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Date:      2 Nov 2004 18:38:12 +0100
From:      "Clemens Fischer" <ino-qc@spotteswoode.de.eu.org>
To:        "Joe Marcus Clarke" <marcus@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        gnome@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/73340: www/firefox install loops on invalid xinit invocation
Message-ID:  <is8o178l.fsf@ID-23066.news.dfncis.de>
In-Reply-To: <200410312230.i9VMUrnJ088544@freefall.freebsd.org> (Joe Marcus Clarke's message of "Sun, 31 Oct 2004 22:30:53 GMT")
References:  <200410312230.i9VMUrnJ088544@freefall.freebsd.org>

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* Joe Marcus Clarke:

> Synopsis: www/firefox install loops on invalid xinit invocation
>
> State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
> State-Changed-By: marcus
> State-Changed-When: Sun Oct 31 22:30:07 GMT 2004
> State-Changed-Why: 
> This usually means you have a bad .Xauthority file for root.  Try deleting
> /root/.Xauthority, and see if it works then.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=73340

thanks for the tip.  as is becoming customary, it proved helpful, yet ...

,----
| 0 p2 # xinit /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/lib/firefox-1.0/run-mozilla.sh \
| /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/lib/firefox-1.0/firefox-bin -install-global-extension \
| -- /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvfb :1001
| 
| cat: /root/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
| Invalid XPI/JAR Path: 1
| *** loading the extensions datasource
| 
| waiting for X server to shut down .
`----

exited zero.  suppose everything went fine, but:

,----
| 0 p2 # xinit /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/lib/firefox-1.0/run-mozilla.sh \
| /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/lib/firefox-1.0/firefox-bin -install-global-themes -- \
| /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvfb :1001
| 
| cat: /root/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
| load: 0.12  cmd: xinit 44869 [wait] 0.00u 0.01s 0% 1304k
| load: 0.03  cmd: xinit 44869 [wait] 0.00u 0.01s 0% 1304k
`----

this one doesn't finish.  computer idles for about fifteen minutes now.  what
is it supposed to do, and how do i check the steps manually?

  clemens



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