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Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]>
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Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 8 Dec 2014 17:33:51 -0800
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On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Phil Wyett
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> Hi all,
>
> Just to let folks know after I ran into this when testing fastbugs repo
> packages.
>
> The nss-softokn update currently in fastbugs for SL 6
> (nss-softokn-3.14.3-18.el6_6) has a major bug in it that is causing very
> frequent segfaults when starting certain application e.g. firefox.
>
> After testing and research at Red Hats bugzilla, I have found the
> specific bug report against it.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1166921
>
> Waiting for new package to be released. I would advise nobody upgrades
> to this version.
>
> Regards
>
> Phil

Thanks for the heads up. Incidentally, today I started seeing
segfaults upon starting firefox or thunderbird on a RHEL 6.6 machine.
I've downgraded nss-softokn to 3.14.3-17.el6. So far crash has not
happened since.

Akemi

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