Firefox and SQLite mismatch

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I just updated my system and Firefox no longer works. It gives me the following warning:
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The application has been updated, but your version of SQLite is too old and the application cannot run.

Because I mainly wanted to update flash, I used the following procedure:
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# freebsd-update fetch
# freebsd-update install
# portsnap fetch update
#  portmaster www/nspluginwrapper
# portmaster  www/linux-c6-flashplugin11
%  nspluginwrapper -v -a -u
My searches show this to be an old problem, but I couldn't find a FreeBSD specific fix for this. I would appreciate any suggestions at all since I rely heavily on a browser and hope I don't lose the 100 tabs I had open, which would be disastrous for me.
 
Thanks good-beastie. Both those commands show many missing instances of these:

libicui18n.so.53
libicuuc.so.53
libicudata.so.53


However all three of those exist in /usr/local/lib so I have no idea of what to do about that.
 
I just now got Firefox to run by installing a new version of sqlite3 thus:
pkg install sqlite3
After a reboot, the Firefox process was running, but upon killing that, I could start it again. Unfortunately it won't restart the last session, but it does look like all history is there so that is a bit of help. My configuration in about:config and all addons are gone, but that's not a big deal for me to fix.

I wonder what I did wrong or if this is a problem with pkg or the latest Firefox.
 
I did look at UPDATING, but didn't see anything about Sqlite or Firefox so just went ahead. Since I'm using packages, I figured there was nothing else for me to do anyway. I'll go look at devel/icu now.
 
OJ said:
I did look at UPDATING, but didn't see anything about Sqlite or Firefox so just went ahead. Since I'm using packages, I figured there was nothing else for me to do anyway. I'll go look at devel/icu now.
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OK, run the pkg check -Bsdr when done updating or with a reinstall. That is a good way after every change with packages.
 
good-beastie said:
OK, run the pkg check -Bsdr when done updating or with a reinstall. That is a good way after every change with packages.
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I just did that and the same messages as before came up. My repository is up-to-date and
pkg install icu


gives this output:

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Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
The most recent version of packages are already installed

Since the devel/icu libraries are up-to-date I don't know how to interpret the, seemingly erroneous, output of pkg check -Bsdr, or if there's anything else I can do. In any case Firefox works and everything else looks ok, so perhaps I'll leave well enough alone for now.
 
Selectively updating packages would be the cause. The shared library provided by devel/icu is currently 55.1 and a pkg info -l icu on my system confirms this with file names that look like this: /usr/local/lib/libicui18n.so.55.1. Your results show you have packages that refer to the older version of the library. You either need to run pkg upgrade or follow the instructions in
/usr/ports/UPDATING.
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20150420:
  AFFECTS: users of devel/icu
  AUTHOR: bapt@FreeBSD.org

  icu has been updated to 55.1. Please rebuild all ports that depends on it

  If you use portmaster:
        [CMD]portmaster -w -r icu[/CMD]
  If you use portupgrade:
        [CMD]portupgrade -fr devel/icu[/CMD]
 
I'm thinking I made a mistake by updating www/linux-c6-flashplugin11 without running pkg upgrade first. Updating flash pulled in an awful lot of stuff and that did worry me, but I thought that Flash should be updatable at any time. Perhaps I'm wrong in that. Many sites display (something like) "you need 10.0 or greater" even though I'm running 11.2. I guess I've also gotten behind in understanding the pkg system because I notice the Handbook has extended information on it now. (Yes, I'm slow.)

Anyway, thanks for your detailed information. It really clarified the situation for me and I think I'll be on track now.
 
islamux said:
this helped me alot :) thanx but i had triple firefox & sqlite :(
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i solved the problem :)
by upgrading the pakages , befor that i descoverd brocken packages.

to know the brocken packages
sudo pkg check -Bsdr
then upgrade packages
sudo pkg upgrade
 
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