Mozilla crash and burn?

[Jason Andresen]

Russell D. Murphy Jr. wrote:

> Mozilla has been non-functional since I updated my machine on Friday.
> 
>    FreeBSD knock.econ.vt.edu 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #0: 
>       Fri Mar 19 05:13:08 EST 2004     
>       root at knock.econ.vt.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KNOCK  i386
> 
> I've rebuilt mozilla (portupgrade -fRr mozilla), gotten rid of all
> plugins and it still dies. 
> 
> The symptom is that it starts and opens up the initial window (a
> collection of bookmarks - a local file).  If I click on one of the
> links, the title is displayed in the window frame, the URL is
> displayed in the address box, and mozilla claims to be "transferring
> data from ...".  Then mozilla crashes.  No window, no remaining
> process.
> 
> Any ideas?

I was having trouble with Mozilla too.  It kept exiting on signal 11s 
when I booted it.  Turns out the font libraries (fontconfig, Xft, 
freetype2) were out of sync and recompiling them fixed the problem.

I found the problem by installing firefox (which worked until I tried to 
change the font, then *boom* signal 11).

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