Re: Mozilla crash and burn?

From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander_at_Leidinger.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 15:40:06 +0100
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:07:56 -0600
Peter Schultz <pmes_at_bis.midco.net> wrote:

> >> Can you do a completely clean install of FreeBSD?  I can't help but
> > 
> > 
> > No, sorry, I can't do that. This would be against my philosophy...
> > Please suggest this to Windows users, but not to people with an OS which
> > allows to find the reason of a problem (see below).
> > 
> 
> Then don't whine like a windows user!  ;-)

Touché... :-)

> >>think you guys suffering from software degradation.  I was having a
> >>terrible time with my system after the expat debacle, but have had
> >>complete stability since starting fresh.
> > 
> > 
> > find /usr/local /usr/X11R6 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 pkg_which -v | fgrep '?' | cut -f 1 -d :
> > showed me some files which may be the cause of this (don't delete
> > everything without a review, you would delete your configs in
> > /usr/local/etc and /usr/X11R6/etc then).
> > 
> > It seems I had an old version of the freetype2 includes lying around in:
> > /usr/X11R6/include/freetype2/freetype/
> > 
> > I removed the supoerflous files (after reviewing the file list and
> > without losing my etc/ directories) and I'm rebuilding now...
> > 
> 
> I'm just curious how this worked out for you.

It works now. I have some problem with some fonts, but I've build
freetpye2 without the TT byte code interpreter, so I'm not allowed to
whine about the ugly appearance...

Bye,
Alexander.

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