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From: Javi Moreno <vierito5@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] firefox-bin crashing a few times every day
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:44:42
Message-Id: 4d192b620710291041m57573c25i854b76b5c7aebc68@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] firefox-bin crashing a few times every day by Mark Knecht
1 It also happens to me many times, only with the 32bit versión in my 64bit
2 machine.
3
4 In my case, it's random, when entering diferents websites, at diferent
5 times, with diferent actions, some days 10 ten times, some weeks never and
6 so on.
7
8
9 On 10/29/07, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
10 >
11 > Hi,
12 > I'm wondering if anyone else is suffering the problems I am with
13 > firefox-bin crashing a few times every day. It seems to be more or
14 > less repeatable. After logging into Gnome for the first time if I have
15 > two tabs and attempt to drag one tab to a different location then it
16 > crashes. Not every time, but often. When I start firefox-bin a second
17 > time it recognizes that it crashed, restarts the previous session, and
18 > at this point it doesn't crash if I drag tabs around.
19 >
20 > I have also had this happen multiple times hitting an Attach File
21 > button in GMail.
22 >
23 > I will say that this seems to have started roughly after the last
24 > time I wrote to the list asking about Java & Flash support. I changed
25 > a number of things at that time & I can go back and look them up if
26 > folks think it's really involved. However this seems a strange thing
27 > to blame on Java or Flash. That work is still in .bash_history so I
28 > can at least get a rough idea of what I was doing if it seems
29 > important.
30 >
31 > There is little to configure for firefox-bin itself. I've attached
32 > the emerge command for reference.
33 >
34 > I've tried running firefox-bin in a terminal but I don't get any
35 > info. I should probably learn how to use something like gdb but I'm
36 > resistant.
37 >
38 > Anyway, I'm mainly looking for ideas about what to consider looking
39 > at to fix this. It's getting frustrating. It crashed 4 times
40 > yesterday.
41 >
42 > Thanks,
43 > Mark
44 >
45 > lightning ~ # emerge -pv mozilla-firefox-bin
46 >
47 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
48 >
49 > Calculating dependencies... done!
50 > [ebuild R ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-2.0.0.8
51 > USE="-restrict-javascript" LINGUAS="-af -ar -be -bg -ca -cs -da -de
52 > -el -en_GB -es -es_AR -es_ES -eu -fi -fr -fy -fy_NL -ga -ga_IE -gu
53 > -gu_IN -he -hu -it -ja -ka -ko -ku -lt -mk -mn -nb -nb_NO -nl -nn
54 > -nn_NO -pa -pa_IN -pl -pt -pt_BR -pt_PT -ro -ru -sk -sl -sv -sv_SE -tr
55 > -zh -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 kB
56 >
57 > Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
58 > lightning ~ #
59 > --
60 > gentoo-amd64@g.o mailing list
61 >
62 >

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] firefox-bin crashing a few times every day Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>