(Fedora 13) Seamonkey 2.0.x constantly crashing

Mason mpeg.blue at free.fr
Thu Oct 7 09:07:11 UTC 2010


David Timms wrote:

> Mason wrote:
>
>> What can I do to make it happen?
>  
> Help the maintainer, by testing the proposed fix yourself with an rpmbuild:
>
> 1. yum downloader --source name-of-package(or parent package)
> 2. extract the rpm
> 3. test your rpmbuild capability works with the existing packages as is
> 4. open up the .spec
> 5. bump the release part
> 6. add a comment describing the action you are taking
> 7. add a patch from elsewhere to the patch file definition
> 8. add the apply patch command to the %prep section
> 9. rpmbuild -ba the-package
> 10. install the built package
> 11. test the application
> 12. when you are sure that the fix works and doesn't introduce other
> issues, make a diff of the spec ot the original
> 13. post the spec patch and the actual patch to the bug. indicate that
> this has successfully built and been running, perhaps with some stats
> eg: a couple of runs of before and after:
> - time applicationname
>
> Much more on package development on the fedoraproject wiki, just ask if
> you are having trouble...

For the record, SUSE quickly fixed the problem, using the
--disable-system-cairo solution.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=622375#c13

The SUSE package maintainer wrote in comment 9:
> Thanks for checking this out. There is/was another issue which would turn up
> when we use the internal cairo.
> This is basically sorted out and I'll drive switching to internal cairo asap
> (either 11.4 or even for security updates given this bugreport).

Is anyone aware of any potential issue when using Mozilla's private
libcairo on Fedora 13?

-- 
Regards.



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