Mozilla/Galeon crashes on some urls with freetype 2.1.4 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030427 Tested with GTK2 support, without GTK2 support, with USE="*" and with USE="-*". Tested with mozilla-1.2.1-r5.ebuild, mozilla-1.3-r1.ebuild and galeon-1.2.8.ebuild. Examples of URLs where Mozilla/Galeon crashes : - http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xml-guide.xml and all the other english guides - http://www.miscmag.com - http://tv.wip.wanadoo.fr - http://www.melissamars.com when you have 'net-www/netscape-flash' installed on your system, if not, mozilla/galeon doesn't crash. But several websites using Flash (Macromedia Shockwave Flash Player) runs without problems. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Make sure you have freetype 2.1.4 installed 2. Install Mozilla/Galeon 3. Run Mozilla/Galeon and visit urls indicated Actual Results: Mozilla/Galeon crashes violently (program killed) Expected Results: Mozilla/Galeon opens url Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+ GENTOO_MIRRORS=" http://212.219.56.146/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="guile perl esd mozilla ldap x86 oss alsa -3dnow apm -arts avi berkdb crypt -cups -encode gdbm gif -gpm gtk gtk2 imlib -java jpeg -kde gnome -libg++ libwww mikmod -mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib png python -qt -quicktime readline sdl slang -spell ssl svga tcpd truetype X xml2 xmms xv zlib" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
The solution is : emerge freetype-2.1.3-r2.ebuild for downgraded from 2.1.4 to 2.1.3-r2 and modify your /var/cache/edb/world (or --inject option) for the next emerge -u world.
i had the same trouble, the solution worked for me.
This same activity is also evident on any theregister.co.uk article.
Please try with fontconfig-2.2.0-r1 and freetype-2.1.4.
Sorry but I haven't any time now, if somebody wants to try...
Have just tried this, and it still appears to fall over.
can you get a backtrace with debug info of mozilla crashing ? i can't reproduce crashing, except for flash page, but i rather blame flash there.
Should I have recompiled mozilla against the new libraries? Is there a webpage giving information on performing the backtrace you suggest? As you may have guessed, I am new to this :-)
best would probably be to add 'debugbuild' to the inherit line in the ebuild and then build mozilla like this 'DEBUGBUILD="yes" emerge mozilla' Run it in gdb and enter 'bt' when you crash. And no you shouldnt have to recompile mozilla to work with these libs. Why do you use a different cpu for your CXX flags btw, don't think it should matter, but it is sorta weird. You might want to try compile mozilla a bit more conservative as well, to make it more stable ('-march=athlon -O2' or something).
Ok - Just been playing and it all appears to work now!
tried with mozilla-1.3, freetype-2.1.4 and fontconfig-2.2.0-r1 : it worked.
nothing a recompile can't fix it seems. closing as nonreproducable
