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fuscia

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Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 398

elinks crashing

it's never happened before. i suspect yesterday morning's update of spidermonkey as the culprit.

leo2501

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From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Registered: 2007-07-07

Posts: 658

Re: elinks crashing

Same problem here, any temporary replacement to elinks?

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dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: elinks crashing

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10546 ?
Elinks works great here although i dont use the official package

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fuscia

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Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 398

Re: elinks crashing

there doesn't appear to be much response from the elinks mailing list, either.

kstevens

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Registered: 2008-06-01

Posts: 8

Re: elinks crashing

I'm also having the same problem.  I'll see if I can find a solution later on.  If so, I'll post it.

kstevens

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Registered: 2008-06-01

Posts: 8

Re: elinks crashing

Here is the stack trace.  I would post it to the bug report, but it doesn't seem to let me.

#0  0xb7e65b86 in JS_DefineFunction () from /usr/lib/libjs.so
#1  0xb7e66800 in JS_DefineFunctions () from /usr/lib/libjs.so
#2  0xb7e67f1a in JS_InitClass () from /usr/lib/libjs.so
#3  0x080a605d in spidermonkey_get_interpreter ()
#4  0x080a5824 in ecmascript_get_interpreter ()
#5  0x080a58be in ecmascript_reset_state ()
#6  0x08082477 in render_document ()
#7  0x08082c02 in render_document_frames ()
#8  0x080e7d7c in draw_formatted ()
#9  0x080d52b6 in doc_loading_callback ()
#10 0x080b7fe6 in notify_connection_callbacks ()
#11 0x080b8b06 in done_connection ()
#12 0x080b9259 in add_keepalive_connection ()
#13 0x080cac76 in http_end_request ()
#14 0x080cb0a7 in read_http_data ()
#15 0x080badd8 in read_select ()
#16 0x080b510b in select_loop ()
#17 0x080b46da in main ()

kstevens

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Registered: 2008-06-01

Posts: 8

Re: elinks crashing

Here is a temporary fix.  fuscia was correct about the spidermonkey update.  Just need to downgrade that package.

1. Download a version that works:

wget http://shellpenguin.com/arch/pkg/spidermonkey-1.60-1.pkg.tar.gz

2. Switch to root:

su

3. Downgrade to the older version:

pacman -U spidermonkey-1.60-1.pkg.tar.gz

Now you should be good!

Not sure when this will be fixed permanently, but you can follow the instructions here to prevent spidermonkey from being updated again:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Downgrade_packages

Last edited by kstevens (2008-06-01 01:05:56)

fuscia

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Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 398

Re: elinks crashing

ooh! fine work from kstevens. thanks much.

dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: elinks crashing

Did you report this to the elinks developers?

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kstevens

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Registered: 2008-06-01

Posts: 8

Re: elinks crashing

I just submitted a bug report with Elinks:

http://bugzilla.elinks.cz/show_bug.cgi?id=1016