yossarian Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 Hi all, After doing a fresh installation of Mandriva 2010.0 (Gnome), I tried loading some sites in Epiphany. Each time the page almost finishes to load, the browser crashes (closed without a warning). Two examples: 1. go to www.gmail.com and try to login. When the gmail's blue bar is almost full, the browser crashes. 2. go to yahoo.com. The browser crashes before Yahoo's main page is loaded. If I run epiphany from terminal all I get is the following message: Illegal instruction Am I the only one experiencing this problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 That looks like the webkit bug. Please see: bug #55533 It's also in the errata: Epiphany (or other webkit based applications) crash a lot on non-SSE2 processors Are you using a non-SSE2 processor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yossarian Posted November 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 Looking at the list of CPUs supporting SSE2 on wikipedia, I see that mu CPU (Pentium 3) is not there. So this is it, I'll need to wait for an updated version of Webkit. Thanks for the help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 Just for the record and if anyone else is having this problem, you can also check your cpu with grep sse2 /proc/cpuinfo to see if the SSE2 flag is listed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Random12 Posted November 29, 2009 Report Share Posted November 29, 2009 Just for the record, why is this marked [solved]? Simply having the problem identified, doesn't mean it is solved. I would think solved would mean there's a patch, update, or workaround, or at least an indication that there's a plan and schedule for solving the problem. It does seem that the webkit folks have created a patch upstream. Does anyhow know if Mandriva plans to get it into updates? I only installed the Gnome desktop. I'm running on a circa 2003 Athlon XP machine. Epiphany crashes and Firefox 3.5.5 continually gives me unresponsive script messages when I try to use gmail. I had to install Opera which is only free as in beer in order to use gmail. I wouldn't think the intersection of Mandriva, Gnome, Athlon XP, and Gmail users is that small that this problem isn't serious. Regards, A. Just for the record and if anyone else is having this problem, you can also check your cpu with grep sse2 /proc/cpuinfo to see if the SSE2 flag is listed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yossarian Posted November 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2009 Just for the record, why is this marked [solved]? Simply having the problem identified, doesn't mean it is solved. First, welcome aboard. :) I accept your remark. Even though, since it was explicitly mentioned in the Errata, it was my responsibility to read about it before the installation, and surely before I wrote about it here. Since the issue is known to Mandriva and to the community, there is no point in leaving this topic open. The members sometimes review all the topics and search for the unsolved ones, and I didn't see it necessary to waste their time if the issue is known. Regarding your other questions - unfortunately, I don't know if there is a patch or when it is expected to hit Mandriva's mirrors. I decided to roll back to 2009.0, which is much more stable for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted November 29, 2009 Report Share Posted November 29, 2009 In case that there is a known bug but no workaround yet, it is better to mark the topic as "unsolved" as there is no known solution right now. If we mark it as "solved", everybody would expect to find a solution to this bug in here - and would probably be frustrated when they realise that there is no solution inside the thread. I changed the topic to "unsolved" in order to avoid confusion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Random12 Posted December 8, 2009 Report Share Posted December 8, 2009 Looks like a solution is in the works. If one downloads and installs updated webkit and libwebkit rpm's (there are several, and one has an out of sequence version number) from the testing repositories, the problem goes away. Presumably these will make it into updates after someone makes sure they don't introduce new problems. See https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=55533 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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