Re: Firefox 133 test package for ppc64
It's challenging to debug firefox.
I have 3.5G of RAM, and I added an 8G swapfile, and with that firefox will run under gdb but it takes 15-18 minutes for firefox to start. It uses a lot of swapfile.
Then when you start interacting with is (eg ask it to open a website) it does a hard crash and locks up the system, with no opportunity to backtrace.
Turns out gdb logging is off by default -- I'll turn that on and see if I can capture anything before it downs the system.
K
On 2025-05-12, at 10:36 AM, Ken Cunningham wrote:
> It has been working fine up to now, Firefox works fine with MATE, and other progs are not crashing -- but I haven't run the Apple HW test CD on this system in a while, not since I replaced the processors after the last time I changed the power supply about two years ago.
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> I'll see if I can get the gdb run done in the next day or two.
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> Hopefully some others can chime in further with findings on their own systems to support / refute their own findings.
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> Ken
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> On 2025-05-12, at 10:19 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> On Mon, 2025-05-12 at 10:02 -0700, Ken Cunningham wrote:
>>> I'll see if I can get it to run under gdb.
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>>> It's a deep, hard crash -- entire system locked up, no way to reboot,
>>> can't log in via SSH, nothing.
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>>> And nothing displayed in the terminal window to indicate what happened.
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>> Did you verify that the RAM of the system and the GPU are okay?
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>> Adrian
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>> .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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