Bug#642750: epiphany-browser: *HIGHLY* unstable on ia64 (IA-64/IPF/Itanium) platform

[Émeric Maschino]

Hi and happy new year,

I've tested latest patchset from Stephan.

Epiphany runs as great as with the v2 patchset.
I'm however still getting the curious Google homepage crash I was
talking about previously.
Uninstalling gnash didn't help.
But overall, Stephan work is a _huge_ improvement w.r.t. what we had before!
Kudos to him.

Best regards,

    Emeric


2013/1/2 Stephan Schreiber <info at fs-driver.org>:
> I filed bug#697172 for yet another bug of webkit.
> Furthermore, bug#697173 for a bug in the epiphany-browser package.
> Furthermore, bug#697174 in order to enable seed on ia64.
>
> I also realized that gnash seems to crash epiphany sometimes. I browsed
> through the Debian bug reports and found ones which blame gnash to make the
> webkit based browsers unstable - epiphany-bowser on Gnome and Konqueror on
> KDE:
> bug#594822, 655839, 549309.
> I removed both gnash and gnash-common from my computer and realized a real
> improvement of epiphany's behaviour.
>
> But I still experienced some trouble, for example, a reproducable hang-up
> and a crash a few seconds subsequently: Enter www.kununu.de; enter a company
> name in the top right search edit box; enter; click on a company's name -
> hang-up, crash.
> I tried Fedora 17 i386 on another box (epiphany-browser 3.4.3; webkit 1.8.3;
> gnash isn't installed): same behaviour. It isn't an ia64 specific bug.
>
> I think epiphany-browser/webkit with all patches runs on ia64 as stable as
> on x86; this is the best we can do at the moment.
>
>
> A summary of the patches we had so far:
>
> webkit, this bug report
> 01-ia64-wide-ptr.patch
> 02-ia64-use-system-malloc.patch
>
> webkit, bug#694971
> large-mem-page.patch
>
> webkit, bug#697172
> thread-safe-icon-db.patch
>
> seed, bug#582774
> seed no longer FTBFS without any change
>
> epiphany-browser, bug#697173
> history-thread-startup-race.patch
>
> epiphany-browser, bug#697174
> enabling seed in debian/rules
>
>
> If you want to test it, you can download the built debs:
>
> http://www.fs-driver.org/debian-ia64/webkitgtk-debs-v3.tar
> http://www.fs-driver.org/debian-ia64/seed-debs.tar
> http://www.fs-driver.org/debian-ia64/epiphany-debs.tar
>
> Remember to remove both gnash and gnash-common before you test it.
>
> Stephan
>
>