Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes on some www-pages on a newer Gentoo system

[gevisz]

2018-08-02 3:16 GMT+03:00 Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com>:
>> > I would do something like 'emerge -1 xorg-server xorg-drivers
>> > @x11-module-rebuild mesa llvm clang' then restart X and try again.
>>
>> Thank you for your reply.
>>
>> Initially, I understood the above recomendation as the suggestion to
>> rebuild the packages mentioned above with different use flags.
>>
>> Do you think that rebuilding them with the same use flags may help?
>
>
> It can, for example, if the major version of the kernel has changed but you
> havent rebuild xorg since (I only recall having this issue once).

Ok, thank you. I will try to do it in a two weeks.
(Currently, is still too hot to start so massive recompilation.)

> If you use newuse and changed-deps with emerge its probably less likely to
> find other issues.
>
>>
>> The said problem appeared just since the intallation of the new
>> Gentoo system in January-February 2018 and not since changing
>> the major version of gcc this spring.
>>
>> P.S. clang is not installed on my Gentoo system at all.
>>
>
> I've checked the dependencies on my system, and firefox is pulling that in
> for me, but checking the ebuilds you can see it becomes a dependency from
> v60 onwards;
>
> /usr/portage/www-client/firefox $ ls
> files/               firefox-52.9.0.ebuild   Manifest
> firefox-52.6.0.ebuild  firefox-60.1.0.ebuild   metadata.xml
> firefox-52.8.0.ebuild  firefox-61.0-r1.ebuild
> /usr/portage/www-client/firefox $ grep clang *
> grep: files: Is a directory
> firefox-60.1.0.ebuild:    >=sys-devel/clang-4.0.1
> firefox-60.1.0.ebuild:    has_version "sys-devel/clang:${LLVM_SLOT}"
> firefox-61.0-r1.ebuild:    >=sys-devel/clang-4.0.1
> firefox-61.0-r1.ebuild:    has_version "sys-devel/clang:${LLVM_SLOT}"
> /usr/portage/www-client/firefox $

Ok, thank you. I still have FF version 5.8.0 (64 bit).
It is the latest stable version on amd64.