Mozilla Firefox and firebird problems after sat 022604 upgrade ofFreeBSD-current

Michael Clark mikeal-list at infinithost.com
Sun Feb 29 13:35:01 PST 2004


I just tried XMMS with the same results as you.

On Feb 29, 2004, at 1:40 PM, Aaron Peterson wrote:

>> Every time I run either firebird or firefox, my whole computer locks 
>> up
>> and i am forced to use the power button to reset it.
>> This all worked fine before I cvsup'd and upgraded yesterday, from the
>> previous weekends -current code.
>>
>> I did a portupgrade -Rrupf gettext to try and correct the libintl.so.5
>> error, but it still exist for some applications unless i symlink
>> libintl.so.6 to libintl.so.5
>>
>> Firebird/Firefox no longer ask for .so.5 even without the sym link.
>>
>> other applications using the .so.5 lib work fine, including xchat
>>
>> any help greatly appreciated
>>
>> Mikeal Clark
>> Infinithost LLC
>> CompTIA A+, MCP
>> www.infinithost.com
>
> I'm having exactly the same problem with the regular mozilla port, and
> last time i started xmms it also caused a complete freeze.  I couldn't
> ping the machine or get a remote shell with ssh.  It's difficult to see
> what causes the freeze too, when it locks hard enough that rebooting is
> your only recourse.  I'm in the middle of portupgrade -farR, but don't
> know if that will help...
>
> i cvsupped and rebuilt world/kernel about two days ago to 
> 5.2.1-CURRENT.
>
> Aaron
>
>
Mikeal Clark
Infinithost LLC
CompTIA A+, MCP
www.infinithost.com



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