505497 - documentation of known issues for firefox 3.5 linux releases fails to mention known critical bug that thes

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[jhw]

User-Agent:       Lynx/2.8.7rel.1 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8k
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.1

documentation of known issues for firefox 3.5 linux releases fails to mention known critical bug that these versions hang on startup waiting on a futex when libsafe ( and possibly other libraries ) are preloaded.
note that this is a serious documentation flaw, since it took me a lot of effort to figure out why the new version hung on startup, and then to search bug reports to get a hint of what might be causing the problem, and then to test by removing libsafe from my preloads.
note that not only must it be removed from LD_PRELOAD, but also from /etc/ld.so.preload.
a simple statement in the release notes warning users about this would have saved me a bunch of trouble.
as an aside on the actual problem, there appear to have been multiple bugs reporting variations, all of which were marked as duplicates of some other bug, which has lots of comments debating it and how or whether to fix it.
that bug is serious, and appears to be due to a basic design flaw.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.12 or later in safe mode? If not, please close. These links can help you in your testing.
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles
Also, please consider using the most recent Firefox 4 beta build, your bug may be resolved there.

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.13 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.

Comment 3

[jhw]

please read the description.  the problem has not been resolved.  attempts to run firefox 3.6.13 with libsafe cause firefox to hang waiting on a futex;
this bug was against the release notes documentation, which fails to mention this problem, and still fails to mention it.