Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 22:08:53 +0000 From: Dave <freebsd01@dgmm.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Caveat: Firefox and Thunderbird not working with latest GTK Message-ID: <2771370.Bf6oPDPexk@amd.asgard.uk> In-Reply-To: <54738085.2030509@rainbow-runner.nl> References: <54730B38.9050909@netfence.it> <4174488.EsCUSbJpcX@amd.asgard.uk> <54738085.2030509@rainbow-runner.nl>
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On Monday 24 November 2014 20:01:25 Koop Mast wrote: > On 24-11-2014 18:08, Dave wrote: > > On Monday 24 November 2014 11:40:56 Andrea Venturoli wrote: > >> Hello. > >> > >> The box is a 9.3/i386 and I'm using portupgrade to compile ports from > >> source; the desktop environment is XFCE. > >> > >> Yesterday evening I updated some unrelated ports and some dependencies > >> of Firefox and Thunderbird were updated: after that, those two > >> applications were not running properly. > >> The main window would come up, but never be updated anymore; if I typed > >> on the keyboard I could perceive something happening under the hood > >> (other windows popping up, network packets flowing), but I would see > >> nothing on the screen (the main window would stay exactly as it was when > >> it opened). > >> > >> I removed all extensions, but to no avail. > >> I tried "portupgrade -Rf thunderbird firefox" and let the box compile > >> all night, but again, no luck. > >> So I downgraded all the ports that had been updated and FF and TB > >> started working again. > >> Then I began updating them one at a time and found the culprit to be > >> gtk: when upgrading from 2.24.22_4 to 2.24.25 I get the behaviour > >> described above; after downgrading, both programs work again. > >> > >> I did the same test on another box (10.0/amd64) and got the same results. > > > > I found the same here with regard to news/pan. > > > > FreeBSD 9.3, AMD64 here. > > > > The stalled GUI update symptom occurs after using the search feature. The > > mouse pointer changes from text selection on moving across the search text > > box to the paintbrush "clear" button and clicking that button brings the > > GUI updates back to life. > > > > I'll try the gtk downgrade and report back. > > Or update the gtk20 port to 2.24.25_1. This should fix the UI update > issues in firefox. Yes, I saw that update and tried it. It fixed the Pan symptoms too. > -Koop > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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