firefox[2,3] will not start after recent ports upgrade

[Garrett Cooper]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Daniel Roethlisberger <daniel at roe.ch> wrote:
> Alexander Konovalenko <kono at kth.se> 2009-02-01:
>> > From: Daniel Roethlisberger <daniel at roe.ch>
>> >...
>> > Could it be the case that firefox-bin hangs in umtxn state?
>>
>> you're right!
>>
>> > (Check using ps -laux instead of -aux)
>> > >
>> > > http://daemon.nanophys.kth.se/~kono/ktrace_ff2.txt
>> > > http://daemon.nanophys.kth.se/~kono/ktrace_ff3.txt
>> >
>> > These trace the wrong process: the wrapper shell script (sh).
>> > The actual hanging process would be firefox-bin, not sh.  Try
>> > ktracing with child processes (-i).
>>
>> "ktrace -i" showed last line:
>>   firefox-bin CALL  _umtx_op(0x65f8e0,0x8,0x1,0x65f8c0,0)
>>
>> http://daemon.nanophys.kth.se/~kono/ktrace_ff3_ktrace-i.txt
>>
>> Do you know which port/lib causing this hang on _umtx_op?
>
> Unfortunately, no.  I have a box with ports tree from around
> mid-January on which I was unable to fix this problem.  Native
> firefox 2 and 3 hung in umtxn state.  So I did pkg_delete -a, rm
> -rf /usr/local, rebuilt and installed all ports: now the firefox3
> build hangs in umtxn state while running a tool called shlibsign.
> No idea how to fix this.  I don't want to update the ports tree
> to after the unpretty xorg-7.4 changes just yet.
>
> I suspect the problem may be related to upgrading using
> freebsd-update from 7.0 to 7.1, but that's just a wild guess
> based on the problem appearing after the upgrade; I did make sure
> no old leftover libraries or binaries were still lying around.

    Have you read UPDATING yet about the libxcb upgrade?
Cheers,
-Garrett