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Date:      Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:57:06 +0200
From:      Beat Gaetzi <beat@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Stijn Bouwhuis <stijn.bouwhuis@gmail.com>
Cc:        gecko@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Installing firefox 3.5 on FreeBSD fails
Message-ID:  <4A814E82.6080308@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <5177cd590908110320s22e36107w3cebe24dcbab3517@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <5177cd590908110320s22e36107w3cebe24dcbab3517@mail.gmail.com>

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Stijn Bouwhuis wrote:
> A ports installation of firefox35 leads to the application crashing on
> a freshly installed machine running xfce 4.4.2. The standards tabs
> open, the status bar mentions "Transferring data from [website]" and
> after about 3 seconds, the application crashes. In addition, firefox
> is not listed as a browser among the xfce preferred applications, the
> list that is automatically generated based on installed applications.
> 
> madrid# /usr/local/bin/firefox3
> LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
> /root/.mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so [/root/.mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so:
> unsupported file layout]
> Bad system call (core dumped)

You need to load the sem module:
# kldload sem

To load sem on every boot put the following line into your
/boot/loader.conf:
sem_load="YES"

Beat



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