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Date:      Fri, 21 Feb 2003 08:12:57 -0500
From:      "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>
To:        David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.berkeley.edu>, Yann Golanski <yann@kierun.org>
Cc:        ajs@labs.mot.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mozilla window won't open after upgrade
Message-ID:  <200302210812.57596.bts@babbleon.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030221090930.GA55832@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
References:  <3E5568AF.1050100@labs.mot.com> <20030221084955.GC12058@kierun.org> <20030221090930.GA55832@HAL9000.homeunix.com>

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I'll try these two suggestions, but one thing I *did* (eventually) 
figure out --

it's actually very easy to debug mozilla, just invoke it as

mozilla -g

and the scripts will automatically startup it up under gdb.


On Friday 21 February 2003 04:09 am, David Schultz wrote:
| Thus spake Yann Golanski <yann@kierun.org>:
| > Quoth Brian T. Schellenberger on Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 20:48:51
| > -0500
| >
| > > First mozilla-bin gets a segv, Then the script that invokes it
| > > fails to notice that it failed and doesn't give a useful message.
| >
| > I  think I had the same problem.  Does mozilla run as root?  If it
| > does, run it as root (via sudo) and then chown/chgrp the
| > $HOME/.mozilla to your user/group and that should work from there
| > onwards.  Then again, it may have been another problem I was
| > having...  Long life Mozybug.
|
| Yes, mozilla quite annoyingly traps SIGSEGV.  Moreover, it is
| started by a chain of three shell scripts, which means it takes
| yet another step to debug.  For me, reinstalling some font-related
| port---fontconfig, I think---solved the problem.  It didn't help
| that a recent mega-commit changed a bunch of paths for X11 ports,
| so I backed out my ports collection to 2/17 for now.  If things
| don't compile, you might try that, too.

-- 
Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . .   bts@babbleon.org (personal)

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