OpenOffice port vs Firefox

[Bill Moran]

perryh at pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) wrote:

> Having gotten a sufficiently-recent version of glib, I am now
> several hours into the build of OpenOffice, and I've discovered
> that Firefox has quit working.  When I try to start it:
> 
> GThread-ERROR **: file gthread-posix.c: line 187 (): error 'Invalid argument' during 'pthread_mutex_trylock'
> aborting...
> Abort trap (core dumped)
> 
> Of course, since it won't start up, I can't consult Help/About
> to find out the version :(  but based on /var/db/pkg I think it is
> firefox-1.5.0.1_1,1
> 
> I suppose Firefox and OpenOffice are tripping over each other WRT
> the version of some shared library, but I thought the whole point
> of having version numbers on shared libs was to prevent that sort
> of problem.
> 
> Does anyone have Firefox and OpenOffice coexisting on a single
> system?  How is it accomplished?

Yes.  I have three computers (home, work, laptop).  All three of them
have both Firefox and OOo installed.

I would suspect that you've hit some obscure version issue.  I make it
a point to try to keep all three of these machines updated, so I'm
portupgrading them on a regular basis.  I seem to remember one point
at which I rebuilt OOo and had to rebuild firefox to get it working,
but I don't remember for sure.

-- 
Bill Moran

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