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Date:      Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:03:18 -0700
From:      Keith Seyffarth <weif@weif.net>
To:        Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?
Message-ID:  <84pqrr0xhl.fsf@maxwell.cjones.org>
In-Reply-To: <E7166327-E3E4-4A10-B682-7ECCB3DABD53@mac.com> (message from Chuck Swiger on Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:50:46 -0800)
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Chuck,

> Nope, not if you cvsup or use csup (which comes with the system
> already, most likely) to RELENG_7_2 or RELENG_7, the latter of which
> would give you 7-STABLE, which is approaching 7.4 nowadays.
>
>> I suspect that would not have the desired end result of a running
>> computer...
>
> Actually, you can run a 7.x userland under a 8.x kernel.
> That's how a major version update of FreeBSD from source is supposed
> to work.  :-)
>
>> Or should I just build the kernel with what's currently in /usr/src?
>
> That should also work.  But it's beneficial to update your sources for
> the version you wish to run, since you will gain security changes
> which have been made since....

Thanks again.

Got /usr/src updated. Got a new kernel built.

FreeBSD janet.weif.net 7.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.4-PRERELEASE #0: Thu Jan
20 19:39:15 MST 2011     weif@janet.weif.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JANET
i386


Kernel booted, x started, firefox started, firefox closed without
crashing.

now to uninstall FF3.5 and install FF3.6

Keith



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