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Date:      22 Jan 2003 23:11:41 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Dru <dlavigne6@cogeco.ca>
Cc:        FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: mozilla 1.2.1,2
Message-ID:  <1043295100.381.6.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <20030122203357.U201@dhcp-17-14.kico2.on.cogeco.ca>
References:  <20030122154951.G201@dhcp-17-14.kico2.on.cogeco.ca> <1043269749.339.33.camel@gyros> <20030122161758.Y201@dhcp-17-14.kico2.on.cogeco.ca> <1043270334.339.42.camel@gyros> <20030122162834.F201@dhcp-17-14.kico2.on.cogeco.ca> <1043273390.339.50.camel@gyros> <20030122203357.U201@dhcp-17-14.kico2.on.cogeco.ca>

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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.

Joe

> 
> Dru
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