Re: Updated firefox package available for sparc64

Hi Gregor,

On Fri, 2026-01-09 at 02:15 +0100, Gregor Riepl wrote:
> Thanks a lot for that!
>=20
> > I have successfully built and uploaded the latest version of the firefo=
x package
> > for sparc64. The package has been verified to work fine (see screenshot=
 in [1]).
>=20
> Unfortunately it segfaults very quickly on my Ultra 10:
> nect.cpp:107

That's unfortunate. However, I could confirm it works fine on a SPARC T4:

https://github.com/sparclinux/issues/issues/59#issuecomment-3705595613

>=20
> It was quite hard to get even a stack trace, because of excessive memory =
usage
> (gdb eats 4.5GB just for tracing a core dump, and the box only has 512MB)=
.
>=20
> I suspected that the crash was memory-related at first, but it looks like=
 it might
> be an issue with the JS runtime? If it is in fact memory-related, I wonde=
r why this
> would happen. There's plenty of swap space available.

Firefox is large and takes a lot of memory. It could indeed just be that yo=
u run into
these problems due to insufficient memory but it's hard to say.

Have you ever tested the memory on this machine?

Adrian

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