Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 06:14:27 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 11.2, X.org, Xfce, and Firefox issues Message-ID: <20190430061427.03001b37.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <122a4e3d-3d5e-e737-e6ee-078a97c711f0@holgerdanske.com> References: <122a4e3d-3d5e-e737-e6ee-078a97c711f0@holgerdanske.com>
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On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 20:39:14 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > I have installed FreeBSD on a Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop. My goal is to > use it as a desktop/ workstation on my SOHO network: > > root@ragnar-ssd:~ # freebsd-version ; uname -a > 11.2-RELEASE-p9 > FreeBSD ragnar-ssd 11.2-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p9 #0: Tue Feb > 5 15:30:36 UTC 2019 > root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > > > I have also installed: > > root@ragnar-ssd:~ # pkg info | egrep '^(xorg-7|xfce-|firefox-)' > firefox-66.0.2,1 Web browser based on the browser portion > of Mozilla > xfce-4.12_1 The "meta-port" for the Xfce Desktop > Environment > xorg-7.7_3 X.Org complete distribution metaport > > > When I start Firefox via an Xfce panel shortcut, it starts. But when I > try to browse to a URL, it core dumps and the Firefox window spins > attempting to connect to the URL: > > root@ragnar-ssd:~ # tail -n 1 /var/log/messages > Apr 29 19:53:03 ragnar-ssd kernel: pid 899 (firefox), uid > 13250: exited > on signal 11 (core dumped) > > 2019-04-29 19:55:28 dpchrist@ragnar-ssd ~ > $ ll firefox.core > -rw------- 1 dpchrist dpchrist 127205376 2019/04/29 19:53:03 > firefox. > core > > > When I start Firefox via Terminal: > > 2019-04-29 19:46:51 dpchrist@ragnar-ssd ~ > $ firefox > > (firefox:884): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: 19:46:58.095: > remote volume monitor with dbus name org.gtk.vfs.HalVolumeMonitor is not > supported Did you install and are you running HAL and DBus? Does your /etc/rc.conf at least contain: dbus_enable="YES" This is the only thing I have added (for a reason I cannot remember anymore), but I'm using Fvwm2 + wbar on that system. > Any suggestions for fixing Firefox? I'm running firefox-66.0.3_1,1 on a FreeBSD 12.0-p3 system, and due to tradition I have added the following to /etc/sysctl.conf: kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed=1 If I remember correctly, Firefox needs this to work. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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