Installing firefox 3.5 on FreeBSD fails

[Beat Gaetzi]

Stijn Bouwhuis wrote:
> A ports installation of firefox35 leads to the application crashing on
> a freshly installed machine running xfce 4.4.2. The standards tabs
> open, the status bar mentions "Transferring data from [website]" and
> after about 3 seconds, the application crashes. In addition, firefox
> is not listed as a browser among the xfce preferred applications, the
> list that is automatically generated based on installed applications.
> 
> madrid# /usr/local/bin/firefox3
> LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
> /root/.mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so [/root/.mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so:
> unsupported file layout]
> Bad system call (core dumped)

You need to load the sem module:
# kldload sem

To load sem on every boot put the following line into your
/boot/loader.conf:
sem_load="YES"

Beat