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Date:      Mon, 8 Aug 2005 20:28:46 -0400
From:      A Dude <adudek16@gmail.com>
To:        kono@kth.se
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: firefox doesn't work on amd64
Message-ID:  <96ba9bee05080817284b6db7dd@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200508081427.41936.kono@kth.se>
References:  <20050808120043.E8B3416A423@hub.freebsd.org> <200508081427.41936.kono@kth.se>

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I don't have anything special configured. I didn't change anything
between 1.05 and 1.06 but do a portupgrade.

Aaron

On 8/8/05, Alexander Konovalenko <kono@kth.se> wrote:
> > 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=3DISO-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 ha=
s
> > wrapped in calculation (did you pass G_MAXLONG?)
> >
> > (firefox-bin:3268): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_property_get(): length value ha=
s
> > wrapped in calculation (did you pass G_MAXLONG?)
> > *** loading the extensions datasource
> > *** ExtensionManager:_updateManifests: no access privileges to applicat=
ion
> > direc tory, skipping.
> >
> > (firefox-bin:3268): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_property_get(): length value ha=
s
> > wrapped in calculation (did you pass G_MAXLONG?)
> > *** loading the extensions datasource
> > *** ExtensionManager:_updateManifests: no access privileges to applicat=
ion
> > direc tory, skipping.
> >
>=20
>=20
> recently I have upgraded my firefox to 1.0.6, works fine on my AMD64 Athl=
on
> with FreeBSD 5.4 stable .....
>=20
> PS: do you compile your ports with optimization flags? check /etc/make.co=
nf
> 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
>=20
> /Alexander Konovalenko
>=20
> +46-8-5537-8142 (office)
> +46-7-3752-2116
> http://daemon.nanophys.kth.se/~kono
>=20
> Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
> Nanostructure Physics Department, Albanova
> Roslagstullsbacken 21
> 10691 Stockholm
> Sweden
>=20
>



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