[belated follow-up] so, i rebuilt a minimal version of mozilla _with debugging_ like so.
# make --WITH_DEBUG=yes --WITHOUT_XFT=yes --WITHOUT_MAILNEWS=yes --WITHOUT_COMPOSER=yes --WITHOUT_LDAP=yes --WITHOUT_CHATZILLA=yes install #rehash # mozilla No running window found. # i don't haven't really used in depth gdb (i'm not a programmer), but i know to 'gdb [program]' then 'run'. here's what happens... # gdb mozilla GNU gdb 4.18 (FreeBSD) Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-freebsd"... "/usr/X11R6/bin/mozilla": not in executable format: File format not recognized <<<<-------- ?!?! (gdb) run Starting program: No executable file specified. <<<<-------- naturally, given above... Use the "file" or "exec-file" command. <<<<------- hmmmm. (gdb) file mozilla "/usr/X11R6/bin/mozilla": not in executable format: File format not recognized (gdb) quit i've also tried pkg_add -r, but that didn't work out any better. same 'no window running' error message. would anyone have an idea about how to get either mozilla or firefox working? (they've worked in the past. i suspect a font related issue, but don't know what to do to troubleshoot.) for anyone who tries to help out, a really big THANKS. cheers, epi --------- Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 23:15:51 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mozilla, no running window. Firefox, even less... I finished rebuilding firefox --WITH_DEBUG=YES. Attached are 2 files of the output I now get when I attempt to run the program (both a regular user and as root). Unfortunately, I don't really know what to make of the messages. If you do, please let me know. Off to rebuild mozilla and capture same debug info... Thanks, Epi ------------- Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 14:59:02 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mozilla, no running window. Firefox, even less... would anyone else have a suggestion? thanks. ------------- Begin forwarded message: Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:48:55 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mozilla, no running window. Firefox, even less... hello all, alas, i haven't yet found the solution via google or mozillazine.org. here's the problem... > mozilla-gtk2 No running window found. > and nothing else happens. with firefox, it's even worse. i don't even get the error message. just nada. i suspect that it has something to do with fonts, because i added some font packages at the same time as i portupgraded mozilla (which was working previously). hoping that someone will spot the problem rather than having to uninstall and test each font package... > pkg_info | grep -i font XFree86-FontServer-4.3.0_3 XFree86-4 font server XFree86-font100dpi-4.3.0 XFree86-4 bitmap 100 dpi fonts XFree86-font75dpi-4.3.0 XFree86-4 bitmap 75 dpi fonts XFree86-fontCyrillic-4.3.0 XFree86-4 Cyrillic fonts XFree86-fontDefaultBitmaps-4.3.0 XFree86-4 default bitmap fonts XFree86-fontEncodings-4.3.0 XFree86-4 font encoding files XFree86-fontScalable-4.3.0 XFree86-4 scalable fonts Xft-2.1.2_1 A client-sided font API for X applications artwiz-fonts-1.0_1 A set of free fonts for X11 desktops bitstream-vera-1.10 Bitstream Vera TrueType font collection code2000-1.13 Shareware demo Unicode TrueType font fontconfig-2.2.90_4 An XML-based font configuration API for X Windows freefonts-0.10_2 A collection of ATM fonts (not all free) from the CICA arch freetype-1.3.1_2 A free and portable TrueType font rendering engine freetype2-2.1.5_2 A free and portable TrueType font rendering engine gucharmap-gnome-1.2.0_1 A Unicode/ISO10646 character map and font viewer lfpfonts-fix-0.82 Fixed width fonts from the Linux Font Project lfpfonts-var-0.83 Variable width fonts from the Linux Font Project linux-urw-fonts-2.0_1 Truetype fonts for use with Linux programs mkitalic-1.0 Perl script to make BDF font italic mplayer-fonts-0.50 A font pack for the mplayer OSD and SUB nexfontsel-3.0 A neXtaw based replacement for xfontsel nucleus-0.77_2 Another font package for X p5-type1inst-0.6.1 A script that helps install Postscript fonts in X Window Sy ppantsfonts-0.7 A set of small angular fonts sgifonts-1.0.1 Fonts from the SGI ProPack 1.4 for Linux sharefonts-0.10 A collection of shareware ATM fonts from the CICA archives terminus-font-4.00_1 Terminus Font - a clean fixed width font tkfont-1.1_2 A Tk based replacement for xfontsel ttmkfdir-0.0_1 Create fonts.scale file for use with TrueType font server urwfonts-1.0 Another font package for X urwfonts-ttf-1.0.7b18 Unicode TrueType from URW extended by Valek Filippov webfonts-0.21_1 TrueType core fonts for the Web mozilla doesn't seem to build with debugging support by default, so i'm going to try to rebuild it (yet again) and see if i can make anything of the gdb info. in the meantime, if anyone has a suggestion, i'm all ears. :) thanks! epi
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