Re: Mozilla V1.3.1 crashing on FreeBSD 5.1-C (older cvsup level)

From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus_at_marcuscom.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 17:10:58 -0400
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 10:18, Tom Parquette wrote:
> Joe,
> I cvsuped my ports tree and portupgraded mozilla and mozilla-gtk2 (I 
> never noticed there were two flavors installed until now.)
> As a quick sidenote, the descriptions of the two ports are functionally 
> identical.  I noticed minor toolbar differences and some font 
> differences and in the tests that I'm going to describe mozilla-gtk2 
> appears more resilient.   Is one recommended over the other?
> 
> Getting back to business...
> Using Mozilla-gtk2 (v1.4):
> A window appears with "Default Plugin" in the title bar.
> The exact text is: This page contains information of a type
> (application/x-shockwave-flash) that can only be viewed with
> the appropriate Plug-in.  Click OK to download Plugin."
>  
> 
> When I close out of Mozilla-gtk2 the following appears in the terminal 
> window:
> $ mozilla-gtk2
> No running window found.
> /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
>  
> 
> (mozilla-bin:62160): Gtk-WARNING **: A floating object was finalized.
> This means that someone called g_object_unref() on an object that had
> only a floating reference; the initial floating reference is not owned
> by anyone and must be removed with gtk_object_sink() after a normal
> reference is obtained with g_object_ref().
> $

Could be a problem with your gtk12 port.  You might try rebuilding it.

>  
> 
> I don't know if this is something I have to worry about.
> The plus side is, Mozilla-gtk2 (v1.4) does not crash.
>  
> 
> When I try Mozilla V1.4 I can very briefly see the page painting before
> mozilla crashes.  The messages are a little different:
> $ mozilla
> No running window found.
> /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
> open dsp: No such file or directory
> Gdk-ERROR **: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)
>    serial 26 error_code 10 request_code 147 minor_code 1
> $ echo $DISPLAY
> Stargate.Tom.Parquette.name:0
> $
>  
> 
> pkg_info indicates I have "flashplugin-mozilla-0.4.10_2 A GPL standalone 
> Flash (TM) plugin for Mozilla web browser"
>   installed.  I have not checked to see if the plugin needs to be 
> upgraded yet because I'm looking for a misconfigure for the plugins.

I would remove the flashplugin-mozilla-0.4.10_2 package, and install
www/flashpluginwrapper instead.

Joe

> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 16:20, Tom Parquette wrote:
> 
> > Try upgrading to Mozilla 1.4.  There were numerous problems with 1.3.x. 
> > I am unable to reproduce this on 1.4 compiled with Xft and the GTK+-2
> > GUI.
> > 
> > Joe
> 
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