Hello,
I am running Fedora Core 26 on a PowerMac G5 (late 2005). uname -a
gives:
Linux howitt 4.15.17-200.fc26.ppc64 #1 SMP Thu Apr 12 18:02:37 UTC 2018 ppc64 ppc64 ppc64
GNU/Linux
The last version of firefox that works on my machine is
firefox-54.0-2.fc26.ppc6. All of the later versions crash. That is,
versions 57, 58 and 59. The following extract is from my log when I
attempt to run firefox-59.0.2-1.fc26
[system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.UPower'
unit='upower.service' requested by ':1.36' (uid=1000 pid=4075
comm="/usr/lib64/firefox/firefox "
label="unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023")
Apr 21 13:43:54 howitt audit[28307]: ANOM_ABEND auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=1
subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 pid=28307
comm="firefox" exe="/usr/lib64/firefox/firefox" sig=11 res=1
Apr 21 13:43:54 howitt audit[28321]: ANOM_ABEND auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=1
subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 pid=28321
comm="firefox" exe="/usr/lib64/firefox/firefox" sig=11 res=1
Apr 21 13:43:54 howitt kernel: firefox[28307]: unhandled signal 11 at 0000000000000000 nip
000000011d6b0938 lr 000000011d6b1910 code 1
Apr 21 13:43:55 howitt kernel: firefox[28321]: unhandled signal 11 at 0000000000000000 nip
000000011d6b0938 lr 000000011d6b1910 code 1
Apr 21 13:43:56 howitt systemd-coredump[28324]: Process 28307 (firefox) of user 1000
dumped core.#012#012Stack trace of thread 28307:#012#0 0x000000011d6b0938
_ZN12RedBlackTreeI17arena_chunk_map_t19ArenaAvailTreeTraitE6RemoveEPNS2_8TreeNodeE
(firefox)#012#1 0x000000011d6b1910 _ZN7arena_t8SplitRunEP11arena_run_tmbb (firefox)#012#2
0x00007ffff091b820 n/a (n/a)#012#3 0x000000011d6b2000 _ZN7arena_t8AllocRunEmbb
(firefox)#012#4 0x000000011d6b4130 _ZN7arena_t16GetNonFullBinRunEP11arena_bin_t
(firefox)#012#5 0x000000011d6b600c calloc (firefox)#012#6 0x00007fff96a58d9c
XOpenDisplay (libX11.so.6)#012#7 0x00007ffff091be70 n/a (n/a)
Apr 21 13:43:56 howitt systemd-coredump[28325]: Process 28321 (firefox) of user 1000
dumped core.#012#012Stack trace of thread 28321:#012#0 0x000000011d6b0938
_ZN12RedBlackTreeI17arena_chunk_map_t19ArenaAvailTreeTraitE6RemoveEPNS2_8TreeNodeE
(firefox)#012#1 0x000000011d6b1910 _ZN7arena_t8SplitRunEP11arena_run_tmbb (firefox)#012#2
0x00007fff97942000 n/a (n/a)#012#3 0x000000011d6b2000 _ZN7arena_t8AllocRunEmbb
(firefox)#012#4 0x000000011d6b4130 _ZN7arena_t16GetNonFullBinRunEP11arena_bin_t
(firefox)#012#5 0x000000011d6b600c calloc (firefox)#012#6 0x00007fff95924b38
xcb_connect_to_fd (libxcb.so.1)#012#7 0x00007fff97a00000 n/a (n/a)
I am using fvwm (fvwm-2.6.7-4.fc26.ppc64) as window manager. Is there
any known problem that might explain this? Has anyone else
encountered a similar problem? So far, as a workaround, I use `dnf
downgrade firefox'.
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Stephen Harker sjharker(a)netspace.net.au
http://sjharker.customer.netspace.net.au/