Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 18:23:54 -0800 From: Gordon Broom <gjbroom@alumni.uwaterloo.ca> To: ajs@labs.mot.com Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mozilla window won't open after upgrade - FIXED Message-ID: <58951.1046312634@selfstyled.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:46:24 CST." <3E5A92B0.8010406@labs.mot.com>
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Aron Silverton wrote: > > > Matthew Dillon wrote: > > I had similar problems but reinstalling fontconfig did not do the trick. > > I also attempted to recompile and reinstall libXft, which didn't work, > > then recompiled mozilla from scratch... and that didn't work either. > > [...] > > Our ports system really sucks when it comes to managing very large > > ports like mozilla. > > > > -Matt > > Matthew Dillon > > <dillon@backplane.com> > > I had done a portupgrade -fR previously which is what really bothered > me. I probably wasted just as much time as you on getting this to work. > Perhaps in my situation Xft and the rest got build by the massive > upgrade, but fontconfig didn't. Fortunately it all seems to be working > for the time being. > > Aron > I wish I had your luck, Aron. I've rebuilt mozilla (using portupgrade -fR) at least 3 times (at ~3 hours a pop). I've rebuilt Xft and fontconfig themselves, in the middle of all this, just in case there was some dependency that wasn't updated properly. Yesterday I did a complete cvsup and installworld just in case there was some reliance on the underlying system, then rebuilt mozilla again. Still no luck. Both mozilla and mozilla-devel will just display "No matching window found" when I attempt to start them. This all came around by attempting an upgrade of galeon from 1.2.7 to 1.2.8 after a recent cvsup of the ports tree. Of course, galeon itself failed because there's a C++ error in the source code! Now the galeon that's still installed (because the portupgrade failed) claims that it was built against a different mozilla than what is there (which is true, because the mozilla updated, it just doesn't work), and promptly blows core whenever I try to do anything. I'm now forced to surf the web using lynx on an xterm because nothing else works. Netscape7 is verboten, linux-mozilla doesn't install because the version of linux-base I have is too new (presumably something else needed a newer one, who knows). What a house of cards. I'm frustrated and out of ideas. Gord. -- Gordon Broom email: <gjbroom@alumni.uwaterloo.ca> home tel: +1.250.384.6452 mobile: +1.250.884.6938 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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