From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sun Sep 27 16:38:21 2020 Received: (at 43610) by debbugs.gnu.org; 27 Sep 2020 20:38:21 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50520 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kMdR6-0003he-ON for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 16:38:20 -0400 Received: from world.peace.net ([64.112.178.59]:57684) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kMdR5-0003hQ-3r for 43610@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 16:38:19 -0400 Received: from mhw by world.peace.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kMdQy-0000sT-UG; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 16:38:13 -0400 From: Mark H Weaver To: raingloom Subject: Re: bug#43610: IceCat segfault In-Reply-To: <20200927074937.3b23c327@riseup.net> References: <20200925152609.104d0e10@riseup.net> <87r1qp96py.fsf@netris.org> <20200926043425.7724956d@riseup.net> <87blhs8lb7.fsf@netris.org> <20200927074937.3b23c327@riseup.net> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 16:36:52 -0400 Message-ID: <87v9fz6jnk.fsf@netris.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 43610 Cc: 43610@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) Hi, raingloom writes: > On Sat, 26 Sep 2020 14:05:53 -0400 > Mark H Weaver wrote: > >> In the meantime, to start IceCat 78 with your existing profile but >> with addons temporarily disabled, try running: >> >> icecat -safe-mode >> >> That should allow you to recover your existing bookmarks, history, >> cookies, saved passwords, tabs, etc. Then you can try adding back >> your preferred addons incrementally to find out which one is causing >> the problem. > > It still crashes with the -safe-mode flag. Luckily I keep most things > outside modern browsers, so it's not a huge loss. (For obvious reasons > I do not consider them reliable.) If you'd like to try another experiment, it would be interesting to know if you're able to recover most of your old profile by running "icecat -safe-mode -p", selecting your old profile, and clicking on the "Refresh IceCat" button that is presented. That will reset all preferences to the IceCat defaults, but might enable you to recover the things I listed above. >> > Tbh this would be a good time to have a debug output for IceCat on >> > hand. >> >> While I acknowledge that it might occasionally be useful in edge cases >> like this, it would also dramatically increase the memory requirements >> at build time. [...] > > Huh, I was not aware that it increased build time memory requirements. > I assumed it just gets sent to the void in the 'strip phase, just like > it is in other packages. We currently pass "--disable-debug" and "--disable-debug-symbols" to IceCat's configure script, which causes it to pass compiler flags that disable generation of debug symbols during the build. > As a fellow 4 gigger/thinkpadder I > appreciate anything that lets me build things locally without 16+ gigs > of swap. (you might think that's an exaggeration, but then you haven't > tried to build Idris 2 with Idris 1.) I've actually tried (and failed) to build Idris 1 locally, so I can sympathize :-/ Mark