bug#43610: closed (IceCat segfault)

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regarding IceCat segfault
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> IceCat segfault
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> Fri, 25 Sep 2020 15:26:09 +0200
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> Haven't had time to look deeper into it yet. It worked in my profile
> from sept 11, it broke after pulling and upgrading yesterday.
> Idk what my commit is because I'm using a private branch.
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> Re: bug#43610: IceCat segfault
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> Mon, 11 Jul 2022 14:38:02 -0400
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (gnu/linux)
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> Hi,
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> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
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> > Hi Alex,
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> > Alex ter Weele <alex.ter.weele@gmail.com> skribis:
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> >> All I had to delete was the line
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> >> user_pref("network.captive-portal-service.enabled", true);
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> >> from ~/.mozilla/icecat/$my-profile/prefs.js.
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> > Good to know.  Who could have guessed?
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> >> Methodology: I put my whole profile into a git repo, then deleted it file
> >> by file with
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> >> for i in * ; do
> >> rm $i
> >> git commit -am "Remove $i"
> >> done
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> >> then I used git bisect to find which file(s) had to be deleted before
> >> icecat wouldn't segfault.
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> It seems the problem had to do with problematic migration of an IceCat
> profile between versions?
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> If so, I'd think that'd be an upstream rather than a Guix issue.
> Closing, because the issue is very old, and the lack of activity on its
> tracker suggests it hasn't reoccurred since.
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> Feel free to reopen otherwise.
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> Thanks,
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> Maxim
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