On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:26:52PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > Charles Plessy wrote: >> I am contacting you because you reported crashes with Iceweasel. Do you still >> have this problem? If yes, are you running an up-to-date Lenny system now or >> can you upgrade? > > Yes, the latest iceweasel (3.0.3-2) crashes on the Alpha architecture. I > am running an up-to-date Lenny system. > > I've CCed this to Bob Tracy since he has done quite a bit of work trying > to track down the problem,, that is reported in the debian-alpha mail > list. He may wish to comment further. > > Bob compiled vanilla 3.0.3 firefox sources, and I compiled 3.0.3-g1 > icecat sources for testing (mainly because iceweasel was still back at > 3.0.1 at the time). These also crash. For me the symptom is that the > browser window opens on the screen and then immediately disappears again > with the crash. > > Both Bob and I got working versions of firefox and icecat, respectively, > with a static link of the xul stuff, using --no-relax in the link stage, > and disabling optimisation. The following messages from debian-alpha > mail list discussion are the most relevant. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2008/10/msg00022.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2008/10/msg00024.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2008/10/msg00028.html
Note that we *do* use --no-relax on xulrunner-1.9, but in the CFLAGS. Without it, libxul.so won't build at all ; the same applies to webkit, BTW. OTOH, the crash on alpha may be unrelated to the other crash we're trying to tackle. Could you send a backtrace of yours ? Cheers Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
