[Nix-dev] Firefox 13 issue

[Nicolas Pierron]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:56 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell
<viric at viric.name> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:31:36AM +0200, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:22:34PM +0200, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
>> > On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 08:54:23PM +0400, Kirill Elagin wrote:
>> > > Ooops, I should have looked through the commit log… Eelco mentioned this in
>> > > commit#f677edf57f71cf0c8c9e0906d26b4304e4213ef8<https://github.com/nbp/nixpkgs-2/commit/f677edf57f71cf0c8c9e0906d26b4304e4213ef8>
>> > > .
>> > > Still would be nice is someone using Firefox managed to find some spare
>> > > time to resolve this…
>> >
>> > I thought it could be a problem in our old binutils, and I tried disabling ICF
>> > (--disable-icf at xulrunner), but the result is the same. So, I wonder, maybe
>> > it's a problem in glibc ld.so? Maybe a problem of patchelf (it is patchelfed,
>> > xulrunner-stub not).
>>
>> patchelfing 'xulrunner-stub' did not make it fail. But although I've not tested
>> it, I think it may be patchelf breaking the binaries.
>>
>> There patchelf patches two executables: xpcshell and plugin-container. xpcshell
>> was broken already in firefox12 (it suicides before the ld.so much), and also is
>> in 13. I don't know what is xpcshell for, and what can be used for, if it
>> suicides that way. Anyone knows about xpcshell?
>
> I confirm it's patchelf. An unpatched plugin-container, with a LD_LIBRARY_PATH,
> works fine. But xpcshell gets killed with and without patchelf.

Have you tried to configure firefox with --disable-elf-hack and
potentially --disable-elf-dynstr-gc?

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Nicolas Pierron
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