OWB 2.14

@nexus

Yes for me, OWB crashed very often until I replaced le libxml by the previous update.

Note That it seems that these two versions are the same except may be the options of the compilation.

But OWb works now.

Test it.

@nexus

Good catch.
I filed a Crashlog report for joerg to investigate, maybe we can nail those damn suckers once and for all

@Raziel

Quote:
I can confirm that. I get the same crash.

Visiting http://tamar.4players.de/phpBB, OWB 2.14 crashed everytime using the latest 2.702 14/11/08 version of libxml2-2.6.so, but if I downgrade to version 2.701 it loads fine.

@Swoop

It would be interesting to see if those crashes people get recently are all within libxml.so, then we could at least say that it's not OWB acting up ... as i said with OS4.1 the number of crashes went down to nearly nothing.

@nexus

Crashes for me also.

4.1 on Sam.

@Swoop

Quote:It doesn't look like the usual crashes when loading shared objects, which I never get on my systems either. But as long as nobody builds a current, static libcairo.a, I wont do it, I can't build a statically linked executable of the current OWB like I did for an old version ( http://strohmayer.org/sfs/download.php/OWB_Doduo_static.lha ) for testing if it's related to using shared objects or not.

If libxml2 2.702 causes more problems I'll include the old 2.701 again in the next OWB update, I don't have the time to maintain the AmigaOS 4.x ports of the libraries OWB uses as well, or even search and fix bugs in them, if I'd do that it would take me 20 years instead of "only" about 5 to create a usable browser from OWB ...

Quote:I doesn't crash with libxml2 2.702 on my A1 with 750FX.

@joerg

Quote:OK, Does anything in the crashlog indicate ony other source of the crash?
Any idea what libxml calls, or uses?

I also have the same cpu
Quote:So I wonder if there are any other differences that could account for this?

@Swoop

Quote:No.

Quote:Nothing external in the xmlCharEncInFunc() function which crashes at line 1864 of encoding.c (if addr2line returns the correct data in this case, often it doesn't for shared objects), except for indirectly realloc() or malloc() maybe.

@All

Confirmed here as well ...

http://tamar.4players.de/phpBB
crashed all three times I accessed the web page.

So I tried libxml2-2.6.so version 2.701 and worked just fine three times in a row.

MicroA1-C with IBM PPC 750GX and 256 MB RAM and AmigaOS 4.1

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