Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 17:03:21 -0500 From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@freebsd.org> To: aaron@alpete.com Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mozilla Firefox and firebird problems after sat 022604upgradeofFreeBSD-current Message-ID: <200403012203.i21M3Ln5067385@green.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "Aaron Peterson" <aaron@alpete.com> <2660.162.114.211.143.1078176728.squirrel@mail.alpete.com>
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"Aaron Peterson" <aaron@alpete.com> wrote: > > Why in the world are you going around recompiling ports and changing > > dotfiles to find a lock-up? Either X is having problems, or the kernel is > > having problems. Go to the _CONSOLE_ and execute the programs that are > > "causing" the "lock-up" and you will stand a chance at actually finding > > and > > fixing whatever is going wrong. > > > > Ctrl-Alt-F1 > > <login> > > DISPLAY=:0.0 firefox > > > > (or whatever) > > because i don't know what else to do, and don't know what is causing the > problem, obviously. thanks for the kind advice. i will try it. Sorry for the tone I used; I'm not accusing you of anything. It's just not going to be helpful to anyone else (who can't repeat it themselves just by starting the applications, as you describe, because i just doesn't happen). Were you able to get a backtrace now? -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green@FreeBSD.org \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\
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