Firefox port problems

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 01:29:12 -0500, Fluffles.net <fluffles.net at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Hello Maintainer!
>
> I'm using Firefox 1.0.6 (firefox-1.0.6_1,1) on FreeBSD 5.4. Firefox
> crashes when i invoke the ProfileManager, using firefox
> -profilemanager or firefox -p. The error message is:
>
> (Gecko:67474): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_property_get(): length value has
> wrapped in calculation (did you pass G_MAXLONG?)
> Gecko: Fatal IO error 78 (Function not implemented) on X server :0.0.
>
> The first error happens also when i use only "firefox" (thus no
> profilemanager), so that shouldn't be the problem. It's the second
> error that causes the crash i think. It just exits after that error
> message.
>
> I tried deleting ~/.mozilla and recompiling, but the error stays. But
> after googling i discovered that the "SMB" option in "make config" was
> the problem. If compiled without the SMB option, the problem
> disappears.
>
> I think this is related to the FreeBSD port of firefox, so i'm
> reporting this to you.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Veronica
>
>
> P.S. Would it be nice to make a firefox-devel port to follow the
> alpha's, beta's and RC's of firefox?

We already have it, it's in MC.

http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ports/www/firefox-devel/

Cheers,
Mezz


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