Bug 80925

Summary:	Libwww causing firefox and thunderbird to crash
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Peter Dedecker <Peter.Dedecker>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://blog.eikke.com/index.php/peter/2005/02/05/libwww_troubles?blog=10&c=1&page=1&more=1&title=libwww_troubles&tb=1&pb=1&disp=single
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Description Peter Dedecker 2005-02-05 16:20:26 UTC

Because of some incompatibilities between php5 and xoops, I wanted to roll back to php4. Emerge failed (don't know why anymore, I think it was mysqlclient or something like that), but on Gentoo Forums, they suggest a revdep-rebuild. One of those packages to rebuild was libwww. That one didn't rebuild, and again on Gentoo Forums they suggested to unmerge and re-emerge it, so I did, but only the first part of it succeeded: unmerging. Emerging gives output like this:

<snip>
QA Notice: USE Flag 'macos' not in IUSE for net-libs/libwww-5.4.0-r2
You should update your `aclocal.m4' by running aclocal.
Putting files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `config'.
/usr/portage/net-libs/libwww/libwww-5.4.0-r2.ebuild: line 45: aclocal: command not found

So it seems aclocal can't be found. A lookup pointed that I have aclocal 1.5, 1.7, 1.8 and 1.9. I tried to create a symlink named "aclocal" to aclocal-1.9. This results in lots of warnings when emerging libwww, but it compiles. The big problem is, since then, I have crashes (segfaults) of firefox and thunderbird when I'm viewing some sites (like The Register). I created a new symlink to aclocal-1.5, wich made libwww emerging with lots less warnings, but the crashes remain. I searched around in bugzilla and forums but no solution.

I re-emerged automake-wrapper-1, wich made the correct symlink in /usr/bin/aclocal to a wrapper. Now I recieved the message that aclocal-1.4 is needed, so I emerged automake-1.4_p6. Libwww installes, still with lots of aclocal warnings, but it compiles. Firefox and Thunderbird still crash when viewing theregister.com.



Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r2 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1400MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.9
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Oct 17 2004, 20:55:01)]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.6.3, 1.9.4, 1.4_p6, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r4
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.belnet.be/linux/gentoo/ http://194.117.158.30 ftp://mir.zyrianes.net/gentoo/ http://mir.zyrianes.net/gentoo/"
LC_ALL="nl_BE@euro"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cpdflib crypt cupsdga dvd encode esd f77 fam fbcon flac font-server foomaticdb foomaticdv fortrangd gdbm gif gimpprint gphoto2 gpm gtk2 icq imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jabber java jpeg junit kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg msn mysql ncurses network nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline scanner sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb wmf xml xml2 xmms xv zlib linguas_nl linguas_en"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LDFLAGS

Comment 1 Peter Dedecker 2005-02-05 16:35:07 UTC

Oh, I forgot the error when viewing for example theregister.com with firefox:


firefox
No running windows found
/usr/bin/firefox: line 88:  8138 Segmentatie fout        $mozbin "$@"

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-12-22 20:02:22 UTC

Firefox and Thunderbird versions missing, reopen if this is still an issue with up-to-date ebuilds.