_TREE_CAIRO > pref("layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled", true); > +#else > +// OMTC causes frequent crashes with system cairo > +pref("layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled", false); > +#endif > // Compositor target frame rate. NOTE: If vsync is enabled the compositor > // frame rate will still be capped. > // -1 -> default (match layout.frame_rate or 60 FPS)
It seems that just flipping the layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled in the about:config is enough to get usable browser. It stays for a hour already, while before it dumped core in not more than 10 minutes. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gecko To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
