Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:42:10 -0800 From: Micah <micahjon@ywave.com> To: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBDS <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade Message-ID: <442C5EC2.6030302@ywave.com> In-Reply-To: <d7195cff0603301419p44d5d394ueb8f4b1db06b91e@mail.gmail.com> References: <442C4D2D.6010603@ywave.com> <442C4F39.4080004@gmx.at> <442C540B.7030709@ywave.com> <d7195cff0603301419p44d5d394ueb8f4b1db06b91e@mail.gmail.com>
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illoai@gmail.com wrote: > On 3/30/06, Micah <micahjon@ywave.com> wrote: >> Lars Cleary wrote: >>> 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. > >>> 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. > >> Checking... All files in ~/.mozilla and its subs are owned by my user >> and my user's group and have rw (x for dirs) as a minimum for user (some >> have r and rw for group). Likewise for ~/.thunderbird. > > might try mv .mozilla .moz-backup > and then try starting it again. Tried that. > The slightly more painful operation might be to upgrade > the whole dependancy tree under firefox/t-b. > > I think this would be: > portupgrade -ufR firefox* or summat (I'm fairly certain > from the original post that you've portupgrade installed). Was about to try that (see below) > Note that 1.5.0.1 works as advertised here, and I don't > use dunndarbrydde. 1.5.0.1_2 was commited last night, so it's probably a recent breakage. I just found a bug report on it at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=95100 So we have four confirmed cases of firefox not working. Thanks, Micah
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