From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 11 21:24:35 2002 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 0FD3637B401 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 21:24:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lakemtao02.cox.net (lakemtao02.cox.net [68.1.17.243]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4495043E3B for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 21:23:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ataraxia@cox.net) Received: from arkadia ([68.98.184.165]) by lakemtao02.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with SMTP id <20021012042311.MBAB12192.lakemtao02.cox.net@arkadia>; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 00:23:11 -0400 Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 00:23:14 -0400 From: Ray Kohler To: Joe Marcus Clarke Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mozilla won't start Message-Id: <20021012002314.3e5690d8.ataraxia@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <1034395323.347.6.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> References: <20021012003457.RFEE5053.lakemtao06.cox.net@smtp.central.cox.net> <1034395323.347.6.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 12 Oct 2002 00:02:03 -0400 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 20:27, Ray Kohler wrote: > > I've just got back into FreeBSD today, so maybe this is old news... > > > > Mozilla won't start for me at all. It exits immediately (returning > > 1), with no other information. Ktrace shows that it does get as far > > as actually executing the real binary. www/mozilla (built from > > source), www/mozilla-devel (installed from pre-built package), and > > even www/linux-mozilla behave exactly the same. This is very > > mysterious and very frustrating, any help would be greatly > > appreciated. > > This is the first time I've heard a report of this. Since the problem > affects both the native and Linux versions of you might want to look > at possible kernel issues. Which brings up a good question: what > version of FreeBSD is this? If it's -stable or -CURRENT, did you do > an installworld when you last did an installkernel? ~ 12:16AM % uname -a FreeBSD XXXXXXXXXX 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #0: Fri Oct 11 17:54:34 EDT 2002 root@XXXXXXXXXXXXX:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARKADIA i386 Freshly installed and upgraded today, as you can see. I upgraded according to the usual rules in src/UPDATING. (I'm not actually a newbie, I've just been gone for a month or two.) Another data point: the newly-added www/linux-phoenix port (a mozilla-lite) works fine. So far this problem is limited strictly to things named 'mozilla' ;-S - @ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message