raingloom <raingl...@riseup.net> writes:
> On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 00:57:39 +0200
> raingloom <raingl...@riseup.net> wrote:
>
> Well, what ended up working was deleting a bunch of file from the
> profile directory. No idea which deletion made it work and at this
> point I just wanna crawl back to Netsurf.
> Can't say I'd recommend this workaround to regular users, but if you
> can guess what those files are, you should be safe.
Thanks to raingloom, we know that deleting some parts of the profile can
work around the segfault. I set out to find the minimal part of my
profile that I could delete while still working around the
segfault.
All I had to delete was the line
user_pref("network.captive-portal-service.enabled", true);
from ~/.mozilla/icecat/$my-profile/prefs.js.
Methodology: I put my whole profile into a git repo, then deleted it file
by file with
for i in * ; do
rm $i
git commit -am "Remove $i"
done
then I used git bisect to find which file(s) had to be deleted before
icecat wouldn't segfault.
Once I had a set of files whose deletion avoided the segfault, I
minimized that set by "un"deleting them by git reverting the commits
that deleted them. Eventually I undeleted all the files in the set
except prefs.js.
I then bisected on the lines in prefs.js, this time manually. I found
that the deletion of just the network.captive-portal-service.enabled
pref is sufficient to avoid the segfault.
I tested this with icecat 78.4.0-guix0-preview1.
$ guix describe
Generation 318 Nov 12 2020 07:36:51 (current)
...
guix 07914de
repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
branch: master
commit: 07914def98ca0d148e3522466227304e45286786
