From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 30 22:42:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 67F3616A423 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 22:42:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: from relay3.av-mx.com (relay3.av-mx.com [137.118.16.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFABE43D53 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 22:42:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) X-Virus-Scan-Time: 0 Received: from [137.118.16.61] (HELO mx0.av-mx.com) by relay3.av-mx.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with SMTP id 226018248 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:42:13 -0500 Received: (qmail 10844 invoked from network); 30 Mar 2006 22:42:12 -0000 Received: from dsl30202.ywave.com (HELO ?192.168.1.64?) (micahjon@ywave.com@216.227.117.202) by 0 with SMTP; 30 Mar 2006 22:42:12 -0000 X-CLIENT-IP: 216.227.117.202 X-CLIENT-HOST: dsl30202.ywave.com Message-ID: <442C5EC2.6030302@ywave.com> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:42:10 -0800 From: Micah User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "illoai@gmail.com" References: <442C4D2D.6010603@ywave.com> <442C4F39.4080004@gmx.at> <442C540B.7030709@ywave.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBDS Subject: Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 22:42:14 -0000 illoai@gmail.com wrote: > On 3/30/06, Micah 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