www/linux-firefox filesystem crash issue

[Andrew P.]

On 12/5/05, Travis Poppe <tlp at liquidx.org> wrote:
> > Thanks, I'm aware of this. It seems that starting linux-firefox
> > out of your home directory (try "cd / && linux-firefox" for
> > example) makes the problem go away, but it's just a dirty
> > workaround.
> >
> > I'm working on this issue, but I haven't made much progress.
> > If you find out something, please let me know. You might
> > want to cc ports at .
>
> That worked. Thanks!
>
> Perhaps you could note this in the pkg-message?
>
> For now, I've simply created a script called 'firefox' that has the following
> in it:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> cd /
> linux-firefox $@
>
> This seems to work well.
> --
> Travis Poppe
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>

If I don't find a better solution within a few days, I'll
have to patch the startup script to "cd /". Thanks for
confirming.