Mozilla Firefox and firebird problems after sat 022604upgradeof FreeBSD-current

Don Lewis truckman at FreeBSD.org
Mon Mar 1 20:23:18 PST 2004


On  1 Mar, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> Why in the world are you going around recompiling ports and changing 
> dotfiles to find a lock-up?  Either X is having problems, or the kernel is 
> having problems.  Go to the _CONSOLE_ and execute the programs that are 
> "causing" the "lock-up" and you will stand a chance at actually finding and 
> fixing whatever is going wrong.
> 
> Ctrl-Alt-F1
> <login>
> DISPLAY=:0.0 firefox
> 
> (or whatever)

That's really a neat trick.  I think it deserves to be documented
somewhere.



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