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Date:      Tue, 1 Feb 2005 12:27:56 -0500
From:      Steven Friedrich <FreeBSD@insightbb.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Mac Mason <mac@cs.hmc.edu>
Subject:   Re: Mozilla and Firefox fail to start
Message-ID:  <200502011227.56991.FreeBSD@insightbb.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050201040730.GA15066@orthanc.st.hmc.edu>
References:  <20050201040730.GA15066@orthanc.st.hmc.edu>

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On Monday 31 January 2005 11:07 pm, Mac Mason wrote:
> "So", I say to myself, "wouldn't it be nice to have firefox?"
>
> So, cd to the right place, make install clean...
>
> and then try to run it...and it thinks for two or three seconds,
> and hands me my prompt back.
>
> No core file, no browser, no error message.
>
> "Hm..." I think to myself. "...maybe mozilla will work."
>
> So, I repeat the same process.
>
> And mozilla won't start either; it does the very same thing.
>
> FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE, with the most-recent errata.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
>     --Mac
open an xterm and invoke firefox or mozilla.  You'll probably get some errors 
regarding shared libraries.

See /usr/local/share/examples/linuxpluginwrapper/libmap.conf-FreeBSD5-stable
-- 
i386 FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE



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