Bug 137683 – firefox fails to run with -ftree-vectorize on x86

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Dan 2006-06-22 20:23:57 UTC]

It will segfault at start, I do not have the error anymore, It went away after rebuilding without it however.

Portage 2.1.1_pre1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.16-ck10-20060514 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.16-ck10-20060514 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.16
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -ggdb"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -ggdb"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/  http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,-Bdirect -Wl,-z,now"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/initng-portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cjk cli crypt cups curl dri eds emboss encode fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glitz gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imlib ipod ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde kdehiddenvisibility libg++ libwww mad mikmod mono motif mp3 mpeg musicbrainz ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png pppd python qt quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis win32codecs xine xml2 xmms xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia video_cards_nv video_cards_vesa"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Jory A. Pratt 2006-06-22 20:29:17 UTC]

Post a bug without proper info and I will decline any action.

[Comment 2 Dan 2006-06-22 20:32:58 UTC]

What proper info do you need?

I tried to get a backtrace when it was segfaulting, but I couldn't determine where the actual firefox binary was, there are so many layers of scripts and launchers.

[Comment 3 basic 2006-06-24 09:45:07 UTC]

try running firefox with -g (firefox -g -d gdb)

[Comment 4 Dan 2006-06-24 18:57:38 UTC]

It appears that this bug is a conflict between firefox and something else somewhere in the system.  I managed to get firefox to run fine recompiling just it with -ftree-vectorize, and do not really feel up to recompiling my whole system once just to find a break to recompile my whole system again.

Appologies for the noise.  If I run across it again I'll renew the information in this bug.