Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] How can I capture enough debug info to make a good bug report?
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:54:21
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b0710020943nd3f0120yca9e5c2be6ac3684@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] How can I capture enough debug info to make a good bug report? by Rodolphe Rocca
1 On 10/2/07, Rodolphe Rocca <fake2@××××.fr> wrote:
2 > Mark Knecht wrote:
3 > > Hi,
4 > > On a subscriber web site I am seeing a consistent problem with both
5 > > Firefox & Firefox-bin. When I click a specific link the browser
6 > > crashes with a seg fault:
7 > >
8 > > mark@lightning ~ $ firefox-bin
9 > > No running windows found
10 > > /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119: 6108 Segmentation fault
11 > > $(type -P aoss) "$mozbin" "$@"
12 > > firefox-bin exited with non-zero status (139)
13 > > mark@lightning ~ $ firefox
14 > > No running windows found
15 > > Removing /home/mark/.mozilla/firefox/ipm4osof.default/compreg.dat
16 > > leftover from older firefox
17 > > /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119: 6149 Segmentation fault
18 > > $(type -P aoss) "$mozbin" "$@"
19 > > firefox-bin exited with non-zero status (139)
20 > > mark@lightning ~ $
21 > >
22 > > Note that I see Firefox crashing on my Windows Vista box also, but
23 > > Internet Explorer does not, so this doesn't seem to me to be a Linux
24 > > issue specifically.
25 > >
26 > > How can I get enough info to pass along to someone and have it be useful?
27 > >
28 >
29 > 1) Remerge firefox with the debug use flag
30 > 2) rebuild your kernel (if needed) with CONFIG_ELF_CORE=y
31 > 3) reboot
32 > 4) connect your page
33 >
34 > The segfault should produce a core file that you could send to firefox devs.
35 >
36 > If I forgot something, guys, please correct me.
37 > --
38 > gentoo-amd64@g.o mailing list
39
40 Will this work? I'm on a 64-bit machine. These web sites all require
41 flash and Java. For the most part I still feel like flash and Java
42 just don't work correctly on 64-bit, and maybe not even on 32-bit.
43
44 Anyway, there is no debug flag on filefox-bin which I think is 32-bit
45 and is crashing. I'm willing to rebuild if necessary but I think I
46 want to try and get some more info first.
47
48 Thanks!
49
50 Cheers,
51 Mark
52
53 lightning ~ # emerge -pv mozilla-firefox-bin
54
55 These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
56
57 Calculating dependencies... done!
58 [ebuild R ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-2.0.0.6
59 USE="-restrict-javascript" LINGUAS="-af -ar -be -bg -ca -cs -da -de
60 -el -en_GB -es -es_AR -es_ES -eu -fi -fr -fy -fy_NL -ga -ga_IE -gu
61 -gu_IN -he -hu -it -ja -ka -ko -ku -lt -mk -mn -nb -nb_NO -nl -nn
62 -nn_NO -pa -pa_IN -pl -pt -pt_BR -pt_PT -ro -ru -sk -sl -sv -sv_SE -tr
63 -zh -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 kB
64
65 Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
66 lightning ~ # emerge -pv mozilla-firefox
67
68 These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
69
70 Calculating dependencies... done!
71 [ebuild R ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.7 USE="gnome java
72 -bindist -debug -filepicker -ipv6 -mozdevelop -moznopango
73 -restrict-javascript -xforms -xinerama -xprint" LINGUAS="-af -ar -be
74 -bg -ca -cs -da -de -el -en_GB -es -es_AR -es_ES -eu -fi -fr -fy
75 -fy_NL -ga -ga_IE -gu -gu_IN -he -hu -it -ja -ka -ko -ku -lt -mk -mn
76 -nb -nb_NO -nl -nn -nn_NO -pa -pa_IN -pl -pt -pt_BR -pt_PT -ro -ru -sk
77 -sl -sv -sv_SE -tr -zh -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 kB
78
79 Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
80 lightning ~ #
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