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From: "András Csányi" <sayusi.ando@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 05:14:07
Message-Id: AANLkTinAkTZh4op6YvGKGub1Q2Z+0-V1yDfrb5=8kJ8O@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox. by Beau Henderson
1 On 21 September 2010 00:23, Beau Henderson <beau@××××××××××××.com> wrote:
2 > On 09/19/10 20:02, András Csányi wrote:
3 >>
4 >> On 19 September 2010 10:09, Alan McKinnon<alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>  wrote:
5 >>>
6 >>> Apparently, though unproven, at 00:28 on Sunday 19 September 2010, András
7 >>> Csányi did opine thusly:
8 >>>
9 >>>> On 19 September 2010 00:14, Kevin O'Gorman<kogorman@×××××.com>  wrote:
10 >>>>>
11 >>>>> Is it just me?  Or does Firefox get slower every release?  And less
12 >>>>> stable.
13 >>>>>
14 >>>>> I got myself up to the latest, and I cannot install my 4 add-ons
15 >>>>> (xmarks,
16 >>>>> AdBlockPlus, Noscript, Stumble-upon) without it crashing.  Seg fault
17 >>>>> sometimes.  I've got ECC memory, and no reported problems, and it does
18 >>>>> not help to clear the profiles (rename ~/.mozilla)  and re-emerge.
19 >>>>> Grrrrrr.
20 >>>>
21 >>>> Use Chrome/Chromium. At my gentoo the fox won't even start. I don't
22 >>>> know why, I won't to know why... I'm tired about Firefox. :S
23 >>>
24 >>>
25 >>> If you run Firefox from a terminal, do you get an error about xpcom?
26 >>>
27 >>> If so, you need revdep-rebuild and possibly re-merge nss.
28 >>> It's all in the build elogs.
29 >>
30 >> Hi Alan,
31 >>
32 >> I have tried to start from terminal, but no message. I have tried to
33 >> run after revdep-rebuild but nothing. I have installed binary version
34 >> but the result was the same.
35 >> After these I have tried strace and if I remenber correctly it stopped
36 >> with segmentation fault. Unfortunately I can't reproduce this problem
37 >> because few days ago I changed my system from 32 bit to 64 bit. Here
38 >> everything is working fine according firefox.
39 >>
40 >> I know I should have report it but, that time, I was really tired
41 >> emotionally. :(
42 >>
43 >
44 > I had this same problem and decided I had bad RAM. Before I could order any,
45 > I rebuild my system and it happens that I did so with an image that had GCC
46 > 4.3* rather than 4.4. Funny enough, firefox worked just fine. I did some
47 > searching and apparently nspr has issues with a certain function enabled in
48 > -O2 @ gcc 4.4.
49 >
50 > From the following: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487844
51 >
52 > Apparently if you rebuild nspr @ gcc 4.4 with -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing
53 >
54 > I haven't confirmed this, as I haven't had time to jump back to 4.4 but if
55 > someone can confirm this fixes the issue, I'd certainly be greatful!
56
57 Hmmm... My former system was compiled with -O3 and gcc version was the
58 highest because I always use unstable system.
59
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