From owner-freebsd-gnome Wed Jan 2 7:33:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from matrix.42.org (matrix.42.org [194.246.250.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 650C537B429; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 07:33:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sec@localhost) by matrix.42.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) id QAA25576 (sender ); Wed, 2 Jan 2002 16:33:11 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 16:33:11 +0100 From: Stefan `Sec` Zehl To: Joe Clarke Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mozilla port broken AGAIN :-( Message-ID: <20020102163310.A24089@matrix.42.org> X-Current-Backlog: 821 messages References: <20020102125236.3EDB6348@ice.42.org> <20020102094048.E17726-100000@creme-brulee.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20020102094048.E17726-100000@creme-brulee.marcuscom.com>; from marcus@marcuscom.com on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 09:42:13AM -0500 I-love-doing-this: really X-Modeline: vim:set ts=8 sw=4 smarttab tw=72 si noic notitle: Accept-Languages: de, en X-URL: http://sec.42.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 09:42:13AM -0500, Joe Clarke wrote: > Have you taken a look at ports/33311? I believe this has to do with your > locale setting. If you set your locale to C or US, things should work. > Hopefully, more language packas will be posted for Mozilla 0.9.7, and this > problem will go away. You seem to be right. after "unset LC_CTYPE" mozilla works again. Thanks :-) Wow this is _incredibly_ broken, simply failing that way. Maybe the port maintainer could add a warning for this to the installed start-mozilla shellscript so others won't stumble over this? Something like this would probably be enough: case "$LC_CTYPE" in ""|"US"|"C");; *) echo "If mozilla fails starting up, try \"unset LC_CTYPE\" beforehand";; esac CU, Sec -- A bug fixed before it is released. Amazing. -- Wietse Venema To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message