Bug 188026

Summary:	www/firefox: 11.0-CURRENT r262690 ia64, ports tree at 349321: build failure: errors.fatal('Error while running startup cache precompilation')
Product:	Ports & Packages	Reporter:	Anton Shterenlikht <as>
Component:	Individual Port(s)	Assignee:	freebsd-gecko (Nobody) <gecko>
Status:	Closed Not Enough Information
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	jhibbits
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Anton Shterenlikht 2014-03-28 09:20:00 UTC

The ports hasn't built successfully on ia64
for a number of years. I recently tried to
build it in a poudriere. Here's the full log:

http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/logs/firefox-28.0,1.log

The error:

resource://app/modules/devtools/StyleEditorUtil.jsm
resource://app/modules/devtools/CmdInspect.jsm
resource://app/modules/devtools/StyleEditorPanel.jsm
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "../../../toolkit/mozapps/installer/packager.py", line 375, in <module>
    main()
  File "../../../toolkit/mozapps/installer/packager.py", line 367, in main
    args.source, gre_path, base)
  File "../../../toolkit/mozapps/installer/packager.py", line 148, in precompile_cache
    errors.fatal('Error while running startup cache precompilation')
  File "/wrkdirs/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/mozilla-release/python/mozbuild/mozpack/errors.py", line 101, in fatal
    self._handle(self.FATAL, msg)
  File "/wrkdirs/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/mozilla-release/python/mozbuild/mozpack/errors.py", line 96, in _handle
    raise ErrorMessage(msg)
mozpack.errors.ErrorMessage: Error: Error while running startup cache precompilation
gmake[2]: *** [stage-package] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/wrkdirs/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/mozilla-release/obj-ia64-portbld-freebsd11.0/browser/installer'

Comment 1 Edwin Groothuis freebsd_committer

2014-03-28 09:20:08 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-ports-bugs->gecko

Over to maintainer (via the GNATS Auto Assign Tool)

Comment 2 Justin Hibbits freebsd_committer

2015-07-28 17:41:45 UTC

I see this on powerpc and powerpc64 as well.

Comment 3 Jan Beich freebsd_committer

2015-07-28 18:45:18 UTC

Unfortunately, ia64 is not supported on 11.0-CURRENT anymore and the report is obsolete with firefox 28.0 long being EOL.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ia64/2014-May/004043.html

As for powerpc or anyone else with xpcshell crashing on install without at least backtrace such reports are not useful. Try for example,

  1. Disable OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS option (default, to avoid -fomit-frame-pointer added by autoconf)
  2. Build with CFLAGS += -g -O0 ; STRIP = ""
  3. Don't clean WRKDIR
  4. Run gdb/lldb against the binary under MOZ_OBJDIR/dist/bin with .core file
  5. Get a stacktrace + locals
  6. File a bug noting what crashed and the likely culprit frame that doesn't change in Summary

Note, DEBUG option builds with more than just symbols. It may disable optimization (JIT, assembly, etc.) that cause the crash.