From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 18 16:33:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFA8C16A4CE for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:33:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.mcneil.com (rrcs-west-24-199-45-54.biz.rr.com [24.199.45.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBA8643D45 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:33:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sean@mcneil.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.mcneil.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mcneil.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E4B8FD04F; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 09:32:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.mcneil.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server.mcneil.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 31853-06; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 09:32:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [24.199.45.54] (mcneil.com [24.199.45.54]) by mail.mcneil.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AADDDFD04C; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 09:32:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Sean McNeil To: Joe Marcus Clarke In-Reply-To: <1087575670.878.7.camel@gyros> References: <1087545571.70951.4.camel@server.mcneil.com> <1087575670.878.7.camel@gyros> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1087576366.3530.2.camel@server.mcneil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 09:32:46 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mcneil.com cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firefox - *** loading the extensions datasource X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:33:20 -0000 On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 09:21, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 03:59, Sean McNeil wrote: > > OK, > > > > So I have firefox working as root and it doesn't print anything when I > > run it. > > > > As my regular user, it print the > > > > *** loading the extensions datasource > > > > and then core dumps. I think I have some old cruft somewhere, but I > > can't find it. I deleted everything in /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins > > and I tried it from a new account that didn't have any gnome usage > > before I tried to run firefox. I get the same thing: message then core > > dump. > > > > Where could these extensions be and how can I purge them. Also, why > > would root not try to load them? > > The extensions are kept in the main Firefox directory. Try removing > /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/lib/firefox-0.9/chrome/chrome.rdf and > /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/lib/firefox-0.9/extensions, then run it as root, > then try running it as a normal user again. > > Joe OK, that did it somehow. rm -rf /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/lib/firefox-0.9/chrome/chrome.rdf /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/lib/firefox-0.9/extensions firefox (how to run 3 times before it worked again. 1st it core dumped, 2nd it hung) then as normal user, I had to tell it to import instead of ignore old settings. then it core dumped again in a different place saying I didn't have access to some files. Finally, it works. This has been a very interesting issue.