Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 09:10:24 -0500 From: Jeremy Faulkner <gldisater@gldis.ca> To: Benjamin Walkenhorst <krylon@gmx.net> Cc: FreeBSD_Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Firefox and Mozilla stopped working Message-ID: <418E2CD0.8050307@gldis.ca> In-Reply-To: <418DEA1D.1060000@gmx.net> References: <418DEA1D.1060000@gmx.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: | Hello everybody, | | I am using FreeBSD 5.3-RC2 | I recently grabbed a recent ports-tree via ftp and happily installed | firefox-1.0rc1. | After the build process said "Building Chrome Registry", firefox-bin was | eating all free | CPU-cycles. | When I rebuilt, the same thing happened. | Even more weird, Mozilla won't run anymore, either. | Now I get the following error when I want to start firefox or mozilla: | ############################################## | === 09:59:45 krylon@neuromancer:~:: firefox | [: Abort: unexpected operator | Fatal error 'Spinlock called when not threaded.' at line 83 in file | /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_spinlock.c (errno = 0) | Abort trap (core dumped) | ############################################## | | What have I done wrong? I already uninstalled firefox and mozilla and | reinstalled the old ports tree and rebuild | firefox 0.9.3. It still gave me that error. | I reinstalled mozilla, it also gave me that error. | | What is wrong here? | I have already done an upgrade to 5.3-RELEASE, but the problem persists. | (In case it matters, I have an SMP machine as well as an SMP-enabled | kernel.) | | Has anyone had similar problems? Or am I just too stupid? | | Kind regards, | Benjamin When upgrading Mozilla/Firefox you have to delete certain directories and files from your ~/.mozilla directory. This is why it is having problems. See mozilla's website for a complete list of instructions. - -- Jeremy Faulkner <gldisater@gldis.ca> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBjizPfb0Lle2MIEIRAtYfAJ95X0GKU034f9Z9bh8mOGe85ed3PACg0NeP mUn2S/inXPTnsiH0ZW345YA= =kWhd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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