www/firefox and www/firefox-esr not working.

Probably they are being rebuilt (I've seen this with mplayer2 when it still was in ports); nothing to worry about IMO. :)
 
I have upgraded to 11.1 and Firefox no longer works for me (55.0.3_1,1).

Initially it gave me errors about extensions so I moved my .mozilla directory out of the way. It now starts, runs for about 20 seconds and then dumps core.

Anybody have any idea what is causing that?
 
fl1pper said:
I have upgraded to 11.1 and Firefox no longer works for me (55.0.3_1,1).

Initially it gave me errors about extensions so I moved my .mozilla directory out of the way. It now starts, runs for about 20 seconds and then dumps core.

Anybody have any idea what is causing that?
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Restart firefox with add-ons disabled, delete .cache/mozilla/firefox and .mozilla/firefox then run firefox again and add add-ons, etc. This method worked for me when I upgraded Firefox.
 
Minbari said:
Restart firefox with add-ons disabled, delete .cache/mozilla/firefox and .mozilla/firefox then run firefox again and add add-ons, etc. This method worked for me when I upgraded Firefox.
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Unfortunately it does not work for me. Still dumps core.
 
Did you upgrade from 11.0 or a 10.x version? If you did a major version upgrade, did you reinstall all ports/packages? Did you use the port or the package? If you used the port what options did you enable/disable? Are you running a custom kernel or GENERIC?
 
SirDice said:
Did you upgrade from 11.0 or a 10.x version? If you did a major version upgrade, did you reinstall all ports/packages? Did you use the port or the package? If you used the port what options did you enable/disable? Are you running a custom kernel or GENERIC?
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Simplest case possible. I upgraded from 11.0, generic kernel and I use packages
 
YuryG said:
And the main question: «did you reinstall all ports/packages?».
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The actual question was "If you did a major version upgrade, did you reinstall all ports/packages?" which I ignored because I didn't do a major version upgrade going from 11.0 to 11.1.
 
I have now tried a couple of other browsers with the following results:

firefox - core dumps after after a few seconds
firefox-esr - core dumps before the browser window comes up
chromium - core dumps after 30 seconds or so of browsing.

Obviously it is something more fundamental than the firefox package.
 
Hi,

Have you checked if dbus is correctly installed/enabled during boot on your new system ? Do you have the following entry in your /etc/rc.conf file ? :
Code: 
dbus_enable="YES"
 
fl1pper said:
The actual question was "If you did a major version upgrade, did you reinstall all ports/packages?" which I ignored because I didn't do a major version upgrade going from 11.0 to 11.1.
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FreeBSD Handbook:
Generally, installed applications will continue to work without problems after minor version upgrades.
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As the handbook says in general there is no need to rebuild the system but sometimes things are not working as planned. I'm always rebuilding the whole system even if is a minor or major upgrade.
 
skywhi said:
Hi,

Have you checked if dbus is correctly installed/enabled during boot on your new system ? Do you have the following entry in your /etc/rc.conf file ? :
Code: 
dbus_enable="YES"
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Thanks for the suggestion, but I do have that entry.

chrbr said:
Just a question - do you run zfs on a quite weak CPU as I do? Nevertheless please install ports-mgmt/bsdadminscripts2. The output of pkg_libchk might give an answer if something fundamental is wrong.
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I have an Intel i5-2500 (3.3Ghz) which I'm unsure as to whether that would be defined as "weak". Thanks for the tip about pkg_libchk, I didn't know about that. Running it against firefox with "-d" generates no errors. Running it against the whole system puts out the error 'ELF binary type "0" not known', but because of the way the output works, it's not possible to see which package generates the error.
 
Minbari said:
FreeBSD Handbook:


As the handbook says in general there is no need to rebuild the system but sometimes things are not working as planned. I'm always rebuilding the whole system even if is a minor or major upgrade.
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I've just done this with pkg-static upgrade -f and sadly it makes no difference.
 
If you start Firefox from an Xterm (or something similar) does it print any error messages?
 
fl1pper said:
Thanks for the suggestion, but I do have that entry.



I have an Intel i5-2500 (3.3Ghz) which I'm unsure as to whether that would be defined as "weak". Thanks for the tip about pkg_libchk, I didn't know about that. Running it against firefox with "-d" generates no errors. Running it against the whole system puts out the error 'ELF binary type "0" not known', but because of the way the output works, it's not possible to see which package generates the error.
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I think that ELF error has something to do with linux binaries and is not related to firefox.
 
Yeah, you typically get that error when you try to run a Linux binary without the emulation layer enabled.
 
fl1pper said:
I have an Intel i5-2500 (3.3Ghz) which I'm unsure as to whether that would be defined as "weak".
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This should be not weak. From FreeBSD 11.1 onwards ARC is compressed which adds additional CPU load. This was very difficult on my dual core. Therefore I have disabled it by
Code: 
vfs.zfs.compressed_arc_enabled="0"
in /boot/loader.conf. Regarding pkg_libchk run it without any arguments. Then it should check everything. May be you have done that already, I just want to be sure because my earlier post is not really clear. Sorry for that.
 
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