On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:32:40 +0000 "O. Hartmann" <ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Since the introduction of Thunderbird 3.0 and Firefox 3.6 I see > spontanous crashes/coredumps of both thunderbird and firefox. Interingly > Firefox 3.5.X works well on he same platform. > > The platform is a FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE/amd64 (r205536: Tue Mar 23 22:19:04 > CET 2010), SMP box with 8GB of RAM, QuadCore Intel Q6600 on a P35-based > motherboard. > > Thunderbird 3 crashes rarely compared to Firefox 3. The longer the > application thunderbird runs, the higher the likelyhood the app crashes > and vanishes. Sometimes this happens immediately after starting > thunderbird, sometimes it takes its few minutes or half an hour. > > Firefox 3 is sensitive to its pull-down menus or requester showing up in > some situations. I can provoke a crash by clicking onto a pull-down-menu > in firefox 3, it immediately dumps a core. > If you suspect the graphics card's driver is at fault then I would try linux-opera or even linux-firefox and see whether it also dies when you use a drop-down menu. Another possibility would be to set hw.physmem to say 3G or 4G in loader.conf and see whether that affects thunderbird/firefox. Who knows, there may some weird problem caused by all that memory? That would a fairly quick and cheap way to test this. -- Gary Jennejohn _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
