Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade

[Micah]

Lars Cleary wrote:
> Micah wrote:
>>
>> I just updated my ports collection this morning and upgraded all out 
>> of date ports, including thunderbird and firefox.  Now typing 
>> thunderbird or firefox on the command line does absolutely nothing.  
>> firefox or thunderbird do not show up in ps (checked using ps -auwx | 
>> grep firefox).  No error messages are displayed.  The only clue is 
>> that the return code is 1.
>>
>> Sample session:
>> trisha% firefox
>> trisha% echo $?
>> 1
>> trisha%
>>
>> The only thing in /usr/ports/UPDATING on firefox is from 2004.
>>
>> I upgraded my ports by using the script generated by "portversion -c", 
>> which uses portupgrade and just lists the names of the ports on the 
>> line (eg portupgrade firefox thunderbird otherstuff).  This is on a 
>> 6.0-RELEASE-p6 system.
>>
>> uname -a
>> FreeBSD trisha.eidolonworld 6.0-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p6 #0: 
>> Thu Mar 23 19:38:49 PST 2006 
>> root at trisha.eidolonworld:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TRISHA  i386
>>
>> Any clues on what's wrong?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Micah
> Recently someone solved a problem with the same symptom by
> changing the ownership of the profiles of Firefox and Thunderbird,
> the were b0rked and couldnt' be read.
> 
> Maybe that helps.
> 
> Lars

Checking... All files in ~/.mozilla and its subs are owned by my user 
and my user's group and have rw (x for dirs) as a minimum for user (some 
have r and rw for group).  Likewise for ~/.thunderbird.  Using firefox 
-P test will bring up the profile manager and allow me to create a new 
profile, but the new profile is just as broken as the regular profile. 
Might be an extension....  I thought there was a way to bring up 
firefox/thunderbird in a "safemode" that disables all extensions, but a 
firefox --help shows no such flag.

Thanks,
Micah