Re: Firefox 133 test package for ppc64

On 2025-05-12, at 9:58 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 2025-05-12 at 09:55 -0700, Ken Cunningham wrote:
>>>> Using LXDE, this time I see content in the windows. But as soon as
>>>> I click on a menu I get a hard desktop lockup, my remote ssh session
>>>> disconnects, and the windfarm fans go to 100%.
>>>> 
>>>> No messages in the terminal window.
>>>> 
>>>> So then I power cycle.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I like MATE anyway — it’s just a bit slower in use that LXDE I find.
>>>> But better than crashing. 
>>> 
>>> I wouldn't really expect the window manager to have any impact on how
>>> Firefox behaves. Did you try tweaking the settings (GPU acceleration etc)?
>> 
>> 
>> Yes, me neither. But there we are. Also a bad crash using FIrefox with OpenBox.
>> Only MATE is working for me -- for whatever reason.
>> 
>> While in MATE, I opened Firefox 138 and  disabled HW acceleration, and the
>> rebooted into LXDE. Firefox 138 had the same bad crash (lockup, have
>> power cycle to restart) as usual.
> 
> Was there any backtrace after the crash when running from the terminal?
> 
> We need to know where it crashed. If possible, a gdb backtrace would
> be helpful.
> 

I'll see if I can get it to run under gdb.

It's a deep, hard crash -- entire system locked up, no way to reboot, can't log in via SSH, nothing.

And nothing displayed in the terminal window to indicate what happened.

Ken