ports/73053: firefox 1.0PR cannot save preferences or bookmarks, when compiled WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 13:53, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 05:36:29PM +0000, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > First, have you tried the suggestions in /usr/ports/UPDATING pertaining to
> > the Firefox 1.0.p update?  If so, there have been bugs reported to Firefox's
> 
> I have tried all of these suggestions with firefox 1.0PR, without success.
> 
> I have used some of these techniques with previous firefox releases to
> resolve the specific earlier issues described, however.
> 
> > Bugzilla that indicate this could be a permissions issue.  As root, try
> > 
> > # chown -R bms ~/.mozilla/firefox
> 
> All files and directories in the above were owned by bms when I ran 1.0PR.
> 
> > I'm guessing your user is bms.  If that doesn't work, checkout the list of
> > bugs pertaining to saving bookmarks in Firefox's Bugzilla.  I have a feeling
> > you're not alone in this, but thus far, I have not been able to reproduce.
> > 
> > Oh, and of course, make sure you're running Firefox 1.0.1.p_4.
> 
> I have reverted to 0.9.3 to avoid the regressions for the time being.
> 
> ktrace(8) did not reveal any system call errors (e.g EPERM, ENOSPC)
> during read()/write() around the time of bookmarking or preference
> save operations.
> 
> I have observed these problems with www/mozilla releases in the past
> when using WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS.

It's strange that you can reliably reproduce this, and I have not been
able to reproduce this once.  And, yes, I use OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS as well. 
There are some bugs filed against this, so hopefully this will be fixed
in the future.

Joe

> 
> BMS
-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
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