upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5 -- now that it's installed, it won't run

[Chad Perrin]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 07:53:58PM +0200, Frank Steinborn wrote:
> Chad Perrin wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 07:48:27PM +0200, Frank Steinborn wrote:
> > > 
> > > Now this is strange... it should be available. See the sem(4) manpage.
> > > No idea how to help from this point except to advice you to rebuild
> > > your kernel and see if the module becomes available. It is definitely
> > > needed for running Firefox 3.5.
> > 
> > Isn't there some way to get it using CVS or Subversion?  I can't imagine
> > how a standard module would just be *missing*.
> 
> Me neither. You can do the following:
> 
> cd /usr/src/sys/modules/sem && make install clean

Actually, right after that last email of mine, I tracked down sem in src,
and built it.  Then:

    # kldload sem

    # kldstat -v|grep sem.ko
    14    1 0xc621c000 4000     sem.ko

    > firefox3
    Fatal error 'Recurse on a private mutex.' at line 986 in file
    /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_mutex.c (errno = 2)
    Abort trap

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immediately after you are fired the person assigned to maintaining your
code after you leave will resign"
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