Firefox crash

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 08:43 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:23:25 +0200
> Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:49:37 +0000 (UTC), J (JB) wrote:
> > 
> > > Kalev Lember <kalevlember <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > > 
> > > > ... 
> > > > Just a wild guess -- what version of glibc do you have? For a
> > > > short while updates-testing had glibc-2.14.90-6 that made lots of
> > > > apps crash. yum downgrade 'glibc*' should fix it if that's the
> > > > case.
> > > > 
> > > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/glibc-2.14.90-6
> > > 
> > > I downgraded to: 
> > > glibc.i686                  2.14.90-4                  @fedora
> > > and just got a crash again (dump submitted via Firefox built-in
> > > reporter).
> > 
> > Yeah, the -4 release is faulty: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/730856
> > Comment 3 in that ticket mentions a scratch-build that includes the
> > upstream patch, but the build is called 2.14.90-6 which is the same
> > version-release as the broken test update mentioned further above.
> > 
> > Rule of thumb: If scratch-builds contain something not added in pkg
> > git, modify %{release} appropriately and add a string like .test1
> > or .1.test
> 
> Sorry about that (I made the scratch build). I was sure hoping it would
> have been fixed and pushed out in a real update long before now. ;( 

Your scratch build has also now expired. I just built myself a 4.1 with
the patch included...it's pretty easy to do.
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