firefox-esr crashed in debian buster

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firefox-esr crashed in debian buster

utzcoz opened this issue 6 years ago · comments

Hi @pdsouza , I have tried upgrade debian to buster, but I found the firefox-esr crashed in it, but firefox works fine in debian buster. Maybe when someone wants to upgrade to buster, he/she should be attention to this problem.

Thanks.

Preetam D'Souza · Answer 1 · Thu Oct 04 2018 00:11:49 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi @utzcoz, thanks for the report. Yes there is an issue with the latest firedox-esr on ARM devices. I believe Firefox 60+ has this issue, so you must downgrade to the previous version (52.9.0) until it is fixed upstream in Debian.

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utzcoz · Answer 2 · Thu Oct 04 2018 00:27:17 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@pdsouza , thanks for your provided information, I will focus on it and test more , and give feedback after testing.

Preetam D'Souza · Answer 3 · Fri Oct 05 2018 23:03:44 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Here is a reference to the upstream bug for anyone affected: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=909498

Preetam D'Souza · Answer 4 · Sat Oct 06 2018 03:36:59 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I explicitly marked the firefox-esr package as held back to prevent it from accidentally being upgraded when a user runs apt-get upgrade: 04f5461

utzcoz · Answer 5 · Sun Oct 07 2018 01:04:51 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@pdsouza Thanks. I will use your patch to hold on firefox-esr to specific version and close the issue.

Preetam D'Souza · Answer 6 · Wed Dec 12 2018 00:30:34 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Looks like #909498 is still open. Unfortunately, the current builds are breaking because Debian stretch archives no longer have firefox-esr_52.9.0 that was being used as a workaround.

I tested the latest firefox-esr_60.3.0 on arm64 and it works fine - but armhf still crashes. So for armhf we'll need to work around it as suggested in this thread by installing the package from jessie instead.

I'm going to keep this open until this is fixed.

Preetam D'Souza · Answer 7 · Wed Dec 12 2018 22:34:39 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Deployed a workaround for armhf: e8cb47a