From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 24 13:46:33 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD94537B401 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:46:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from motgate5.mot.com (motgate5.mot.com [144.189.100.105]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F12DB43FDF for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:46:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ajs@labs.mot.com) Received: from mothost.mot.com (mothost.mot.com [129.188.137.101]) by motgate5.mot.com (Motorola/Motgate5) with ESMTP id h1OLkCVx014978 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:46:13 -0700 (MST) Received: [from az33exr04.mot.com (az33exr04.mot.com [10.64.251.234]) by mothost.mot.com (MOT-pobox 2.0) with ESMTP id OAA02080 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:46:27 -0700 (MST)] Received: from pobox.cstl.labs.mot.com (pobox.cstl.labs.mot.com [173.23.1.1]) by az33exr04.mot.com (8.11.6/az33exr04) with ESMTP id h1OLkDd22947 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:46:13 -0600 Received: from labs.mot.com ([173.23.93.76]) by pobox.cstl.labs.mot.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id HAU1TC00.TA1; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:46:24 -0600 Message-ID: <3E5A92B0.8010406@labs.mot.com> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:46:24 -0600 From: "Aron Silverton" Reply-To: ajs@labs.mot.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020918 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: "Brian T. Schellenberger" , David Schultz , Yann Golanski , Subject: Re: Mozilla window won't open after upgrade - FIXED References: <3E5568AF.1050100@labs.mot.com> <20030221084955.GC12058@kierun.org> <20030221090930.GA55832@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <200302210838.34252.bts@babbleon.org> <3E56705C.4010206@labs.mot.com> <200302241940.h1OJeY94046350@apollo.backplane.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon wrote: > :I did the same with fontconfig and now it works for me as well! > : > :Thanks, > : > :Aron > > I had similar problems but reinstalling fontconfig did not do the trick. > I also attempted to recompile and reinstall libXft, which didn't work, > then recompiled mozilla from scratch... and that didn't work either. > > What's interesting is that mozilla died in several different places. > It began by dying in fontconfig. When I rebuilt fontconfig it died > in Xft. When I rebuilt Xft it died in its javascript submodule. > > Portupgrade upgraded about half of the required packages in -fR mode > but died trying to install libiconv on a stale file in /usr/X11. > However, once I got those glitches worked out and the entire ports > tree dependancy rebuilt (in force mode, whether a package was up-to-date > or not)... *THEN* rebuilt mozilla from scratch (for the fourth time)... > then mozilla started working again. But, jeeze, it took about 8 man > hours over two days to get it working again! > > Our ports system really sucks when it comes to managing very large > ports like mozilla. > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > I had done a portupgrade -fR previously which is what really bothered me. I probably wasted just as much time as you on getting this to work. Perhaps in my situation Xft and the rest got build by the massive upgrade, but fontconfig didn't. Fortunately it all seems to be working for the time being. Aron -- Aron J. Silverton Senior Staff Research Engineer Motorola Laboratories, Networks and Infrastructure Research Motorola, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message