Re: Mozilla Firefox and firebird problems after sat 022604 upgrade of FreeBSD-current

From: Don Lewis <truckman_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 13:16:57 -0800 (PST)
On 29 Feb, Michael Clark wrote:
> Every time I run either firebird or firefox, my whole computer locks up 
> and i am forced to use the power button to reset it.
> This all worked fine before I cvsup'd and upgraded yesterday, from the 
> previous weekends -current code.
> 
> I did a portupgrade -Rrupf gettext to try and correct the libintl.so.5 
> error, but it still exist for some applications unless i symlink 
> libintl.so.6 to libintl.so.5
> 
> Firebird/Firefox no longer ask for .so.5 even without the sym link.
> 
> other applications using the .so.5 lib work fine, including xchat
> 
> any help greatly appreciated

The resolver code in libc was updated on February 25 and it was
recommended that threaded applications that use the resolver be rebuilt.
Mozilla and firefox were mentioned as examples of things that should be
rebuilt.

I rebuilt mozilla and firefox after this change and haven't had any
problems.  On the other hand, if running older versions of these
applications locks up the system, that is a severely bad thing and needs
to be investigated to fix the kernel bug that is allowing this to
happen.
Received on Sun Feb 29 2004 - 12:17:06 UTC

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