segmentation fault with firefox, seamonkey

[Marius Strobl]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:36:36PM +0100, AIJAZ BAIG wrote:
> Hi..
> 
> I have been able to finally get the X11 up and running thnks to the
> xorg.conf file supplied by gheorgie on freeBSD 7,0. So I installed xfce4
> using sysinstall. I am now trying to install firefox. After installing
> firefox using sysinstall, whenever i use it, it never starts and a seg-fault
> occurs (with core dump).
> 
> This is also true with seamonkey as the very same thing happens. Is it
> because xfce4 couldn't ascertain my domain name as when it starts it gives
> me a warning that it couldn't ascertain my domain name (i supplied the
> hostname myself during install)?
> 
> Where should I check the log of whats actually happening with them (as the
> dumped core file is not human readable)?

The pre-compiled packages of Gecko based stuff offered for
7.0-RELEASE basically all suffer from the same problem; you
need to compile it youself with rev. 1.30 of
ports/www/mozilla/Makefile.common
in place.

> 
> Additionally, my cursor seems really fluttery when I use emacs (also
> installed from the ports collection). Should I lower the refresh rates in
> xorg.conf file?
> 

No idea on this one, sorry.

Marius