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peter4
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 Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 4:27 pm Post subject: what about Firefox's breakpad on Gentoo? |
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Why isn't it there? I don't think it's a general Linux problem, as I heard that it's present in Ubuntu (correct me if I'm wrong). On my system Firefox crashes very often when Compiz is enabled and I'd like to report the problem. I thing it would be easier with breakpad. However when i commented out the lines disabling breakpad from xulrunner and Firefox ebuilds, it segfaults just after firefox crashes. Also it doesn't run with binary firefox downloaded manually from Mozilla.
Does anybody know something about this?
Oh, and for those who don't know: Breakpad is the Mozilla's bug reporting tool. |
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callx
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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I think I read somewhere that breakpad is currently broken (I don't remember if it's just Gentoo or all linuxes in general)  |
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peter4
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, I just found this:
| Quote: | It sends the raw contents of the stack for each thread, as well as the list of
loaded modules for the process, including a MD5 sum of each module. On the
server side, this MD5 is used to load the appropriate debug symbols for the
modules, and the stack is walked there to produce a backtrace.
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So looks like breakpad is no use with custom builds. |
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