Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 18:30:28 GMT From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/73053: firefox 1.0PR cannot save preferences or bookmarks, when compiled WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS Message-ID: <200410241830.i9OIUSsA046830@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/73053; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/73053: firefox 1.0PR cannot save preferences or bookmarks, when compiled WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:28:41 -0400 --=-to0cVws2lzRzkcc8+zYA Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 13:53, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 05:36:29PM +0000, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > First, have you tried the suggestions in /usr/ports/UPDATING pertaining= to > > the Firefox 1.0.p update? If so, there have been bugs reported to Fire= fox's >=20 > I have tried all of these suggestions with firefox 1.0PR, without success= . >=20 > I have used some of these techniques with previous firefox releases to > resolve the specific earlier issues described, however. >=20 > > Bugzilla that indicate this could be a permissions issue. As root, try > >=20 > > # chown -R bms ~/.mozilla/firefox >=20 > All files and directories in the above were owned by bms when I ran 1.0PR= . >=20 > > I'm guessing your user is bms. If that doesn't work, checkout the list= of > > bugs pertaining to saving bookmarks in Firefox's Bugzilla. I have a fe= eling > > you're not alone in this, but thus far, I have not been able to reprodu= ce. > >=20 > > Oh, and of course, make sure you're running Firefox 1.0.1.p_4. >=20 > I have reverted to 0.9.3 to avoid the regressions for the time being. >=20 > ktrace(8) did not reveal any system call errors (e.g EPERM, ENOSPC) > during read()/write() around the time of bookmarking or preference > save operations. >=20 > I have observed these problems with www/mozilla releases in the past > when using WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS. It's strange that you can reliably reproduce this, and I have not been able to reproduce this once. And, yes, I use OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS as well.=20 There are some bugs filed against this, so hopefully this will be fixed in the future. Joe >=20 > BMS --=20 Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome --=-to0cVws2lzRzkcc8+zYA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBe/RZb2iPiv4Uz4cRAv1oAJ9UwApcjSLGTQ0FMaaPvhnmgQToewCgo08n SGe1SRI2ypR4J2g3uPJYUfI= =hwE7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-to0cVws2lzRzkcc8+zYA--
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