From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 19 03:18:34 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 DDA5016A4E0 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 03:18:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Wolfram.Fenske@Student.Uni-Magdeburg.DE) Received: from mail.uni-magdeburg.de (mail.uni-magdeburg.de [141.44.1.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C0E543D45 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 03:18:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Wolfram.Fenske@Student.Uni-Magdeburg.DE) Received: from sunny.urz.uni-magdeburg.de ([141.44.8.7]) by mail.uni-magdeburg.de with esmtp (EXIM Version 4.62) for id 1G32Zx-0000mF-1x; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 05:18:32 +0200 Received: from hondo. (pD9517042.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.81.112.66]) (authenticated bits=0) by sunny.urz.uni-magdeburg.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k6J3INSX003649 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 05:18:24 +0200 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <44BADEC8.5030807@fastmail.fm> <86ejwkrh83.fsf@student.uni-magdeburg.de> <44BD7DD5.9030406@fastmail.fm> From: Wolfram Fenske Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 05:16:38 +0200 In-Reply-To: <44BD7DD5.9030406@fastmail.fm> (Patrick Bowen's message of "Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:33:25 -0500") Message-ID: <863bcyjnc9.fsf@student.uni-magdeburg.de> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.19 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-Spam-Report: ---- Start SpamAssassin results -2.6 points, 5.0 required; -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 0.0 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list ---- End of SpamAssassin results X-Scan-Signature: 03025af7a8025cd73e963bdd0710f16c Subject: Re: Firefox on -current dumps core. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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 03:18:34 -0000 Patrick Bowen writes: > 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? Probably. It solved the problem for me. >>> 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. >> > > [...] > > 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...? I'd say: 1. update the ports tree to get the latest patches you might need for -current 2. build and install -current 3. rebuild any ports that dump core You probably need an internet connection for step 3 in case you don't have the sources for a particular port in /usr/ports/distfiles, yet. Hm, I believe there is an option you can turn on when building ports that inhibts the actual compilation but does everything else, like e. g. download the source code. I don't know the name, however. Anyway, if you had this option, you could use it to download the sources for the problematic ports after step 1 and wouldn't need an internet connection in step 3. Wolfram -- A: Yes. >Q: Are you sure? >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?