Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 15:31:01 -0600 From: Michael Clark <mikeal-list@infinithost.com> To: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Mozilla Firefox and firebird problems after sat 022604 upgrade of FreeBSD-current Message-ID: <91F02BA3-6AFE-11D8-B43C-000A95ACF7CA@infinithost.com> In-Reply-To: <200402292117.i1TLGw7E092764@gw.catspoiler.org> References: <200402292117.i1TLGw7E092764@gw.catspoiler.org>
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Don, I have reported both of these applications, and in fact everything on my system with no success via the portupgrade command. And originally by doing make deinstall && make reinstall on the ports. Should I be doing something different? On Feb 29, 2004, at 3:16 PM, Don Lewis wrote: > On 29 Feb, Michael Clark wrote: >> Every time I run either firebird or firefox, my whole computer locks >> up >> and i am forced to use the power button to reset it. >> This all worked fine before I cvsup'd and upgraded yesterday, from the >> previous weekends -current code. >> >> I did a portupgrade -Rrupf gettext to try and correct the libintl.so.5 >> error, but it still exist for some applications unless i symlink >> libintl.so.6 to libintl.so.5 >> >> Firebird/Firefox no longer ask for .so.5 even without the sym link. >> >> other applications using the .so.5 lib work fine, including xchat >> >> any help greatly appreciated > > The resolver code in libc was updated on February 25 and it was > recommended that threaded applications that use the resolver be > rebuilt. > Mozilla and firefox were mentioned as examples of things that should be > rebuilt. > > I rebuilt mozilla and firefox after this change and haven't had any > problems. On the other hand, if running older versions of these > applications locks up the system, that is a severely bad thing and > needs > to be investigated to fix the kernel bug that is allowing this to > happen. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Mikeal Clark Infinithost LLC CompTIA A+, MCP www.infinithost.com
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