upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5 -- now that it's installed, it won't run

[Frank Steinborn]

Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 07:28:41PM +0200, Frank Steinborn wrote:
> > Chad Perrin wrote:
> > > 
> > >     # kldload sem
> > >     kldload: can't load sem: No such file or directory
> > > 
> > >     # locate sem.ko
> > >     /boot/kernel/sysvsem.ko
> > >     /boot/kernel.GENERIC/sysvsem.ko
> > >     /boot/kernel.OPT_KOKOPELLI_APM/sysvsem.ko
> > >     /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/OPT_KOKOPELLI/modules/usr/src/sys/modules/sysvipc/sysvsem/sysvsem.ko
> > >     /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/OPT_KOKOPELLI/modules/usr/src/sys/modules/sysvipc/sysvsem/sysvsem.ko.debug
> > 
> > Not good. What version of FreeBSD are you actually running? And could
> > it be that you only build some and not all modules with your FreeBSD
> > kernel, so that sem might not be available?
> 
> It's 6.2, and it's fairly standard.  I sure as hell didn't remove any
> kernel modules from the default kernel module directory.

Now this is strange... it should be available. See the sem(4) manpage.
No idea how to help from this point except to advice you to rebuild
your kernel and see if the module becomes available. It is definitely
needed for running Firefox 3.5.

Cheers,
Frank