On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 15:24 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > Hey, folks. > > So lately Firefox has been crashing a ton for me on F16 (and Evolution's > been disappearing silently too - bet it's the same cause). Today I fired > it up from a console and found out what the error was: > > "__libc_res_nquery: Assertion `hp != hp2' failed." > > then I tried to use Epiphany for a bit and found it was crashing on > exactly the same error! > > A bit of detective work led to: > > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24615 > > apparently Arch has been seeing the same thing. They've addressed it by > reverting the following upstream glibc commit: > > http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=4769ae77fc6c8dacea6476addb015c8797848cdd > > I've just built an F16 glibc with that reversion to test locally, > haven't installed it yet. Just wanted to flag this up and see if anyone > else has seen the same thing, and whether we should just revert the > change in Fedora, fix it, deal with upstream or what... > > I suspect it may be a _bit_ more complicated than 'any failed DNS query > invariably causes app to crash in all situations', as I'd have expected > a bit more of an outcry. But I'm certainly getting a ton of crashes > here. It may depend a little on exact DNS server configuration or > something. So Shawn Starr mentioned on IRC that his Firefox was crashing a ton in F16, and sure enough, when I asked him to run from a console, turned out he was hitting this. He found an upstream report with a patch: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13013 it'd be great if we could get that into Fedora glibc. Thanks! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
