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Date:      Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:52:54 +0100
From:      Volker Paulsen <volker.paulsen@gmd.de>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mozilla window won't open after upgrade
Message-ID:  <20030221095254.GA24369@cscwmail.gmd.de>
In-Reply-To: <20030221090930.GA55832@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:09:30AM -0800, David Schultz wrote:
> Thus spake Yann Golanski <yann@kierun.org>:
> > Quoth Brian T. Schellenberger on Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 20:48:51 -0500
> > > First mozilla-bin gets a segv, Then the script that invokes it fails
> > > to notice that it failed and doesn't give a useful message.
> > 
> > I  think I had the same problem.  Does mozilla run as root?  If it does,
> > run it as root (via sudo) and then chown/chgrp the $HOME/.mozilla to
> > your user/group and that should work from there onwards.  Then again, it
> > may have been another problem I was having...  Long life Mozybug.
> 
> Yes, mozilla quite annoyingly traps SIGSEGV.  Moreover, it is
> started by a chain of three shell scripts, which means it takes
> yet another step to debug.  For me, reinstalling some font-related
> port---fontconfig, I think---solved the problem.  It didn't help
> that a recent mega-commit changed a bunch of paths for X11 ports,
> so I backed out my ports collection to 2/17 for now.  If things
> don't compile, you might try that, too.

Just FYI, actually I ran into the same problem; this appeared exactly
after I upgraded Xft-2.1 to Xft-2.1_1. Afterwards all X clients needed
to be (re)linked against /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2. So I also rebuild
mozilla and the problem disappeared.

Regards,
--Volker

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