Firefox 2.0.0.9 issues on 7.0-BETA3

Doug Poland doug at polands.org
Wed Nov 28 19:33:19 PST 2007


On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 07:11:44PM -0800, Mike Bowie wrote:
> Doug Poland wrote:
> >On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 02:29:38PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote:
> >  
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I have a freshly installed 7.0-BETA3 i386 system and am having issues
> >>with firefox 2.0.0.9.
> >>
> >>Upon launching /usr/local/bin/firefox from a command line I am
> >>immediately returned a cursor with an error code of 1.
> >>
> >>% /usr/local/bin/firefox
> >>% echo $?
> >>1
> >>
> >>I debugged both /usr/local/bin/firefox and
> >>/usr/local/lib/firefox/run-mozilla.sh until I found the debugger
> >>option, which I tried:
> >>
> >>/usr/local/lib/firefox/run-mozilla.sh -g
> >>/usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox-bin -d gdb
> >>
> >># /usr/local/lib/firefox/run-mozilla.sh -g \
> >>  /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox-bin -d gdb
> >>
> >>MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/local/lib/firefox
> >>  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/firefox:/usr/local/lib/firefox/plugins:/usr/local/lib/browser_plugins:/usr/local/lib/browser_linux_plugins:/usr/local/lib/firefox
> >>DISPLAY=:0.0
> >>DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/firefox:/usr/local/lib/firefox
> >>     LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/firefox:/usr/local/lib/firefox/components:/usr/local/lib/firefox
> >>       SHLIB_PATH=/usr/local/lib/firefox:/usr/local/lib/firefox
> >>          LIBPATH=/usr/local/lib/firefox:/usr/local/lib/firefox
> >>       ADDON_PATH=/usr/local/lib/firefox
> >>      MOZ_PROGRAM=/usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox-bin
> >>      MOZ_TOOLKIT=
> >>        moz_debug=1
> >>     moz_debugger=
> >>/usr/bin/gdb /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox-bin -x /tmp/mozargs.VoVJBX
> >>GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD]
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> >>details.
> >>This GDB was configured as "i386-marcel-freebsd"...(no debugging
> >>symbols found)...
> >>(gdb) run
> >>Starting program: /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox-bin -d gdb
> >>(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
> >>debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
> >>debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
> >>debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
> >>debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
> >>debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
> >>debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
> >>debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
> >>debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
> >>debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
> >>debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
> >>debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
> >>debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
> >>debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
> >>debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
> >>debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
> >>debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
> >>debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...[New LWP
> >>100191]
> >>(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
> >>debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
> >>debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
> >>debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
> >>debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
> >>debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...[New Thread
> >>0x29a01100 (LWP 100191)]
> >>(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
> >>debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
> >>debugging symbols found)...[New LWP 100191]
> >>
> >>Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap.
> >>[Switching to LWP 100191]
> >>Cannot remove breakpoints because program is no longer writable.
> >>It might be running in another process.
> >>Further execution is probably impossible.
> >>0x2805c3e0 in ?? () from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1
> >>
> >>I did some googling but nothing interesting turned up.  I find it
> >>curious that the latest build of Thunderbird works, but linux-firefox
> >>fails like it's native sibling.
> >>
> >>All help is appreciated...
> >>
> >>    
> >Thought I'd try installing firefox 2.0.0.10,1 on the whim that it may
> >fix my problem.  No joy.
> >
> >BTW, how do I get debugging symbols for firefox so that I may further
> >debug this?
> >
> >
> >  
> Doug,
> 
> I had a 7.0-BETA2 system on a laptop for a few days and recall having
> a similar sounding problem with both firefox and firefox-devel.  IIRC,
> it turned out to be a dependency which was somehow missed in my rather
> minimal installation.  It was a few weeks back and my brain is a bit
> full, but you might see if something is lacking in the results of a
> "ldd /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox-bin".
> 
Hi Mike,

Thanks for the tip.  Unfortunately, I don't see anything missing on that
ldd output.  I'll check it against another freebsd host that runs
firefox, maybe that'll shed some light on the subject.


-- 
Regards,
Doug


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