Firefox 5 crashes (SIG 11) in realvnc, but works in X

ardya

ardya

Hi folks, anyone else experiencing firefox 5 SIG 11 in realvnc?
Firefox runs fine in local X session, and X11 forward to remote X desktop.
There are no plugins, extensions, etc. installed for firefox.

Tried --sync, same deal. I CAN start firefox with --safe-mode.

Tried disabling, individually, each option presented by the initial firefox dialogue, and collectively all those options, restart firefox, crashes with SIG 11.

Tried rebuilding firefox, no dice. Tried rebuilding vnc, no dice.

Code: 
FreeBSD ws.int.kritek.net 8.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p2 #2 r223036M: Mon Jun 13 12:39:25 EDT 2011     
[email]root@ws.int.kritek.net[/email]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WS  amd64
vnc-4.1.3_4

firefox-5.0,1

I have a core file if needed.

Thanks
 
Does it also crash using X11 forwarding with compression? Have you tried other vnc clients or a different desktop environment? I would suggest changing over from vnc to nx instead. Harder to setup but works well with good security.
 
davidgurvich said:
Does it also crash using X11 forwarding with compression? Have you tried other vnc clients or a different desktop environment? I would suggest changing over from vnc to nx instead. Harder to setup but works well with good security.
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window managers tested in the vnc session: e16, twm
 
Have you tried a different browser? I recall having some similar issue years ago and konqueror (3.5) worked while firefox (3.0) failed. There was some library change in firefox which caused a problem with certain window managers over vnc.

Have you tried X11 forwarding with compression over ssh?
 
davidgurvich said:
Have you tried a different browser? I recall having some similar issue years ago and konqueror(3.5) worked while firefox(3.0) failed. There was some library change in firefox which caused a problem with certain window managers over vnc.

Have you tried X11 forwarding with compression over ssh?
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X11 forwarding works, as does running firefox in local X session (e16 and twm). Issue is only in vnc, and only started recently (within last couple/few weeks).
 
Sounds like a reasonable culprit. Do you recall about how many ports got rebuilt and if anything in the base system was replaced?

Have you tried installing the binary packages for 8.2? I've frequently recovered from some of these fiascos by using sysinstall and/or building packages of the existing ports prior to upgrading.

I try to never do large upgrades on anything but a system that I don't mind hosing. A good way to test is by setting up a jail or chroot. Then you still have a working environment if the upgrade fails in some fashion.
 
I followed the directions per /usr/ports/UPDATING:


Code: 
  # pkg_delete -f gtk-2.\*
  # portmaster x11-toolkits/gtk20
  # portmaster -a

there were no problems.

And just to make sure, I rebuilt firefox against the newly upgraded gtk20 and friends.
 
I've had occasions where doing a global rebuild replaces something in base or fails to account for something. Also, new builds introduce new bugs. My tendency is to use the binary packages and only build from the ports when there's something wrong with the package.
 
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