firefox doesn't work on amd64

[A Dude]

Correction. I cannot get it to run without providing an argument.

Aaron

On 8/7/05, A Dude <adudek16 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I can second this. Firefox 1.06 doesn't run on AMD64.
> 
> adudek at cooljack: ~/ >uname -a
> FreeBSD cooljack.msdp.net 5.4-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p6 #3:
> Sat Jul 30 20:45:01 EDT 2005    
> root at cooljack.msdp.net:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/Cooljack  amd64
> 
> adudek at cooljack: /usr/ports/www/firefox/ >ls -la Makefile
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  9944 Jul 30 11:59 Makefile
> adudek at cooljack: /usr/ports/www/firefox/ >
> 
> Type firefox and it doesn't run but cores. I can provide if needed..
> Even weirder is that if I start firefox and provide a argument/url
> then it starts. If I provide no argument/url then it doesn't even
> load. I have even deleted exisiting ~/.mozilla.
> After further testing, it appears that you must run firefox as root
> first before it will run as anyother user. Why is this?
> Errors/messages seen on startup when providing a startup url
> adudek at cooljack: ~/.mozilla/firefox/bsw2tchf.default/ >firefox d
> 
> (firefox-bin:3268): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_property_get(): length value has
> wrapped
>  in calculation (did you pass G_MAXLONG?)
> 
> (firefox-bin:3268): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_property_get(): length value has
> wrapped
>  in calculation (did you pass G_MAXLONG?)
> *** loading the extensions datasource
> *** ExtensionManager:_updateManifests: no access privileges to application
> direc
> tory, skipping.
> 
> (firefox-bin:3268): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_property_get(): length value has
> wrapped
>  in calculation (did you pass G_MAXLONG?)
> *** loading the extensions datasource
> *** ExtensionManager:_updateManifests: no access privileges to application
> direc
> tory, skipping.
> 
> On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 19:07:00 -0400
> Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
> 
> > This is harmless, just ignore it.
> > 
> > Joe
> 	I would like to ignore it, but it doesn't start. I've just compiled
> it without patch-nsprpub-pr-include-md-_pth.h, and it works. Before
> compiling I've tried to remove ~/.moziila, but it didn't help. Can
> anyone see what's wrong with this patch? Thanx. :o)
>