Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:03:37 +0200 From: Ilari Laitinen <ilari.laitinen@iki.fi> To: James Bailie <jimmy@mammothcheese.ca> Cc: Justin Smith <jsmith@drexel.edu>, gnome@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Firefox crashes on startup Message-ID: <20061114140337.GA94015@lohi.localhost> In-Reply-To: <4551E8EB.1080201@mammothcheese.ca> References: <1162993508.7782.3.camel@vorpal.math.drexel.edu> <4551E8EB.1080201@mammothcheese.ca>
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James Bailie <jimmy@mammothcheese.ca> 2006-11-08 16:25:47 +0200:
> Justin Smith wrote:
>
> > This problem first appeared after upgrading Gnome to 2.16. Oddly,
> > another computer seemingly configured exactly the same doesn't have this
> > problem.
>
> There is likely a library mismatch somewhere which was not caught
> by the ports system. I recently upgraded to firefox 2.0 and she
> crashed on startup, but after invoking "portupgrade -R firefox" to
> force an upgrade of dependencies, all was well. So that may be
> the first thing to try.
I had the same problem. It turned out that three Gnome libraries¹
were for some reason shadowed in /usr/X11R6/lib. "portsclean -Li"
solved the problem. Perhaps Justin should try that, too, if Firefox
still doesn't want to start.
Ilari Laitinen
1 libgtk-12.so.2
libgdk-12.so.2
libgconf-2.so.4
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Ilari Laitinen
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