Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 21:14:34 GMT From: Luke Weagant <maytagman@gmail.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: www/68531: firefox 9.1 source install problem Message-ID: <200406302114.i5ULEYAS092639@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200406302120.i5ULKOXk094865@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 68531 >Category: www >Synopsis: firefox 9.1 source install problem >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-www >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Jun 30 21:20:24 GMT 2004 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Luke Weagant >Release: 5.2.1 >Organization: Mimic.ca >Environment: FreeBSD amnesia.maybox.net 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Feb 23 20:45:55 GMT 2004 root@wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >Description: Download firefox9.1 source from the freebsd.org www ports collection, unpackage it and run a make build. everything goes perfectly. Run make install... it runs for a minute then spits out a python error. Install would not go so i figured out how to do it manually... which led me to more problems. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: I went into the build directory as root and tried running the firefox binary i had just compiled. it worked perfectly. i then decided i would just manually install the files in their proper directores. I created a symlink to the binary and changed back to my normal user. Firefox fails to start stating that it could not find an extension. I fixed this by changing to su and opening firefox. From inside the program i disabled the auto update feature and exited. When i changed back to normal user it finally started, stating something about not having access to an extension. There was still a problem though... when i started the program it said 'default user in use. make new one' so i did. i quit the program and restarted and it gave me the same error once again and didnt show the profile i had just made in my home dir. i quit and sure enough the profile was there but firefox couldnt see it. I decided to edit the initialization file in my /home/user/.firefox/profiles/ to te ll it to open the new profile i had created. Now it works perfect, but hopefully you can now make it simpler for the next person >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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