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Date:      Thu, 20 Dec 2018 10:06:24 -0500
From:      Scott Ballantyne <boyvalue@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   pkg upgrade firefox hoses mate
Message-ID:  <CAESeg0zS85S8GEFgTT8DOe14zzmOr8yATUMgcR2GDy2qbRAa=w@mail.gmail.com>

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Good morning all,
This is on a 10.4-release-p9 freebsd system.

Summary: using pkg upgrade on firefox results in
a non-working firefox and the inabilit to login. A most
unfortunate side effect of pkg upgrade :(

Details:

Firexfox told me that it was badly out of date, so I did
pkg update
pkg upgrade firefox

firefox then failed to run (unresolved symbols). Thinking a reboot
would help, I rebooted (without writing down the missing syms unfortunately)
and now my mate session will not start

the messages file shows:
Dec 20 09:29:15 gigawattmomma gnome-keyring-daemon[1122]: The PKCS#11
component was already initialized
Dec 20 09:29:15 gigawattmomma gnome-keyring-daemon[1122]: The Secret
Service was already initialized
Dec 20 09:29:16 gigawattmomma gnome-keyring-daemon[1122]: The SSH agent was
already initialized
Dec 20 09:29:16 gigawattmomma dbus[741]: [system] Activating service
name='org.freedesktop.UPower' (using servicehelper)
Dec 20 09:29:16 gigawattmomma dbus[741]: [system] Successfully activated
service 'org.freedesktop.UPower'
Dec 20 09:29:17 gigawattmomma pulseaudio[1174]: [(null)] pid.c: Daemon
already running.
Dec 20 09:29:18 gigawattmomma dbus[741]: [system] Activating service
name='org.mate.SettingsDaemon.DateTimeMechanism' (using servicehelper)
Dec 20 09:29:18 gigawattmomma dbus[741]: [system] Successfully activated
service 'org.mate.SettingsDaemon.DateTimeMechanism'
Dec 20 09:29:20 gigawattmomma console-kit-daemon[997]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv
failed:
Dec 20 09:29:41 gigawattmomma last message repeated 16 times
Dec 20 09:29:41 gigawattmomma mate-session[1108]: WARNING: Child process
1609 was already dead.
Dec 20 09:29:42 gigawattmomma console-kit-daemon[997]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv
failed:
Dec 20 09:29:48 gigawattmomma last message repeated 6 times
Dec 20 09:29:49 gigawattmomma dbus[741]: [system] Activating service
name='org.mate.SettingsDaemon.DateTimeMechanism' (using servicehelper)
Dec 20 09:29:49 gigawattmomma dbus[741]: [system] Successfully activated
service 'org.mate.SettingsDaemon.DateTimeMechanism'
Dec 20 09:29:50 gigawattmomma console-kit-daemon[997]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv
failed:
Dec 20 09:30:18 gigawattmomma last message repeated 35 times
Dec 20 09:30:20 gigawattmomma dbus[741]: [system] Activating service
name='org.mate.SettingsDaemon.DateTimeMechanism' (using servicehelper)
Dec 20 09:30:20 gigawattmomma dbus[741]: [system] Successfully activated
service 'org.mate.SettingsDaemon.DateTimeMechanism'
Dec 20 09:30:21 gigawattmomma console-kit-daemon[997]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv
failed:
Dec 20 09:30:47 gigawattmomma last message repeated 29 times
Dec 20 09:30:51 gigawattmomma dbus[741]: [system] Activating service
name='org.mate.SettingsDaemon.DateTimeMechanism' (using servicehelper)
Dec 20 09:30:51 gigawattmomma dbus[741]: [system] Successfully activated
service 'org.mate.SettingsDaemon.DateTimeMechanism'
Dec 20 09:30:51 gigawattmomma console-kit-daemon[997]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv
failed:
Dec 20 09:31:21 gigawattmomma last message repeated 26 times
Dec 20 09:31:21 gigawattmomma dbus[741]: [system] Activating service
name='org.mate.SettingsDaemon.DateTimeMechanism' (using servicehelper)
Dec 20 09:31:21 gigawattmomma dbus[741]: [system] Successfully activated
service 'org.mate.SettingsDaemon.DateTimeMechanism'
Dec 20 09:31:22 gigawattmomma console-kit-daemon[997]: WARNING:
get_kinfo_proc failed: No such process
Dec 20 09:31:23 gigawattmomma console-kit-daemon[997]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv
failed:
Dec 20 09:31:31 gigawattmomma last message repeated 8 times
Dec 20 09:31:33 gigawattmomma console-kit-daemon[997]: WARNING:
get_kinfo_proc failed: No such process
Dec 20 09:31:35 gigawattmomma console-kit-daemon[997]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv
failed:
Dec 20 09:31:41 gigawattmomma last message repeated 7 times
Dec 20 09:31:42 gigawattmomma mate-session[1108]: WARNING: Child process
3815 was already dead

and etc.

I can still SSH to that computer, which is how I extracted these logfiles.

Any suggestions are most welcome.

Thanks!
Scott



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