Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5

2009-07-18 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:57:57 -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 possible. At least, I don't think FF 3.x -> 3.y will have suc

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

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 mentio

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 fro

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 y

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 i

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 run

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/

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 > > /boot/kernel.OPT_K

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,

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 /boot

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.' a

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 > > /usr/s

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 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 u

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5

2009-07-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
Chad Perrin wrote: Do you know this from personal experience, or are you just assuming that I won't pull out all my hair five seconds after I discover it deleted a bunch of shit I wanted to keep? portupgrade -o www/firefox35 -f firefox-3.0.X worked for me, no problems. You'll have to reins

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5

2009-07-18 Thread perryh
> > So . . . how do I upgrade Firefox from 3.0 to 3.5 without > > running the risk of losing everything (bookmarks, a 100-tab > > session, et cetera)? > > Well, I don't think those settings get altered in any way - > they do not reside in the port's directories (where it will > be installed into).

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5

2009-07-17 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 17 July 2009 16:28:22 Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:07:36 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 01:43:47AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:48:37 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > > So . . . how do I upgrade Firefox from 3.0 to 3.5 withou

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5

2009-07-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 02:28:22AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:07:36 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > > Do you know this from personal experience, or are you just assuming that > > I won't pull out all my hair five seconds after I discover it deleted a > > bunch of shit I wan

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5

2009-07-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 18 July 2009 am 08:07:36 Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 01:43:47AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:48:37 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > So . . . how do I upgrade Firefox from 3.0 to 3.5 without > > > > No idea. Anyway, user's files won't be touched. > >

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5

2009-07-17 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:07:36 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 01:43:47AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:48:37 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > So . . . how do I upgrade Firefox from 3.0 to 3.5 without running the > > > risk of losing everything (bookmarks, a

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5

2009-07-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 01:43:47AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:48:37 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > So . . . how do I upgrade Firefox from 3.0 to 3.5 without running the > > risk of losing everything (bookmarks, a 100-tab session, et cetera)? > > Well, I don't think those se

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5

2009-07-17 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:48:37 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > So . . . how do I upgrade Firefox from 3.0 to 3.5 without running the > risk of losing everything (bookmarks, a 100-tab session, et cetera)? Well, I don't think those settings get altered in any way - they do not reside in the port's direc

upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5

2009-07-17 Thread Chad Perrin
So . . . how do I upgrade Firefox from 3.0 to 3.5 without running the risk of losing everything (bookmarks, a 100-tab session, et cetera)? For some reason, it seems that the upgrade has to be made by deleting 3.0 and installing 3.5 afterward. What's up with that? -- Chad Perrin [ original conte