Firefox on -current dumps core.

[Daniel Eischen]

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Wolfram Fenske wrote:

> Patrick Bowen <pbowen at fastmail.fm> writes:
>
>> Hello.
>>
>> I recently upgraded a Gateway MX6121 from 6.1 stable to -current,
>> following the canonical procedure in /usr/src/UPDATING, and now
>> whenever I try to start firefox, it dumps a core file (segmentation
>> fault). Firefox was compiled from source under 6.1.
>>
>> Should I have upgraded from 6.1 to -current, and /then/ start adding
>> ports, or does that matter?
>
> When I upgraded about two weeks ago, a lot of programs dumped core.
> Rebuilding fixed that.  I didn't have these problems when I upgraded
> before, not even from 6.0 to 7.0-current, just this last time.

Because there are libraries whose version have not been bumped
yet in 7.0.

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DE