From: Fred <openbsd@crowsons.com>
Subject: Re: firefox crashes on pledge "inet"
To: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:39:45 +0100

On 31-08-2026 15:36, Jan Stary wrote:
> This is firefox-154.0.1 on a current/amd64
> running on a HP EliteBook 820 laptop (dmesg below)
> 
> It occasionaly crashes with
> 
> firefox[3523]: pledge "inet", syscall 105
> Exiting due to channel error.
> Exiting due to channel error.
> Exiting due to channel error.
> Exiting due to channel error.
> Exiting due to channel error.
> Exiting due to channel error.
> Exiting due to channel error.
> Exiting due to channel error.
> Exiting due to channel error.
> Exiting due to channel error.
> Exiting due to channel error.
> Exiting due to channel error.
> Exiting due to channel error.
> Exiting due to channel error.
> Abort trap (core dumped)
> 
> gdb on the core file says
> 
> Core was generated by `firefox'.
> Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
> #0  0x0000079ac320c7fb in ?? ()
> 
> which is SIGABRT.
> 
> Surely the firefox pledge includes "inet"; syscall 105 is
> 
> 	#define SYS_setsockopt  105
> 
> so is it simply missing from the inet pledge?
> 
> Jan

I saw this as well I tracked down to ld.so being the wrong major or 
minor, a sysupgrade -s fixed the issue and Firefox is working again.

Cheers

Fred