Hi Bob, On 27/04/2012, at 12:09 PM, Bob Tracy wrote:
A few moons later, we've got an updated lower bound (release that works): 9.0.1. Built it with optimization, and it works fine -- no lockups. The first release version that *doesn't* work is 10.0, so we're closing in on the problem. All releases >= 10.0 are currently broken on Alpha. As far as optimization vs. no optimization, the only difference Icurrently note is that the old "nsThreadUtils*" patches are required toget a non-optimized build to succeed. I have no explanation for this,but without those patches, a non-optimized build will fail. To say theleast, this is bothersome...
I am fairly certain that the crash is this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=660960The backtraces I got all ended in madvise() --- which is what the bug report is about.
A number of a new iceweasel versions have been uploaded to unstable but they all fail to build on the buildds because we are still waiting for the fixes for:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=650151to be applied. Thus to get a new iceweasel version I have to manually build it with the fixes and upload to the debian-ports unreleased distribution. I might be able to do that again with the latest iceweasel that is in unstable this weekend.
Cheers Michael.