Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade
Wee-Sern Soo wrote: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.0.1.html#issues It's a known issue. Need to run as privileged user on all platforms, the first time. Yuan Jue wrote the following on 31/03/2006 4:46 PM: On Friday 31 March 2006 09:18, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: This happened to me also, until I remembered this has happened before and what to try. Login as root, start the GUI (mine is KDE), open a terminal program and start firefox from there. After that, I had no problems. It's working fine. works for me too. many thanks :) A workaround that the port could use is given on that page If Firefox 1.5.0.1 is installed on a multi-user system in a location which is not writable by users, Firefox must be run once by a privileged user. If this is not desirable, an empty file must be created in the following directory: install-directory/extensions/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/chrome.manifest Later, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade
On 3/31/06, Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wee-Sern Soo wrote: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.0.1.html#issues It's a known issue. Need to run as privileged user on all platforms, the first time. Yuan Jue wrote the following on 31/03/2006 4:46 PM: On Friday 31 March 2006 09:18, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: This happened to me also, until I remembered this has happened before and what to try. Login as root, start the GUI (mine is KDE), open a terminal program and start firefox from there. After that, I had no problems. It's working fine. works for me too. many thanks :) A workaround that the port could use is given on that page If Firefox 1.5.0.1 is installed on a multi-user system in a location which is not writable by users, Firefox must be run once by a privileged user. If this is not desirable, an empty file must be created in the following directory: install-directory/extensions/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/chrome.manifest This sort of bizzare need to elevate general awareness and spiritual enlightenment in the browser using public is what drove me away from winders in the first place. I am not ranting against FreeBSD here. mozilla/firefox/netscape need to pull their collective heads out and build something that browses an interweb, not a file-installing-platform for your base system. -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade
I just updated my ports collection this morning and upgraded all out of date ports, including thunderbird and firefox. Now typing thunderbird or firefox on the command line does absolutely nothing. firefox or thunderbird do not show up in ps (checked using ps -auwx | grep firefox). No error messages are displayed. The only clue is that the return code is 1. Sample session: trisha% firefox trisha% echo $? 1 trisha% The only thing in /usr/ports/UPDATING on firefox is from 2004. I upgraded my ports by using the script generated by portversion -c, which uses portupgrade and just lists the names of the ports on the line (eg portupgrade firefox thunderbird otherstuff). This is on a 6.0-RELEASE-p6 system. uname -a FreeBSD trisha.eidolonworld 6.0-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p6 #0: Thu Mar 23 19:38:49 PST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TRISHA i386 Any clues on what's wrong? Thanks, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade
Micah wrote: I just updated my ports collection this morning and upgraded all out of date ports, including thunderbird and firefox. Now typing thunderbird or firefox on the command line does absolutely nothing. firefox or thunderbird do not show up in ps (checked using ps -auwx | grep firefox). No error messages are displayed. The only clue is that the return code is 1. Sample session: trisha% firefox trisha% echo $? 1 trisha% The only thing in /usr/ports/UPDATING on firefox is from 2004. I upgraded my ports by using the script generated by portversion -c, which uses portupgrade and just lists the names of the ports on the line (eg portupgrade firefox thunderbird otherstuff). This is on a 6.0-RELEASE-p6 system. uname -a FreeBSD trisha.eidolonworld 6.0-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p6 #0: Thu Mar 23 19:38:49 PST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TRISHA i386 Any clues on what's wrong? Thanks, Micah Recently someone solved a problem with the same symptom by changing the ownership of the profiles of Firefox and Thunderbird, the were b0rked and couldnt' be read. Maybe that helps. Lars ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade
Lars Cleary wrote: Micah wrote: I just updated my ports collection this morning and upgraded all out of date ports, including thunderbird and firefox. Now typing thunderbird or firefox on the command line does absolutely nothing. firefox or thunderbird do not show up in ps (checked using ps -auwx | grep firefox). No error messages are displayed. The only clue is that the return code is 1. Sample session: trisha% firefox trisha% echo $? 1 trisha% The only thing in /usr/ports/UPDATING on firefox is from 2004. I upgraded my ports by using the script generated by portversion -c, which uses portupgrade and just lists the names of the ports on the line (eg portupgrade firefox thunderbird otherstuff). This is on a 6.0-RELEASE-p6 system. uname -a FreeBSD trisha.eidolonworld 6.0-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p6 #0: Thu Mar 23 19:38:49 PST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TRISHA i386 Any clues on what's wrong? Thanks, Micah Recently someone solved a problem with the same symptom by changing the ownership of the profiles of Firefox and Thunderbird, the were b0rked and couldnt' be read. Maybe that helps. Lars Checking... All files in ~/.mozilla and its subs are owned by my user and my user's group and have rw (x for dirs) as a minimum for user (some have r and rw for group). Likewise for ~/.thunderbird. Using firefox -P test will bring up the profile manager and allow me to create a new profile, but the new profile is just as broken as the regular profile. Might be an extension I thought there was a way to bring up firefox/thunderbird in a safemode that disables all extensions, but a firefox --help shows no such flag. Thanks, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade
