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
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