Firefox on -current dumps core.

[Wolfram Fenske]

Daniel Eischen <deischen at freebsd.org> writes:

> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Wolfram Fenske wrote:
>
>> Patrick Bowen <pbowen at fastmail.fm> writes:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> 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.

I didn't mean to criticize.  After all, this is -current.  But thanks
for the explanation.


Wolfram

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