Micah writes: I confirm the problem. (The thunderbird compile finished ~10 minutes ago.) Checking... All files in ~/.mozilla and its subs are owned by my user and my user's group and have rw (x for dirs) as a minimum for user (some have r and rw for group). Likewise for ~/.thunderbird. Check. Using firefox -P test will bring up the profile manager and allow me to create a new profile, but the new profile is just as broken as the regular profile. Check. System: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Mon Mar 13 09:23:39 EST 2006 Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade
On 3/30/06, Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lars Cleary wrote: Micah wrote: I just updated my ports collection this morning and upgraded all out of date ports, including thunderbird and firefox. Now typing thunderbird or firefox on the command line does absolutely nothing. Recently someone solved a problem with the same symptom by changing the ownership of the profiles of Firefox and Thunderbird, the were b0rked and couldnt' be read. Checking... All files in ~/.mozilla and its subs are owned by my user and my user's group and have rw (x for dirs) as a minimum for user (some have r and rw for group). Likewise for ~/.thunderbird. might try mv .mozilla .moz-backup and then try starting it again. The slightly more painful operation might be to upgrade the whole dependancy tree under firefox/t-b. I think this would be: portupgrade -ufR firefox* or summat (I'm fairly certain from the original post that you've portupgrade installed). Note that 1.5.0.1 works as advertised here, and I don't use dunndarbrydde. -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/30/06, Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lars Cleary wrote: Micah wrote: I just updated my ports collection this morning and upgraded all out of date ports, including thunderbird and firefox. Now typing thunderbird or firefox on the command line does absolutely nothing. Recently someone solved a problem with the same symptom by changing the ownership of the profiles of Firefox and Thunderbird, the were b0rked and couldnt' be read. Checking... All files in ~/.mozilla and its subs are owned by my user and my user's group and have rw (x for dirs) as a minimum for user (some have r and rw for group). Likewise for ~/.thunderbird. might try mv .mozilla .moz-backup and then try starting it again. Tried that. The slightly more painful operation might be to upgrade the whole dependancy tree under firefox/t-b. I think this would be: portupgrade -ufR firefox* or summat (I'm fairly certain from the original post that you've portupgrade installed). Was about to try that (see below) Note that 1.5.0.1 works as advertised here, and I don't use dunndarbrydde. 1.5.0.1_2 was commited last night, so it's probably a recent breakage. I just found a bug report on it at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=95100 So we have four confirmed cases of firefox not working. Thanks, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade
Le 30/03/2006 à 14:42:10-0800, Micah a écrit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1.5.0.1_2 was commited last night, so it's probably a recent breakage. I just found a bug report on it at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=95100 So we have four confirmed cases of firefox not working. five...but not for firefox...for thunderbird (well I don't use it at all...;-) ) Same problem when I try to laucnh thunderbird, nothing append, no error.. Regards. using : FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) U.F.R. de Mathematiques. Heure local/Local time: Fri Mar 31 01:51:25 CEST 2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade
On Thursday 30 March 2006 17:53, Albert Shih wrote: Le 30/03/2006 à 14:42:10-0800, Micah a écrit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1.5.0.1_2 was commited last night, so it's probably a recent breakage. I just found a bug report on it at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=95100 So we have four confirmed cases of firefox not working. five...but not for firefox...for thunderbird (well I don't use it at all...;-) ) Same problem when I try to laucnh thunderbird, nothing append, no error.. Regards. using : FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) U.F.R. de Mathematiques. Heure local/Local time: Fri Mar 31 01:51:25 CEST 2006 ___ This happened to me also, until I remembered this has happened before and what to try. Login as root, start the GUI (mine is KDE), open a terminal program and start firefox from there. After that, I had no problems. It's working fine. Don ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade
Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Thursday 30 March 2006 17:53, Albert Shih wrote: Le 30/03/2006 à 14:42:10-0800, Micah a écrit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1.5.0.1_2 was commited last night, so it's probably a recent breakage. I just found a bug report on it at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=95100 So we have four confirmed cases of firefox not working. five...but not for firefox...for thunderbird (well I don't use it at all...;-) ) Same problem when I try to laucnh thunderbird, nothing append, no error.. Regards. using : FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE This happened to me also, until I remembered this has happened before and what to try. Login as root, start the GUI (mine is KDE), open a terminal program and start firefox from there. After that, I had no problems. It's working fine. Surprisingly, this worked perfectly for me with FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE, although I didn't take the time to figure out why. I didn't even restart the GUI, I just ran Firefox and Thunderbird from a xterm window as root, and then exited them. All fixed. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade
