Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:01:25 +0100 From: Koop Mast <kwm@rainbow-runner.nl> To: Dave <freebsd01@dgmm.net>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Caveat: Firefox and Thunderbird not working with latest GTK Message-ID: <54738085.2030509@rainbow-runner.nl> In-Reply-To: <4174488.EsCUSbJpcX@amd.asgard.uk> References: <54730B38.9050909@netfence.it> <4174488.EsCUSbJpcX@amd.asgard.uk>
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On 24-11-2014 18:08, Dave wrote: > On Monday 24 November 2014 11:40:56 Andrea Venturoli wrote: >> Hello. >> >> The box is a 9.3/i386 and I'm using portupgrade to compile ports from >> source; the desktop environment is XFCE. >> >> Yesterday evening I updated some unrelated ports and some dependencies >> of Firefox and Thunderbird were updated: after that, those two >> applications were not running properly. >> The main window would come up, but never be updated anymore; if I typed >> on the keyboard I could perceive something happening under the hood >> (other windows popping up, network packets flowing), but I would see >> nothing on the screen (the main window would stay exactly as it was when >> it opened). >> >> I removed all extensions, but to no avail. >> I tried "portupgrade -Rf thunderbird firefox" and let the box compile >> all night, but again, no luck. >> So I downgraded all the ports that had been updated and FF and TB >> started working again. >> Then I began updating them one at a time and found the culprit to be >> gtk: when upgrading from 2.24.22_4 to 2.24.25 I get the behaviour >> described above; after downgrading, both programs work again. >> >> I did the same test on another box (10.0/amd64) and got the same results. > I found the same here with regard to news/pan. > > FreeBSD 9.3, AMD64 here. > > The stalled GUI update symptom occurs after using the search feature. The > mouse pointer changes from text selection on moving across the search text box > to the paintbrush "clear" button and clicking that button brings the GUI > updates back to life. > > I'll try the gtk downgrade and report back. Or update the gtk20 port to 2.24.25_1. This should fix the UI update issues in firefox. -Koop
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