From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 23 21:35:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A39416A4DF for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:35:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pbowen@fastmail.fm) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B611143D49 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:35:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pbowen@fastmail.fm) Received: from frontend3.internal (frontend3.internal [10.202.2.152]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE502D91B7D for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 17:35:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by frontend3.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 23 Jul 2006 17:35:40 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: s2qfrEWs6TshHomshlKc6saxntxcSIJ98UIR9NcCj/Dk 1153690530 Received: from [10.50.31.168] (unknown [204.110.228.254]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23E566E0D for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 17:35:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44C3EBA5.7030007@fastmail.fm> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 16:35:33 -0500 From: Patrick Bowen User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060723) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <44BADEC8.5030807@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <44BADEC8.5030807@fastmail.fm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Firefox on -current dumps core. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:35:40 -0000 Patrick Bowen wrote: > Hello. > > I recently upgraded a Gateway MX6121 from 6.1 stable to -current, > following the canonical procedure in /usr/src/UPDATING, and now > whenever I try to start firefox, it dumps a core file (segmentation > fault). Firefox was compiled from source under 6.1. > > Should I have upgraded from 6.1 to -current, and /then/ start adding > ports, or does that matter? I've done some preliminary googling, but > not found anything that looks terribly recent or promising. > > Any hints appreciated. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Just to close this out... These are the steps I followed to move to current, and eliminate the seg-faults from firefox. 1. Installed 6.1 on a clean partition (I wanted to elimiate any extraneous cruft). 2. Sysinstall'ed portupgrade, csup, firefox, and windowmaker. 3. Did portupgrade -FRv on the ports I added in step 2 (this way I'd have the files I needed, without having to have a wireless connection after step 4). 4. Canonical upgrade to current. 5. Did make && make install for /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade and /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8 (otherwise portupgrade seg-faulted). 6. Did portupgrade -aR to bring everything up to date. Works fine, lasts a long time. If I paint it green, I think it might grow! Thanks to everyone for their help. Patrick Addendum: from now on I'm sticking to distfiles instead of packages.