Firefox 2.0.0.4/Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 do not install on FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT/amd64 UP

O. Hartmann ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de
Wed Jul 18 18:35:50 UTC 2007


Manfred Antar wrote:
> At 08:06 AM 7/17/2007, you wrote:
>   
>> A week ago I did a buildworld and after rebooting I tried to start either Firefox 2.0.04 and Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 as they are both standard applications of my daily work. Both applications did not start, via top(1) I recognized on both clients a "STATE  ucond".
>> Well, I thought this could be due to a newer kernel and userland so I simply recompiled both Firefox and Thunderbird - with no success. Both installation processes get stuck in "===>> Building chrome's registry ... " and never come back.
>>
>> I do have two other boxes running FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT, one i386 SMP and another amd64 SMP and on both neither Firefox 2.0.0.4 nor Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 show that weird 'ucond' STATE in top(). I never dared recompiling both applications so i can not say whether the problem is related to the one box (UP).
>>
>> Does anyone have recognized this problem? How to fix it? Without having the specific port installed, how can I rebuild every dependency? If the port is already installed, someone simply need to type 'portupgrade -vrRf port", but is there any 'make' equivalent in the native ports-directory?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Oliver
>>     
>
> Hi I had the same problem on a i386 up machine.
> I just tried it again and it worked.
> I changed the config options:
> cd /usr/ports/www/firefox
> make config
> I had  OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS checked and i changed that to unchecked and it built and installed fine.
> Manfred
>   

I regret, not to me ...
Tried to compile several stuff around with the OS native CFLAGS 
settings, but without success. If this means I need to recompile every 
port due to the problem I can't compile all firefox-relevant ports 
automaticaaly, this evolves towards a severe problem :-(

Regrads
Oliver


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