From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 7 14:10:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2D5116A4CE for ; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 14:10:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gldis.ca (constans.gldis.ca [66.11.169.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12E2743D45 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 14:10:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gldisater@gldis.ca) Received: from [IPv6:::1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gldis.ca (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iA7E8g62067972; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 09:08:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gldisater@gldis.ca) Message-ID: <418E2CD0.8050307@gldis.ca> Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 09:10:24 -0500 From: Jeremy Faulkner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20041102) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benjamin Walkenhorst References: <418DEA1D.1060000@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <418DEA1D.1060000@gmx.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80rc4/561/Fri Oct 29 06:26:00 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j on constans.gldis.ca X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: FreeBSD_Questions Subject: Re: Firefox and Mozilla stopped working X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 14:10:04 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: | Hello everybody, | | I am using FreeBSD 5.3-RC2 | I recently grabbed a recent ports-tree via ftp and happily installed | firefox-1.0rc1. | After the build process said "Building Chrome Registry", firefox-bin was | eating all free | CPU-cycles. | When I rebuilt, the same thing happened. | Even more weird, Mozilla won't run anymore, either. | Now I get the following error when I want to start firefox or mozilla: | ############################################## | === 09:59:45 krylon@neuromancer:~:: firefox | [: Abort: unexpected operator | Fatal error 'Spinlock called when not threaded.' at line 83 in file | /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_spinlock.c (errno = 0) | Abort trap (core dumped) | ############################################## | | What have I done wrong? I already uninstalled firefox and mozilla and | reinstalled the old ports tree and rebuild | firefox 0.9.3. It still gave me that error. | I reinstalled mozilla, it also gave me that error. | | What is wrong here? | I have already done an upgrade to 5.3-RELEASE, but the problem persists. | (In case it matters, I have an SMP machine as well as an SMP-enabled | kernel.) | | Has anyone had similar problems? Or am I just too stupid? | | Kind regards, | Benjamin When upgrading Mozilla/Firefox you have to delete certain directories and files from your ~/.mozilla directory. This is why it is having problems. See mozilla's website for a complete list of instructions. - -- Jeremy Faulkner -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBjizPfb0Lle2MIEIRAtYfAJ95X0GKU034f9Z9bh8mOGe85ed3PACg0NeP mUn2S/inXPTnsiH0ZW345YA= =kWhd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----