[Nix-dev] Firefox 13 issue

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

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 looked at it today, and I find it really weird. First I thought 13.0.1 could
fix it, but no.

Then I run the plugin-container with LD_DEBUG=all, and it simply shows as if it
couldn't find the malloc_message symbol where it is, plugin-container:
processing: ./plugin-container (lazy)
     22187:     symbol=malloc_message;  lookup in file=./plugin-container [0]
     22187:     symbol=malloc_message;  lookup in file=/nix/store/cj7a81wsm1ijwwpkks3725661h3263p5-glibc-2.13/lib/l
ibpthread.so.0 [0]
.....

I also don't know why would the dynamic linker interfere with this plugin-container.
Then I saw that the binary in xulrunner "xulrunner-stub" has that symbol
properly resolved just fine, iiuc, looking at LD_DEBUG=all too. Comparing
xulrunner-stub and plugin-container readelf outputs, I could not see any
relevant difference.

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).

Regards,
Lluís.

> 2012/6/9 Kirill Elagin <kirelagin at gmail.com>
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just installed FF 13 (with no customisation, so nothing was built
> > locally) and its xulrunner seems to be broken.
> > When I open some websites (I guess, the problem is somehow related to
> > Flash), say, Youtube, it just hangs completely
> > and prints this to console:
> > /nix/store/bhj9<hash>-xulrunner-13.0/lib/xulrunner-13.0/plugin-container:
> > symbol lookup error:
> > /nix/store/bhj9<hash>-xulrunner-13.0/lib/xulrunner-13.0/plugin-container:
> > undefined symbol: malloc_message
> >
> > I don't have time right now to investigate this, so it would be great if
> > someone could track down the problem.
> >
> > --
> > Кирилл Елагин
> >

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