FreeBSD 11.2, X.org, Xfce, and Firefox issues

[Polytropon]

On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 20:39:14 -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> I have installed FreeBSD on a Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop.  My goal is to 
> use it as a desktop/ workstation on my SOHO network:
> 
> root at ragnar-ssd:~ # freebsd-version ; uname -a
> 11.2-RELEASE-p9
> FreeBSD ragnar-ssd 11.2-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p9 #0: Tue Feb 
> 5 15:30:36 UTC 2019 
> root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> 
> 
> I have also installed:
> 
> root at ragnar-ssd:~ # pkg info | egrep '^(xorg-7|xfce-|firefox-)'
> firefox-66.0.2,1               Web browser based on the browser portion 
> of Mozilla
> xfce-4.12_1                    The "meta-port" for the Xfce Desktop 
> Environment
> xorg-7.7_3                     X.Org complete distribution metaport
> 
> 
> When I start Firefox via an Xfce panel shortcut, it starts.  But when I 
> try to browse to a URL, it core dumps and the Firefox window spins 
> attempting to connect to the URL:
> 
>          root at ragnar-ssd:~ # tail -n 1 /var/log/messages
>          Apr 29 19:53:03 ragnar-ssd kernel: pid 899 (firefox), uid 
> 13250: exited
> on signal 11 (core dumped)
> 
>          2019-04-29 19:55:28 dpchrist at ragnar-ssd ~
>          $ ll firefox.core
>          -rw-------  1 dpchrist  dpchrist  127205376 2019/04/29 19:53:03 
> firefox.
> core
> 
> 
> When I start Firefox via Terminal:
> 
> 	2019-04-29 19:46:51 dpchrist at ragnar-ssd ~
> 	$ firefox
> 
> 	(firefox:884): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: 19:46:58.095: 
> remote volume monitor with dbus name org.gtk.vfs.HalVolumeMonitor is not 
> supported

Did you install and are you running HAL and DBus? Does your
/etc/rc.conf at least contain:

	dbus_enable="YES"

This is the only thing I have added (for a reason I cannot
remember anymore), but I'm using Fvwm2 + wbar on that system.



> Any suggestions for fixing Firefox?

I'm running firefox-66.0.3_1,1 on a FreeBSD 12.0-p3 system,
and due to tradition I have added the following to
/etc/sysctl.conf:

	kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed=1

If I remember correctly, Firefox needs this to work.




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