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Date:      Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:02:01 +0200
From:      Frank Steinborn <steinex@nognu.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5 -- now that it's installed, it won't run
Message-ID:  <20090718170201.GB50723@nognu.de>
In-Reply-To: <20090718165105.GA46421@kokopelli.hydra>
References:  <20090717224837.GA52217@kokopelli.hydra> <20090718014347.1a182ef7.freebsd@edvax.de> <4a618085.gC691plCKOA4Tkt9%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <20090718165105.GA46421@kokopelli.hydra>

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Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:57:57AM -0700, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> > 
> > I suspect the real concern is not that the upgrade itself will
> > wreck something, but that the upgraded FF may do something odd
> > the first time it is fired up :(
> 
> That's a pretty good guess.
> 
> 
> > 
> > One hopes that backing up ~/.mozilla would cover it.
> 
> I hope so, too -- because that's what I tried.
> 
> Unfortunately, I haven't gotten far enough to see if anything was lost,
> because now Firefox 3.5.x won't start:
> 
>     Fatal error 'Recurse on a private mutex.' at line 986 in file
>     /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_mutex.c (errno = 2)
> 
> Does anyone have any thoughts on what I should do with this?

You must load the 'sem' kernel module.

Cheers,
Frank



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