Installing firefox 3.5 on FreeBSD fails
Stijn Bouwhuis
stijn.bouwhuis at gmail.com
Tue Aug 11 10:41:49 UTC 2009
A ports installation of firefox35 leads to the application crashing on
a freshly installed machine running xfce 4.4.2. The standards tabs
open, the status bar mentions "Transferring data from [website]" and
after about 3 seconds, the application crashes. In addition, firefox
is not listed as a browser among the xfce preferred applications, the
list that is automatically generated based on installed applications.
madrid# /usr/local/bin/firefox3
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
/root/.mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so [/root/.mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so:
unsupported file layout]
Bad system call (core dumped)
madrid# uname -a
FreeBSD madrid.hobury.com 7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan
1 08:58:24 UTC 2009
root at driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
madrid# cd /usr/ports/www/firefox35
madrid# ll
total 79150
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4120 Aug 5 01:11 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 222 Aug 5 01:11 distinfo
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1536 Aug 11 05:45 files
-rw------- 1 root wheel 80969728 Aug 11 08:17 firefox-bin.core
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 329 Jun 30 21:27 pkg-descr
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1536 Jul 7 12:56 pkg-message
madrid#
Also after the following:
cd /usr/ports/www/firefox35
make deinstall
make reinstall
the result is:
madrid# /usr/local/bin/firefox3
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
/root/.mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so [/root/.mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so:
unsupported file layout]
Bad system call (core dumped)
Firefox2 works as designed and can be installed via ports.
More information about the freebsd-gecko
mailing list