Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5 -- now that it's installed, it won't run

2009-07-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:57:57AM -0700, per...@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

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5 -- now that it's installed, it won't run

2009-07-18 Thread Frank Steinborn
Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:57:57AM -0700, per...@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.

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5 -- now that it's installed, it won't run

2009-07-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 07:02:01PM +0200, Frank Steinborn wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: 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

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5 -- now that it's installed, it won't run

2009-07-18 Thread Frank Steinborn
Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 07:02:01PM +0200, Frank Steinborn wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: 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

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5 -- now that it's installed, it won't run

2009-07-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 07:17:53PM +0200, Frank Steinborn wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: Okay -- where do I get the sem kernel module? It is included in FreeBSD, just type 'kldload sem' to load it. If you want to have loaded it automatically on boot, add the following to your

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5 -- now that it's installed, it won't run

2009-07-18 Thread Frank Steinborn
Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 07:17:53PM +0200, Frank Steinborn wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: Okay -- where do I get the sem kernel module? It is included in FreeBSD, just type 'kldload sem' to load it. If you want to have loaded it automatically on boot, add the

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5 -- now that it's installed, it won't run

2009-07-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 07:28:41PM +0200, Frank Steinborn wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: # kldload sem kldload: can't load sem: No such file or directory # locate sem.ko /boot/kernel/sysvsem.ko /boot/kernel.GENERIC/sysvsem.ko

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5 -- now that it's installed, it won't run

2009-07-18 Thread Frank Steinborn
Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 07:28:41PM +0200, Frank Steinborn wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: # kldload sem kldload: can't load sem: No such file or directory # locate sem.ko /boot/kernel/sysvsem.ko /boot/kernel.GENERIC/sysvsem.ko

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5 -- now that it's installed, it won't run

2009-07-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 07:48:27PM +0200, Frank Steinborn wrote: Now this is strange... it should be available. See the sem(4) manpage. No idea how to help from this point except to advice you to rebuild your kernel and see if the module becomes available. It is definitely needed for running

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5 -- now that it's installed, it won't run

2009-07-18 Thread Frank Steinborn
Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 07:48:27PM +0200, Frank Steinborn wrote: Now this is strange... it should be available. See the sem(4) manpage. No idea how to help from this point except to advice you to rebuild your kernel and see if the module becomes available. It is

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5 -- now that it's installed, it won't run

2009-07-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 07:53:58PM +0200, Frank Steinborn wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 07:48:27PM +0200, Frank Steinborn wrote: Now this is strange... it should be available. See the sem(4) manpage. No idea how to help from this point except to advice you to

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5 -- now that it's installed, it won't run

2009-07-18 Thread Frank Steinborn
Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 07:53:58PM +0200, Frank Steinborn wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 07:48:27PM +0200, Frank Steinborn wrote: Now this is strange... it should be available. See the sem(4) manpage. No idea how to help from this point

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5 -- now that it's installed, it won't run

2009-07-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 08:06:58PM +0200, Frank Steinborn wrote: Ok, now this seems to be a problem with libpthread-stuff. The problem only exists in 6.x. Sorry that I did not mention that earlier, but it just crossed my mind right now... However, someone is working at it. He also mentions

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5 -- now that it's installed, it won't run

2009-07-18 Thread Frank Steinborn
Chad Perrin wrote: I seem to have unsubscribed from freebsd-ports@ a while ago, so I can't just respond in-thread to the www/firefox35 coredumps discussion there. Would it be better for me to start a new thread on freebsd-ports@ rather than continue discussing it here? I would recommend