[Dillo-dev] Segfault with development dillo

[Jeremy Henty]

This URL reliably segfaults Dillo:

http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2014/04/where-will-brandeis-go-to-get-its-respect-and-honor-back/

I suspect this is due to a very recent change as for the past few days
Dillo has been crashing a lot, which until then hadn't happened in
ages. I haven't investigated further.

Dillo (current hg tip), Linux 3.13.9, glibc 2.13, gcc 4.5.2 .

Regards,

Jeremy Henty

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[Sebastian Geerken]

On Mo, Apr 14, 2014, Jeremy Henty wrote:
> This URL reliably segfaults Dillo:
>
> http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2014/04/where-will-brandeis-go-to-get-its-respect-and-honor-back/
>
> I suspect this is due to a very recent change as for the past few days
> Dillo has been crashing a lot, which until then hadn't happened in
> ages. I haven't investigated further.
>
> Dillo (current hg tip), Linux 3.13.9, glibc 2.13, gcc 4.5.2 .

Yes, everything after revision 3613 segfault; you can stick to this if
you want to run the development version. (There are no important
changes yet after this.)

This is part of a couple of changes which I hoped to solve another
problem, but which did not serve this purpose, so I'll probably soon
revert these changes again.

Sebastian

[Jorge Arellano Cid]

Hi Jeremy,

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 07:22:35AM +0100, Jeremy Henty wrote:
>
> This URL reliably segfaults Dillo:
>
> http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2014/04/where-will-brandeis-go-to-get-its-respect-and-honor-back/
>
> I suspect this is due to a very recent change as for the past few days
> Dillo has been crashing a lot, which until then hadn't happened in
> ages. I haven't investigated further.
>
> Dillo (current hg tip), Linux 3.13.9, glibc 2.13, gcc 4.5.2 .

Yes, after the dillo-3.0.4 release, the large work on floating
elements was merged into the repository, leaving a very unstable
and crashy dillo.

Users should stick to dillo-3.0.4 in the meantime.

IMO, we (developers) need to focus as a team on stabilizing
this tree before planning any further enhancements. Only once
this goal is met we can return to our usual workflow.

--
Cheers
Jorge.-

[Jeremy Henty]

I wrote:

> This URL reliably segfaults Dillo:
>
> http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2014/04/where-will-brandeis-go-to-get-its-respect-and-honor-back/

In fact as far as I can tell *any* page from freethoughtblogs.com
crashes Dillo, which suggests that it is site style that is causing it
rather than the content. The page content downloads without any
problem and Dillo starts rendering it and downloading images for a few
seconds, then crashes. This suggests to me that it is still
downloading the CSS and crashes when it tries to style the page. (I
run Dillo inside valgrind so everything happens around 30x slower for
me. I can clearly see Dillo restyling the page once the CSS has
downloaded.)

[Jeremy Henty]

Jorge Arellano Cid wrote:

> IMO, we (developers) need to focus as a team on stabilizing this
> tree before planning any further enhancements. Only once this goal
> is met we can return to our usual workflow.

Completely agree.

It's just like old times! <nostalgia/> :-)

Maybe I can update my wrappers to automatically generate tracebacks
from core files. Hmm...

Regards,

Jeremy Henty