From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 19 21:59:03 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 1628816A4CE for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 21:59:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from straycat.dhs.org (h0050da134090.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.91.148.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7D8E143D39 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 21:59:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org) Received: (qmail 21086 invoked from network); 19 Jun 2004 21:58:25 -0000 Received: from compass.straycat.dhs.org (HELO ?192.168.1.32?) (192.168.1.32) by alexandria.straycat.dhs.org with SMTP; 19 Jun 2004 21:58:25 -0000 From: Tom McLaughlin To: Sean McNeil In-Reply-To: <1087680241.10847.4.camel@server.mcneil.com> References: <1087545571.70951.4.camel@server.mcneil.com> <1087679838.1042.35.camel@localhost.muc.eu.mscsoftware.com> <1087680241.10847.4.camel@server.mcneil.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1087682305.834.114.camel@compass.straycat.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 17:58:25 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org cc: "Georg-W. Koltermann" 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: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 21:59:03 -0000 On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 17:24, Sean McNeil wrote: > On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 14:17, Georg-W. Koltermann wrote: > > Am Fr, den 18.06.2004 schrieb Sean McNeil um 9:59: > > > 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 > > > > Nobody reads release notes nowadays, I guess. From the page at > > http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/ in section " > > Known Issues": > > > > * If Firefox 0.9 is placed in a location with limited access > > privileges, it should be run by a user with access to that > > location first, so that all initial startup files are generated. > > There may be issues still where if a restricted-access user is > > the first to run the app, these files may not be generated > > properly and Firefox may enter an infinite restart loop. This > > will be fixed in a future release. > > > > Running firefox as root once did the trick for me. > > Nobody reads the full thread before they comment these days, I guess :) > > I did exactly that and it did NOT work for me. I had to do some extra > things with deleting some directories before it worked. Now, it only > "sort of" works as I have a good deal of additional problems. > > The first issue I had was that cc is broken for amd64 and thunks. I > found a fix for that. Secondly, I got the same core dump whether I ran > with root or not. Third, once I got root to work my user account did > NOT work and I got this message whereas I didn't get it running as root. > > Cheers, > Sean > Yes, I'm having this same issue too. The need to run firefox first as root should not be necessary with 0.9_2. This problem started occurring for me with 0.9_1 while 0.9 was fine. I cvsuped and started the build of the latest version last night after completely deinstalling firefox and removing ~/.mozilla/firefox. This morning I ran it first as root for good measure and saw some errors in the terminal but it did start. It cored though when I ran it as a my regular user. I've just cvsuped again and I see two new patch files for firefox. I'm going to start building the latest port shortly to see what happens. Tom