Firefox crashes on startup

[Ilari Laitinen]

James Bailie <jimmy at mammothcheese.ca> 2006-11-08 16:25:47 +0200:
> Justin Smith wrote:
> 
> > This problem first appeared after upgrading Gnome to 2.16. Oddly,
> > another computer seemingly configured exactly the same doesn't have this
> > problem.
> 
> There is likely a library mismatch somewhere which was not caught
> by the ports system.  I recently upgraded to firefox 2.0 and she
> crashed on startup, but after invoking "portupgrade -R firefox" to
> force an upgrade of dependencies, all was well.  So that may be
> the first thing to try.

I had the same problem. It turned out that three Gnome libraries¹
were for some reason shadowed in /usr/X11R6/lib. "portsclean -Li"
solved the problem. Perhaps Justin should try that, too, if Firefox
still doesn't want to start.

Ilari Laitinen

1   libgtk-12.so.2
    libgdk-12.so.2
    libgconf-2.so.4

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Ilari Laitinen