Package: icedove Version: 10.0.6-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
First of all, many thanks for applying the fix to build icedove on Alpha so quickly! It is much appreciated. I have now been running icedove version 10.0.6-2 on my Alpha to give it a bit of a work out and have an issue to report. Once only while using icedove it completely froze up, continuously churned up 100% CPU, and would not respond to mouse or keyboard input. Icedove never recovered. At the time I did not have icedove-dbg installed, nevertheless I did connect gdb to the frozen icedove process and got enough info from a backtrace to deduce what I believe to be the problem. The backtrack ended in the libc routine madvise() which was called from libmozjs. This looks suspiciously like bug #660960 reported against iceweasel also reported upstream for Mozilla Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746112 It affects any platform that has pagesize larger than 4kB (on Alpha pagesize is 8kB). There is a patch for a work around attached to the Mozilla bug report (comment 7) that fixes the problem for ppc64. Any chance that the patch (modified to include all relevant arches) can be applied to icedove as well? Some reports indicate that MIPS and Sparc may also be affected and could do with the work around, and if that is true, then this bug affects release architectures. Cheers Michael. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unreleased APT policy: (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: alpha Kernel: Linux 3.5.0-dp264-ap+ Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages icedove depends on: ii debianutils 4.3.3 ii fontconfig 2.9.0-7 ii libasound2 1.0.25-4 ii libatk1.0-0 2.4.0-2 ii libc6.1 2.13-35 ii libcairo2 1.12.2-2 ii libdbus-1-3 1.6.2-2 ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.100-1 ii libevent-2.0-5 2.0.19-stable-3 ii libffi5 3.0.10-3 ii libfontconfig1 2.9.0-7 ii libfreetype6 2.4.9-1 ii libgcc1 1:4.7.1-7 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.32.3-1 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.10-2 ii libhunspell-1.3-0 1.3.2-4 ii libjpeg8 8d-1 ii libnspr4 2:4.9.2-1 ii libnspr4-0d 2:4.9.2-1 ii libnss3 2:3.13.5-1 ii libnss3-1d 2:3.13.5-1 ii libpango1.0-0 1.30.0-1 ii libpixman-1-0 0.26.0-3 ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.13-1 ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-1 ii libstdc++6 4.7.1-7 ii libvpx1 1.1.0-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1 ii libxext6 2:1.3.1-2 ii libxrender1 1:0.9.7-1 ii libxt6 1:1.1.3-1 ii psmisc 22.19-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13 Versions of packages icedove recommends: ii myspell-en-us [myspell-dictionary] 1:3.3.0-4 Versions of packages icedove suggests: ii fonts-lyx 2.0.3-3 ii gconf-service 3.2.5-1+build1 ii libgconf-2-4 3.2.5-1+build1 ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.10.1+dfsg-2 ii libnotify4 0.7.5-1 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
