From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 24 22:09:11 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DA92D48B for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 22:09:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound-queue-2.mail.thdo.gradwell.net (outbound-queue-2.mail.thdo.gradwell.net [212.11.70.35]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E423A8D for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 22:09:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound-edge-2.mail.thdo.gradwell.net (bonnie.gradwell.net [212.11.70.2]) by outbound-queue-2.mail.thdo.gradwell.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9268523406 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 22:09:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cpc7-jarr12-2-0-cust882.16-2.cable.virginm.net (HELO amd.asgard.uk) (92.238.71.115) (smtp-auth username fbsd%pop3.dgmm.net, mechanism plain) by outbound-edge-2.mail.thdo.gradwell.net (qpsmtpd/0.83) with ESMTPA; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 22:09:09 +0000 From: Dave To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Caveat: Firefox and Thunderbird not working with latest GTK Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 22:08:53 +0000 Message-ID: <2771370.Bf6oPDPexk@amd.asgard.uk> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.2 (FreeBSD/9.3-RELEASE-p5; KDE/4.14.2; amd64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <54738085.2030509@rainbow-runner.nl> References: <54730B38.9050909@netfence.it> <4174488.EsCUSbJpcX@amd.asgard.uk> <54738085.2030509@rainbow-runner.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Gradwell-MongoId: 5473ac85.a506-8dd-2 X-Gradwell-Auth-Method: mailbox X-Gradwell-Auth-Credentials: fbsd@pop3.dgmm.net X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 22:09:11 -0000 On Monday 24 November 2014 20:01:25 Koop Mast wrote: > On 24-11-2014 18:08, Dave wrote: > > On Monday 24 November 2014 11:40:56 Andrea Venturoli wrote: > >> Hello. > >> > >> The box is a 9.3/i386 and I'm using portupgrade to compile ports from > >> source; the desktop environment is XFCE. > >> > >> Yesterday evening I updated some unrelated ports and some dependencies > >> of Firefox and Thunderbird were updated: after that, those two > >> applications were not running properly. > >> The main window would come up, but never be updated anymore; if I typed > >> on the keyboard I could perceive something happening under the hood > >> (other windows popping up, network packets flowing), but I would see > >> nothing on the screen (the main window would stay exactly as it was when > >> it opened). > >> > >> I removed all extensions, but to no avail. > >> I tried "portupgrade -Rf thunderbird firefox" and let the box compile > >> all night, but again, no luck. > >> So I downgraded all the ports that had been updated and FF and TB > >> started working again. > >> Then I began updating them one at a time and found the culprit to be > >> gtk: when upgrading from 2.24.22_4 to 2.24.25 I get the behaviour > >> described above; after downgrading, both programs work again. > >> > >> I did the same test on another box (10.0/amd64) and got the same results. > > > > I found the same here with regard to news/pan. > > > > FreeBSD 9.3, AMD64 here. > > > > The stalled GUI update symptom occurs after using the search feature. The > > mouse pointer changes from text selection on moving across the search text > > box to the paintbrush "clear" button and clicking that button brings the > > GUI updates back to life. > > > > I'll try the gtk downgrade and report back. > > Or update the gtk20 port to 2.24.25_1. This should fix the UI update > issues in firefox. Yes, I saw that update and tried it. It fixed the Pan symptoms too. > -Koop > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"