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Date:      Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:30:52 -0600
From:      "Aron Silverton" <ajs@labs.mot.com>
To:        "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>
Cc:        David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.berkeley.edu>, Yann Golanski <yann@kierun.org>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Mozilla window won't open after upgrade - FIXED
Message-ID:  <3E56705C.4010206@labs.mot.com>
References:  <3E5568AF.1050100@labs.mot.com> <20030221084955.GC12058@kierun.org> <20030221090930.GA55832@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <200302210838.34252.bts@babbleon.org>

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I did the same with fontconfig and now it works for me as well!

Thanks,

Aron

Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
> BINGO!
> 
> That did it.
> 
> I did
> 
> pkg_delete -f fontconfig\*
> cd /usr/ports/*/fontconfig
> make install
> 
> and now it's all peachy.
> 
> I will update bugzilla momentarily.
> 
> PS:
> 
> To Yann Golanski:   My mozilla is not SUID root, so that wasn't
>                     the problem I was having, but thank you very
>                     much for the suggestion.
> 
> To Darren Pilgrim:  It might work to .undef STRIP, but if so it looks
>                     like I'd have to do a rebuild to make it work, 
>                     because just doing
>                     make deinstall
>                     make STRIP= reinstall
>                     (or make deinstall; edit to add .undef STRIP;
>                     make reinstall)
>                     didn't do it, so it looks like STRIP, if it does
>                     make it strip, does do it "in place."
>                     Since the above fixed the problem I saw no reason
>                     to take the time for a full rebuild.
> 
> 
> 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.
> 


-- 
Aron J. Silverton
Senior Staff Research Engineer
Motorola Laboratories, Networks and Infrastructure Research
Motorola, Inc.

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