Firefox won't start (again!)

[Chris]

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, cpghost wrote:

> On a RELENG_5 system from June 30th (source and ports),
> firefox-1.0.4 won't start. It just hangs in the kserel state.
> This is on a diskless system using NFS.
>
> Running truss(1) on the hanging firefox-bin process shows:
>
> kse_release(0x8065fa4) = 383 (0x17f)
> kse_release(0x8065fa4) = 0 (0x0)
> kse_release(0x8065fa4) = 383 (0x17f)
> kse_release(0x8065fa4) = 383 (0x17f)
> kse_release(0x8065fa4) = 0 (0x0)
> kse_release(0x8065fa4) = 383 (0x17f)
> kse_release(0x8065fa4) = 383 (0x17f)
> kse_release(0x8065fa4) = 0 (0x0)
> ...
>
> When starting, firefox generates a GNOME Warning:
>
> Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_property_get(): length value has wrapped in
> calculation (did you pass G_MAXLONG?)
>
> But thunderbird does the same, though it doesn't hang.
>
> /etc/libmap.conf is empty.
>
> Any idea?
>
> Thanks,
> -cpghost.
>

C'mon - we two can't be the only ones with this issue...

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# firefox
(firefox-bin:80350): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_property_get(): length value has 
wrappe
d in calculation (did you pass G_MAXLONG?)
The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)'.
   (Details: serial 1338 error_code 9 request_code 150 minor_code 4)
   (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
    that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
    To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
    option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() 
function.)
#

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Best regards,
Chris

When a broken appliance is demonstrated for the repairman,
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