Pete Slagle writes: This happened to me also, until I remembered this has happened before and what to try. Login as root, start the GUI (mine is KDE), open a terminal program and start firefox from there. After that, I had no problems. It's working fine. Surprisingly, this worked perfectly for me with FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE, although I didn't take the time to figure out why. Also worked with -CURRENT. However: When run as non-root user, I got this: (Gecko:35634): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Deprecated function. User modifications to the MIME database are no longer supported. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade
Pete Slagle wrote: Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Thursday 30 March 2006 17:53, Albert Shih wrote: Le 30/03/2006 à 14:42:10-0800, Micah a écrit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1.5.0.1_2 was commited last night, so it's probably a recent breakage. I just found a bug report on it at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=95100 So we have four confirmed cases of firefox not working. five...but not for firefox...for thunderbird (well I don't use it at all...;-) ) Same problem when I try to laucnh thunderbird, nothing append, no error.. Regards. using : FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE This happened to me also, until I remembered this has happened before and what to try. Login as root, start the GUI (mine is KDE), open a terminal program and start firefox from there. After that, I had no problems. It's working fine. Surprisingly, this worked perfectly for me with FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE, although I didn't take the time to figure out why. I didn't even restart the GUI, I just ran Firefox and Thunderbird from a xterm window as root, and then exited them. All fixed. I remember this being the Linux way to install the mozilla suite. Install, run as root first, then run as user. I never had to do that in FreeBSD. I'll try it as soon as I get back. - Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade
On Friday 31 March 2006 09:18, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: This happened to me also, until I remembered this has happened before and what to try. Login as root, start the GUI (mine is KDE), open a terminal program and start firefox from there. After that, I had no problems. It's working fine. works for me too. many thanks :) -- Best Regards Yuan Jue @ www.yuanjue.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.0.1.html#issues It's a known issue. Need to run as privileged user on all platforms, the first time. Yuan Jue wrote the following on 31/03/2006 4:46 PM: On Friday 31 March 2006 09:18, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: This happened to me also, until I remembered this has happened before and what to try. Login as root, start the GUI (mine is KDE), open a terminal program and start firefox from there. After that, I had no problems. It's working fine. works for me too. many thanks :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade
Okay - I'm pretty close to newbie status, but could this be a needed rehash? G/ -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.3/298 - Release Date: 3/30/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade
On Friday 31 March 2006 13:52, you wrote: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.0.1.html#issues It's a known issue. Need to run as privileged user on all platforms, the first time. got it. thanks again :) Yuan Jue wrote the following on 31/03/2006 4:46 PM: On Friday 31 March 2006 09:18, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: This happened to me also, until I remembered this has happened before and what to try. Login as root, start the GUI (mine is KDE), open a terminal program and start firefox from there. After that, I had no problems. It's working fine. works for me too. many thanks :) -- Best Regards Yuan Jue @ www.yuanjue.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade
On Friday 31 March 2006 14:02, Graham North wrote: Okay - I'm pretty close to newbie status, but could this be a needed rehash? sorry, but what is your point? -- Best Regards Yuan Jue @ www.yuanjue.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade
As said, I am pretty new to unix but is the rehash command not used for reorganized the userland directory iindexes after program upgrades? G/ Yuan Jue wrote: On Friday 31 March 2006 14:02, Graham North wrote: Okay - I'm pretty close to newbie status, but could this be a needed rehash? sorry, but what is your point? -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.3/298 - Release Date: 3/30/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade
On Friday 31 March 2006 14:20, Graham North wrote: As said, I am pretty new to unix but is the rehash command not used for reorganized the userland directory iindexes after program upgrades? if what you mean is why firefox cannot start after upgrade, then this is maybe a mozilla known problem. what you should do is su change to root and start firefox there and then everything will be fine Or, maybe you should make your question more clear ;) -- Best Regards Yuan Jue @ www.yuanjue.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade
Hi Yuan: I did not pose a question. My suggestion to do a rehash was in response to someone else having trouble after upgrading Firefox. It may or may not have been a great suggestion but that is all it was. If you have a good understanding of that command and why it may or may not be appropriate then I would be open ears. One of my friends who runs Debian tells me that he finds it necessary after doing software upgrades - yes I know that is a different OS. But sincerely, if you or someone else on this list has a good understanding of its function please enlighten, I love to learn. Thanks, Graham/ Yuan Jue wrote: On Friday 31 March 2006 14:20, Graham North wrote: As said, I am pretty new to unix but is the rehash command not used for reorganized the userland directory iindexes after program upgrades? if what you mean is why firefox cannot start after upgrade, then this is maybe a mozilla known problem. what you should do is su change to root and start firefox there and then everything will be fine Or, maybe you should make your question more clear ;) -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.3/298 - Release Date: 3/30/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
