Mozilla, no running window. Firefox, even less...

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Thursday 26 February 2004 09:52 pm, epilogue at allstream.net wrote:
> forgot to mention, i already tried a rebuild "WITHOUT_XFT=YES".  no dice.
>
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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

Have you tried deleting ~/.mozilla, logging out and logging back in? (Before 
you try this, you may wish to move the bookmark file to a safe place.)

Andrew Gould