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Date:      Thu, 23 Jan 2003 19:29:22 -0500 (EST)
From:      Dru <dlavigne6@cogeco.ca>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: mozilla 1.2.1,2
Message-ID:  <20030123192751.O201@dhcp-17-14.kico2.on.cogeco.ca>
In-Reply-To: <1043295100.381.6.camel@gyros>
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On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 20:37, Dru wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 16:34, Dru wrote:
> > > > <snippage>
> > > >
> > > > > This looks fine to me.  Have you modified /bin/sh at all?  Of course,
> > > > > this might be a red herring.  I'm not sure the shell is the thing
> > > > > outputting these messages.  I suspect a font problem perhaps.  Make sure
> > > > > you have the latest fontconfig and Xft (if you built Mozilla with Xft
> > > > > support), then run fc-cache.  While this shouldn't be necessary with the
> > > > > latest fontconfig, it may help.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Never touched /bin/sh.
> > > >
> > > > Where do I go about finding this fontconfig and Xft? (don't show up with
> > > > "which"). I noticed a connection to port 7001 today for the first time and
> > > > killed it as I had never seen it before (this was _after_ the mozilla
> > > > problem). It was for Xfbe or something like that.
> > >
> > > By default, Mozilla will build with Xft support.  If you don't want
> > > anti-aliased fonts, you can specify -DWITHOUT_XFT to disable this.
> > > Simply building Mozilla should result in a working version.  It works
> > > just fine for me.  Some users have reported problems if they do not have
> > > the latest freetype2 installed, or if they have bad fonts installed.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Ran fc-cache as root, same error when I try to start Mozilla. I'm thinking
> > > > of deinstalling (again) and reinstalling. Any suggestions to watch out for
> > > > when I retry the port?
> > >
> > > It might help if you run ./mozilla -g, then send a back trace if it
> > > happens to crash.
> >
> >
> > I've never used gdb, but I'll send the start of mozilla -g if it's any
> > help to you:
> >
> > mozilla -g
> > ./run-mozilla.sh -g ./mozilla-bin
> > MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=.
> >   LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:./plugins:/usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins:/usr/X11R6/lib/mre/mre-1.2.1
> > DISPLAY=:0.0
> > FONTCONFIG_PATH=/usr/X11R6/etc/fonts:./res/Xft
> > DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:/usr/X11R6/lib/mre/mre-1.2.1
> >      LIBRARY_PATH=.:./components:/usr/X11R6/lib/mre/mre-1.2.1
> >        SHLIB_PATH=.:/usr/X11R6/lib/mre/mre-1.2.1
> >           LIBPATH=.:/usr/X11R6/lib/mre/mre-1.2.1
> >        ADDON_PATH=.
> >       MOZ_PROGRAM=./mozilla-bin
> >       MOZ_TOOLKIT=
> >         moz_debug=1
> >      moz_debugger=
> > /usr/bin/gdb ./mozilla-bin -x /tmp/mozargs11858
>
> This actually doesn't help.  What would help is seeing the backtrace of
> Mozilla (if it crashes) when you type run from the gdb prompt.
>
> >
> > This was after a cleaning through my ports. I deinstalled mozilla,
> > flash-plugin, plugger, fontconfig, Xft. Cleaned out distfiles. Rebuilt
> > mozilla port from scratch. Same results.
> >
> > BTW, when I pkg_deleted mozilla, I got this message:
> >
> > file '/usr/X11R6/bin/mozilla" doesn't really exist
> >
> > That's where I gave up, installed linux-mozilla, put my bookmarks back,
> > and went back to surfing :-)
> >
> > Thanks for all of your help.
>
> You're the only one seeing this bug, so I imagine it is a problem local
> to your machine.  If you give me remote access, I can try and fix it for
> you.


Luck of the draw I guess :-) I seem to be OK with linux-mozilla so there's
not much sense looking for the needle in the haystack of my particular
oddball mix of software/hardware.

Thanks for the help.

Dru


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