Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 14:27:41 +0200 From: Alexander Konovalenko <kono@kth.se> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: adudek16@gmail.com Subject: Re: firefox doesn't work on amd64 Message-ID: <200508081427.41936.kono@kth.se> In-Reply-To: <20050808120043.E8B3416A423@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20050808120043.E8B3416A423@hub.freebsd.org>
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> Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 14:28:28 -0400 > From: A Dude <adudek16@gmail.com> > Subject: firefox doesn't work on amd64 > To: gnome@freebsd.org > Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <96ba9bee05080711286272574a@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > I can second this. Firefox 1.06 doesn't run on AMD64. > > adudek@cooljack: ~/ >uname -a > FreeBSD cooljack.msdp.net 5.4-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p6 #3: > Sat Jul 30 20:45:01 EDT 2005 > root@cooljack.msdp.net:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/Cooljack amd64 > > adudek@cooljack: /usr/ports/www/firefox/ >ls -la Makefile > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 9944 Jul 30 11:59 Makefile > adudek@cooljack: /usr/ports/www/firefox/ > > > Type firefox and it doesn't run but cores. I can provide if needed.. > Even weirder is that if I start firefox and provide a argument/url > then it starts. If I provide no argument/url then it doesn't even > load. I have even deleted exisiting ~/.mozilla. > After further testing, it appears that you must run firefox as root > first before it will run as anyother user. Why is this? > Errors/messages seen on startup when providing a startup url > adudek@cooljack: ~/.mozilla/firefox/bsw2tchf.default/ >firefox d > > (firefox-bin:3268): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_property_get(): length value has > wrapped in calculation (did you pass G_MAXLONG?) > > (firefox-bin:3268): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_property_get(): length value has > wrapped in calculation (did you pass G_MAXLONG?) > *** loading the extensions datasource > *** ExtensionManager:_updateManifests: no access privileges to application > direc tory, skipping. > > (firefox-bin:3268): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_property_get(): length value has > wrapped in calculation (did you pass G_MAXLONG?) > *** loading the extensions datasource > *** ExtensionManager:_updateManifests: no access privileges to application > direc tory, skipping. > recently I have upgraded my firefox to 1.0.6, works fine on my AMD64 Athlon with FreeBSD 5.4 stable ..... PS: do you compile your ports with optimization flags? check /etc/make.conf for CFLAGS variable and try to compile firefox port without -Ox and -ffast-math flags, sometimes combination of those flags does not produce "executable" code for me /Alexander Konovalenko +46-8-5537-8142 (office) +46-7-3752-2116 http://daemon.nanophys.kth.se/~kono Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Nanostructure Physics Department, Albanova Roslagstullsbacken 21 10691 Stockholm Sweden
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