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Subject: Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade
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Micah wrote:
> 
> I just updated my ports collection this morning and upgraded all out of 
> date ports, including thunderbird and firefox.  Now typing thunderbird 
> or firefox on the command line does absolutely nothing.  firefox or 
> thunderbird do not show up in ps (checked using ps -auwx | grep 
> firefox).  No error messages are displayed.  The only clue is that the 
> return code is 1.
> 
> Sample session:
> trisha% firefox
> trisha% echo $?
> 1
> trisha%
> 
> The only thing in /usr/ports/UPDATING on firefox is from 2004.
> 
> I upgraded my ports by using the script generated by "portversion -c", 
> which uses portupgrade and just lists the names of the ports on the line 
> (eg portupgrade firefox thunderbird otherstuff).  This is on a 
> 6.0-RELEASE-p6 system.
> 
> uname -a
> FreeBSD trisha.eidolonworld 6.0-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p6 #0: 
> Thu Mar 23 19:38:49 PST 2006 
> root@trisha.eidolonworld:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TRISHA  i386
> 
> Any clues on what's wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> Micah
Recently someone solved a problem with the same symptom by
changing the ownership of the profiles of Firefox and Thunderbird,
the were b0rked and couldnt' be read.

Maybe that helps.

Lars