Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade

[Donald J. O'Neill]

On Thursday 30 March 2006 17:53, Albert Shih wrote:
>  Le 30/03/2006 à 14:42:10-0800, Micah a écrit
>
> > illoai at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > 1.5.0.1_2 was commited last night, so it's probably a recent
> > breakage. I just found a bug report on it at
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=95100
> > So we have four confirmed cases of firefox not working.
>
> five...but not for firefox...for thunderbird (well I don't use it at
> all...;-) )
>
> Same problem when I try to laucnh thunderbird, nothing append, no
> error..
>
> Regards.
>
> using : FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE
>
> --
> Albert SHIH
> Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT)
> U.F.R. de Mathematiques.
> Heure local/Local time:
> Fri Mar 31 01:51:25 CEST 2006
> _______________________________________________

This happened to me also, until I remembered this has happened before 
and what to try. 

Login as root, start the GUI (mine is KDE), open a terminal program and 
start firefox from there. After that, I had no problems. It's working 
fine.

Don