From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 19 00:33:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2807916A4DA for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:33:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pbowen@fastmail.fm) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AD1243D46 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:33:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pbowen@fastmail.fm) Received: from frontend3.internal (frontend3.internal [10.202.2.152]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E8EFD90E46 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:33:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by frontend3.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:33:54 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: ++D6PcQE1oheLvSPMD1OxJlzdmj0/D/OlTALGwn8srmI 1153269231 Received: from [192.168.1.238] (unknown [205.246.14.237]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70F138CC for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:33:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44BD7DD5.9030406@fastmail.fm> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:33:25 -0500 From: Patrick Bowen User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060615) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <44BADEC8.5030807@fastmail.fm> <86ejwkrh83.fsf@student.uni-magdeburg.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Firefox on -current dumps core. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:33:54 -0000 Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Wolfram Fenske wrote: > >> Patrick Bowen 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