pkg upgrade firefox hoses mate

[Arthur Chance]

On 20/12/2018 15:06, Scott Ballantyne wrote:
> Good morning all,
> This is on a 10.4-release-p9 freebsd system.

10.4 hit end of life at the end of October so there's no guarantee any
port will work with it. You need to upgrade to 11 or 12.

> Summary: using pkg upgrade on firefox results in
> a non-working firefox and the inabilit to login. A most
> unfortunate side effect of pkg upgrade :(
> 
> Details:
> 
> Firexfox told me that it was badly out of date, so I did
> pkg update
> pkg upgrade firefox
> 
> firefox then failed to run (unresolved symbols). Thinking a reboot
> would help, I rebooted (without writing down the missing syms unfortunately)
> and now my mate session will not start
> 
> the messages file shows:
> Dec 20 09:29:15 gigawattmomma gnome-keyring-daemon[1122]: The PKCS#11
> component was already initialized
> Dec 20 09:29:15 gigawattmomma gnome-keyring-daemon[1122]: The Secret
> Service was already initialized
> Dec 20 09:29:16 gigawattmomma gnome-keyring-daemon[1122]: The SSH agent was
> already initialized
> Dec 20 09:29:16 gigawattmomma dbus[741]: [system] Activating service
> name='org.freedesktop.UPower' (using servicehelper)
> Dec 20 09:29:16 gigawattmomma dbus[741]: [system] Successfully activated
> service 'org.freedesktop.UPower'
> Dec 20 09:29:17 gigawattmomma pulseaudio[1174]: [(null)] pid.c: Daemon
> already running.
> Dec 20 09:29:18 gigawattmomma dbus[741]: [system] Activating service
> name='org.mate.SettingsDaemon.DateTimeMechanism' (using servicehelper)
> Dec 20 09:29:18 gigawattmomma dbus[741]: [system] Successfully activated
> service 'org.mate.SettingsDaemon.DateTimeMechanism'
> Dec 20 09:29:20 gigawattmomma console-kit-daemon[997]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv
> failed:
> Dec 20 09:29:41 gigawattmomma last message repeated 16 times
> Dec 20 09:29:41 gigawattmomma mate-session[1108]: WARNING: Child process
> 1609 was already dead.
> Dec 20 09:29:42 gigawattmomma console-kit-daemon[997]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv
> failed:
> Dec 20 09:29:48 gigawattmomma last message repeated 6 times
> Dec 20 09:29:49 gigawattmomma dbus[741]: [system] Activating service
> name='org.mate.SettingsDaemon.DateTimeMechanism' (using servicehelper)
> Dec 20 09:29:49 gigawattmomma dbus[741]: [system] Successfully activated
> service 'org.mate.SettingsDaemon.DateTimeMechanism'
> Dec 20 09:29:50 gigawattmomma console-kit-daemon[997]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv
> failed:
> Dec 20 09:30:18 gigawattmomma last message repeated 35 times
> Dec 20 09:30:20 gigawattmomma dbus[741]: [system] Activating service
> name='org.mate.SettingsDaemon.DateTimeMechanism' (using servicehelper)
> Dec 20 09:30:20 gigawattmomma dbus[741]: [system] Successfully activated
> service 'org.mate.SettingsDaemon.DateTimeMechanism'
> Dec 20 09:30:21 gigawattmomma console-kit-daemon[997]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv
> failed:
> Dec 20 09:30:47 gigawattmomma last message repeated 29 times
> Dec 20 09:30:51 gigawattmomma dbus[741]: [system] Activating service
> name='org.mate.SettingsDaemon.DateTimeMechanism' (using servicehelper)
> Dec 20 09:30:51 gigawattmomma dbus[741]: [system] Successfully activated
> service 'org.mate.SettingsDaemon.DateTimeMechanism'
> Dec 20 09:30:51 gigawattmomma console-kit-daemon[997]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv
> failed:
> Dec 20 09:31:21 gigawattmomma last message repeated 26 times
> Dec 20 09:31:21 gigawattmomma dbus[741]: [system] Activating service
> name='org.mate.SettingsDaemon.DateTimeMechanism' (using servicehelper)
> Dec 20 09:31:21 gigawattmomma dbus[741]: [system] Successfully activated
> service 'org.mate.SettingsDaemon.DateTimeMechanism'
> Dec 20 09:31:22 gigawattmomma console-kit-daemon[997]: WARNING:
> get_kinfo_proc failed: No such process
> Dec 20 09:31:23 gigawattmomma console-kit-daemon[997]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv
> failed:
> Dec 20 09:31:31 gigawattmomma last message repeated 8 times
> Dec 20 09:31:33 gigawattmomma console-kit-daemon[997]: WARNING:
> get_kinfo_proc failed: No such process
> Dec 20 09:31:35 gigawattmomma console-kit-daemon[997]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv
> failed:
> Dec 20 09:31:41 gigawattmomma last message repeated 7 times
> Dec 20 09:31:42 gigawattmomma mate-session[1108]: WARNING: Child process
> 3815 was already dead
> 
> and etc.
> 
> I can still SSH to that computer, which is how I extracted these logfiles.
> 
> Any suggestions are most welcome.
> 
> Thanks!
> Scott


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