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Date:      Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:33:25 -0500
From:      Patrick Bowen <pbowen@fastmail.fm>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Firefox on -current dumps core.
Message-ID:  <44BD7DD5.9030406@fastmail.fm>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0607170554040.29133@sea.ntplx.net>
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Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Wolfram Fenske wrote:
>
>> Patrick Bowen <pbowen@fastmail.fm> writes:
>>
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> I recently upgraded a Gateway MX6121 from 6.1 stable to -current,
>>> following the canonical procedure in /usr/src/UPDATING, and now
>>> whenever I try to start firefox, it dumps a core file (segmentation
>>> fault). Firefox was compiled from source under 6.1.
>>>
>>> Should I have upgraded from 6.1 to -current, and /then/ start adding
>>> ports, or does that matter?
>>
>> When I upgraded about two weeks ago, a lot of programs dumped core.
>> Rebuilding fixed that.  I didn't have these problems when I upgraded
>> before, not even from 6.0 to 7.0-current, just this last time.
>
> Because there are libraries whose version have not been bumped
> yet in 7.0.
>

Understood.

Here's my situation. I drive a truck, and the truck stops have wireless, 
but no wired, and there's a secure login. So I have to have a working 
browser to get on the web to do updates/upgrades.

What would be the best way to avoid the "library" problem that caused 
the cores? Upgrade all the packages from source before I cvsup to 
-current, or...?

Thanks for any pointers.

Patrick



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