On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 06:50:09PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: > This is a lot more interesting. This points to a crash > within libc's db code. Somehow, it's trying to compute > a hash for some element with length -10618, which is > getting converted to an unsigned 4294956678, which is > causing the crash. > > Does Firefox have knobs to use a newer Berkeley DB? Not that I am aware of. Maybe I should ask ports_at_... > I can't > recall whether newer Berkeley DB versions are thread-safe but > I'm pretty sure the old version in our libc isn't. If Firefox > is assuming the BDB code is thread-safe that could certainly > cause corruption of the BDB data with all sorts of unpleasant > consequences. That's just a random guess, though. Maybe someone > else on this mailing list knows better. I think you're on to something. Also, I have found a reliable way to cause the crash. It happens when I go to https://wellpointnextrx.com/ and try to accept the cert for the session. -- Jos Backus jos at catnook.comReceived on Thu Oct 09 2008 - 14:38:37 UTC
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