Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:10:10 -0800 From: Micah <micahjon@ywave.com> To: Pete Slagle <freebsd-questions@voidcaptain.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade Message-ID: <442CABA2.8000404@ywave.com> In-Reply-To: <442C9B81.6020302@voidcaptain.com> References: <442C4D2D.6010603@ywave.com> <442C5EC2.6030302@ywave.com> <20060330235303.GA461@math.jussieu.fr> <200603301918.20035.donaldjoneill@gmail.com> <442C9B81.6020302@voidcaptain.com>
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Pete Slagle wrote: > Donald J. O'Neill wrote: >> On Thursday 30 March 2006 17:53, Albert Shih wrote: >>> Le 30/03/2006 à 14:42:10-0800, Micah a écrit >>>> illoai@gmail.com wrote: >>>> >>>> 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. >>> five...but not for firefox...for thunderbird (well I don't use it at >>> all...;-) ) >>> >>> Same problem when I try to laucnh thunderbird, nothing append, no >>> error.. >>> >>> Regards. >>> >>> using : FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE >> >> This happened to me also, until I remembered this has happened before >> and what to try. >> Login as root, start the GUI (mine is KDE), open a terminal program >> and start firefox from there. After that, I had no problems. It's >> working fine. > > Surprisingly, this worked perfectly for me with FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE, > although I didn't take the time to figure out why. > > I didn't even restart the GUI, I just ran Firefox and Thunderbird from a > xterm window as root, and then exited them. All fixed. I remember this being the Linux way to install the mozilla suite. Install, run as root first, then run as user. I never had to do that in FreeBSD. I'll try it as soon as I get back. - Micah
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