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Date:      Thu, 30 Mar 2006 19:18:19 -0600
From:      "Donald J. O'Neill" <donaldjoneill@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, shih@math.jussieu.fr
Subject:   Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade
Message-ID:  <200603301918.20035.donaldjoneill@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060330235303.GA461@math.jussieu.fr>
References:  <442C4D2D.6010603@ywave.com> <442C5EC2.6030302@ywave.com> <20060330235303.GA461@math.jussieu.fr>

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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
>
> --
> Albert SHIH
> Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT)
> U.F.R. de Mathematiques.
> Heure local/Local time:
> Fri Mar 31 01:51:25 CEST 2006
> _______________________________________________

This happened to me also, until I remembered this has happened before=20
and what to try.=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.

Don



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