Need help --> Mozilla, no running window. Firefox, even less...

epilogue at allstream.net epilogue at allstream.net
Mon Mar 22 17:00:46 PST 2004


[belated follow-up]

so, i rebuilt a minimal version of mozilla _with debugging_ like so.

# make --WITH_DEBUG=yes --WITHOUT_XFT=yes --WITHOUT_MAILNEWS=yes
--WITHOUT_COMPOSER=yes --WITHOUT_LDAP=yes --WITHOUT_CHATZILLA=yes install

#rehash
# mozilla
No running window found.
# 

i don't haven't really used in depth gdb (i'm not a programmer), but i know
to 'gdb [program]' then 'run'.  here's what happens...

# gdb mozilla
GNU gdb 4.18 (FreeBSD)
Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you
are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-freebsd"...

"/usr/X11R6/bin/mozilla": not in executable format: File format not
recognized   <<<<-------- ?!?!

(gdb) run
Starting program:  
No executable file specified.   <<<<-------- naturally, given above...
Use the "file" or "exec-file" command.  <<<<------- hmmmm.
(gdb) file mozilla
"/usr/X11R6/bin/mozilla": not in executable format: File format not
recognized
(gdb) quit

i've also tried pkg_add -r, but that didn't work out any better.  same
'no window running' error message.

would anyone have an idea about how to get either mozilla or firefox
working?  (they've worked in the past.  i suspect a font related issue, but
don't know what to do to troubleshoot.)

for anyone who tries to help out, a really big THANKS.


cheers,
epi


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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 23:15:51 -0500
From: epilogue at allstream.net
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org, freebsd-mozilla at freebsd.org
Subject: Mozilla, no running window.  Firefox, even less...



I finished rebuilding firefox --WITH_DEBUG=YES.  Attached are 2 files
of the output I now get when I attempt to run the program (both a regular
user and as root).  Unfortunately, I don't really know what to make of the
messages.  If you do, please let me know.

Off to rebuild mozilla and capture same debug info...


Thanks,
Epi

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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 14:59:02 -0500
From: epilogue at allstream.net
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Mozilla, no running window.  Firefox, even less...


would anyone else have a suggestion?

thanks.

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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:48:55 -0500
From: epilogue at allstream.net
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Mozilla, no running window.  Firefox, even less...


hello all,

alas, i haven't yet found the solution via google or mozillazine.org. 
here's the problem...

> mozilla-gtk2 
No running window found.
>

and nothing else happens.  with firefox, it's even worse.  i don't even get
the error message.  just nada.

i suspect that it has something to do with fonts, because i added some font
packages at the same time as i portupgraded mozilla (which was working
previously).

hoping that someone will spot the problem rather than having to uninstall
and test each font package...

> pkg_info | grep -i font
XFree86-FontServer-4.3.0_3 XFree86-4 font server
XFree86-font100dpi-4.3.0 XFree86-4 bitmap 100 dpi fonts
XFree86-font75dpi-4.3.0 XFree86-4 bitmap 75 dpi fonts
XFree86-fontCyrillic-4.3.0 XFree86-4 Cyrillic fonts
XFree86-fontDefaultBitmaps-4.3.0 XFree86-4 default bitmap fonts
XFree86-fontEncodings-4.3.0 XFree86-4 font encoding files
XFree86-fontScalable-4.3.0 XFree86-4 scalable fonts
Xft-2.1.2_1         A client-sided font API for X applications
artwiz-fonts-1.0_1  A set of free fonts for X11 desktops
bitstream-vera-1.10 Bitstream Vera TrueType font collection
code2000-1.13       Shareware demo Unicode TrueType font
fontconfig-2.2.90_4 An XML-based font configuration API for X Windows
freefonts-0.10_2    A collection of ATM fonts (not all free) from the CICA
arch freetype-1.3.1_2    A free and portable TrueType font rendering engine
freetype2-2.1.5_2   A free and portable TrueType font rendering engine
gucharmap-gnome-1.2.0_1 A Unicode/ISO10646 character map and font viewer
lfpfonts-fix-0.82   Fixed width fonts from the Linux Font Project
lfpfonts-var-0.83   Variable width fonts from the Linux Font Project
linux-urw-fonts-2.0_1 Truetype fonts for use with Linux programs
mkitalic-1.0        Perl script to make BDF font italic
mplayer-fonts-0.50  A font pack for the mplayer OSD and SUB
nexfontsel-3.0      A neXtaw based replacement for xfontsel
nucleus-0.77_2      Another font package for X
p5-type1inst-0.6.1  A script that helps install Postscript fonts in X
Window Sy ppantsfonts-0.7     A set of small angular fonts
sgifonts-1.0.1      Fonts from the SGI ProPack 1.4 for Linux
sharefonts-0.10     A collection of shareware ATM fonts from the CICA
archives terminus-font-4.00_1 Terminus Font - a clean fixed width font
tkfont-1.1_2        A Tk based replacement for xfontsel
ttmkfdir-0.0_1      Create fonts.scale file for use with TrueType font
server urwfonts-1.0        Another font package for X
urwfonts-ttf-1.0.7b18 Unicode TrueType from URW extended by Valek Filippov
webfonts-0.21_1     TrueType core fonts for the Web

mozilla doesn't seem to build with debugging support by default, so i'm
going to try to rebuild it (yet again) and see if i can make anything of
the gdb info.

in the meantime, if anyone has a suggestion, i'm all ears.   :)


thanks!
epi

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