Mozilla crash and burn?

[Peter Schultz]

Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 09:06:41 -0600
> Peter Schultz <pmes at bis.midco.net> wrote:
>
>> Can you do a completely clean install of FreeBSD?  I can't help but
> 
> 
> No, sorry, I can't do that. This would be against my philosophy...
> Please suggest this to Windows users, but not to people with an OS which
> allows to find the reason of a problem (see below).
> 

Then don't whine like a windows user!  ;-)

>>think you guys suffering from software degradation.  I was having a
>>terrible time with my system after the expat debacle, but have had
>>complete stability since starting fresh.
> 
> 
> find /usr/local /usr/X11R6 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 pkg_which -v | fgrep '?' | cut -f 1 -d :
> showed me some files which may be the cause of this (don't delete
> everything without a review, you would delete your configs in
> /usr/local/etc and /usr/X11R6/etc then).
> 
> It seems I had an old version of the freetype2 includes lying around in:
> /usr/X11R6/include/freetype2/freetype/
> 
> I removed the supoerflous files (after reviewing the file list and
> without losing my etc/ directories) and I'm rebuilding now...
> 

I'm just curious how this worked out for you.

Pete...