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From:
Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject:
Re: www/qutebrowser crashes
To:
Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org>
Cc:
ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Thu, 28 May 2026 17:32:27 +0100

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On 2026/05/28 18:14, Marco van Hulten wrote:
> On Wed May 27, 2026 at 1:56 PM CEST, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > On 2026/05/22 12:52, Marco van Hulten wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> On the latest snapshot qutebrowser crashes for me:
> >> 
> >> mvanhult@detekti:~$ qutebrowser --temp-basedir
> >> No such file or directory
> >> No such file or directory
> >> [0522/124018.434194:ERROR:../../../qtwebengine-everywhere-src-6.11.0/src/3rdparty/chromium/base/i18n/icu_util.cc:227] Invalid file descriptor to ICU data received.
> >> Trace/BPT trap             (core dumped) qutebrowser --temp-basedir
> >> mvanhult@detekti:~$ uname -a
> >> OpenBSD detekti.uni-bonn.de 7.9 GENERIC.MP#501 amd64
> >> 
> >> Could someone reproduce or refute this?  At the moment I have no second
> >> desktop machine running snap or current.
> >
> > It failed for me around the time you sent this, but works now after
> > updates. I suspect something was not up to date, most likely after
> > library changes in X.
> 
> Thanks for getting back to this.
> 
> Since about three days or so also I do not have any problems anymore.
> Moreover, some page-loading problems and occasional freezes of
> qutebrowser that became worse over the last few months appear to have
> disappeared as well.  I'm very happy about this!

There was a big Qt6 / QtWebEngine update recently, which may well have
helped.