Mozilla suite stability on 2.4/2009Q4

[Chris Turner]

Dang.. I am not on top of my email fer sure.

These are locally built, Q4 in a spoofed 2.4 chroot on a 2.5 host.

(e.g. cd /usr/src/stable && make install DESTDIR=/foo
  && env UNAME_r chroot $DESTDIR)
Sooo, I wouldn't take this too seriously
as I certainly haven't investigated all the possibilities on my end!
Was just kind of putting out feelers if anyone had seen anything
anecdotally before I go chasing this sucker down.
Seems to be all my GTK-or-perhaps-gnome apps -
as evince has been crashing in a similar way too.
Do I need some new GNOME infrastructure stuff of late.. -
I have no idea what kind of daemons gnome is actually requiring
these days.. a quick ps reveals there is no 'bonobo-activation-server'.. 
but I still launch a 'gnome-settings-daemon' in my .Xinitrc, and dbus is
running just fine.. hmm.

(use a windowmaker + nautilus kludge-top)

though that being said I did muck around with fonts lately..

hmm.

Pointers welcome! and thanks much.

- Chris

	Matthew Dillon wrote:
:Hello all
:
:I recently (finally!) upgraded my main dev system to local builds of
:both 2.4.1 and 2009Q4 pkgsrc packages -
:
:Since doing this, I've been getting a ton of firefox / thunderbird
:crashes. I've tried disabling my plugins, etc. but this isn't
:helping too much - the crashes are confined to these applications,
:so I'm thinking it's something XUL specific perhaps, or perhaps
:some interaction between e.g. XUL, DBus and the like,
:but I'm really at a loss for what is happening..
:
:I'm in the process of getting wip/firefox to build, etc
:to test other scenarios, and I'll be testing the official
:packages later, but in the meantime I thought I'd ask if anyone
:had any similar experiences?
:
:(as I'd like my own builds to work anyway :))
:
:Thanks in advance,
:
:- Chris
    Are you using the binary packages from Avalon or did you build
    firefox from /usr/pkgsrc from scratch?
    I'm thinking we may have introduced some structural incompatibility
    between 2.4 and 2.5 that is causing the Q4 binaries built on 2.5
    to fail on 2.4.
					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at backplane.com>