Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 19:01:21 -0800 From: Pete Slagle <freebsd-questions@voidcaptain.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade Message-ID: <442C9B81.6020302@voidcaptain.com> In-Reply-To: <200603301918.20035.donaldjoneill@gmail.com> References: <442C4D2D.6010603@ywave.com> <442C5EC2.6030302@ywave.com> <20060330235303.GA461@math.jussieu.fr> <200603301918.20035.donaldjoneill@gmail.com>
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Donald J. O'Neill wrote: > On Thursday 30 March 2006 17:53, Albert Shih wrote: >> Le 30/03/2006 =E0 14:42:10-0800, Micah a =E9crit >>> illoai@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>> 1.5.0.1_2 was commited last night, so it's probably a recent >>> breakage. I just found a bug report on it at >>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D95100 >>> So we have four confirmed cases of firefox not working. >> five...but not for firefox...for thunderbird (well I don't use it at >> all...;-) ) >> >> Same problem when I try to laucnh thunderbird, nothing append, no >> error.. >> >> Regards. >> >> using : FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE >=20 > This happened to me also, until I remembered this has happened before=20 > and what to try.=20 >=20 > Login as root, start the GUI (mine is KDE), open a terminal program and= =20 > start firefox from there. After that, I had no problems. It's working=20 > fine. Surprisingly, this worked perfectly for me with FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE,=20 although I didn't take the time to figure out why. I didn't even restart the GUI, I just ran Firefox and Thunderbird from a = xterm window as root, and then exited them. All fixed.
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