On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 03:42:00PM +0000, Grzegorz Junka wrote: > > On 09/06/2016 19:52, Bob Willcox wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 01:21:06PM +0000, Grzegorz Junka wrote: > >> On 09/06/2016 13:10, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > >>> On 06/09/16 00:10, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >>>> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Bob Willcox < <kob6...@gmail.com> > >>>> b...@immure.com> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Ok, I finally figured out how to get portdowngrade to give me a > >>>>> 46.0.1,1 > >>>>> version of firefox and built & installed it. Unfortunately, that didn't > >>>>> solve > >>>>> my hanging firefox scripts problem so apparently it's likely to be > >>>>> caused > >>>>> by > >>>>> something else that got updated when I did the portupgrade on June > >>>>> 4th. Not > >>>>> sure where to go from here... > >>>>> > >>>>> Bob > >>>>> > >>>> No easy answers. I, also have no issues with 47.0 on my system and there > >>>> are no other reports of the problem you are having. So where to look? > >>>> > >>>> What version of FreeBSD are you running? On what platform? i386 or > >>>> amd64 or > >>>> something else. Most people are running amd64. If ir is another > >>>> platform, > >>>> issues are less likely to have been seen. Is it 10.3 or something else. > >>>> > >>>> Unless someone else has a better suggestion, I'd re-install all > >>>> dependencies. Older versions are more likely to have issues.I use > >>>> portmaster, but I know portupgrade can also do this. Or use packages. > >>>> It's > >>>> a lot faster when you don't need any options on the ports. > >>>> > >>>> Other than that, I have no good ideas other than to re-install > >>>> everything. > >>>> And that may not fix it as it is possible that it's a memory or other > >>>> hardware issue. > >>>> > >>>> I hope someone else has a better idea than I. > >>>> -- > >>>> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired > >>>> E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > >>>> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > >>>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > >>> > >>> +1 on packages, *much* faster & same end result if you have no special > >>> compile options .... > >>> > >>> > >> I second that and repeat what I said before. If you want to compile your > >> own packages with custom options then fine, but do it properly with > >> either poudriere or synth. Otherwise, just use the FreeBSD generic ones. > >> Portupgrade and portmaster are fine but only as long as they work, and > >> from my experience sooner or later they always stop working and from > >> then there is going to be a path of misery, wasted time and broken > >> applications. > > Well, I've compiled and reinstalled all of the packages on the system with > > synth with the same result. BTW, from what I could tell, synth forced me to > > remove any local configuration files that I had for the half a dozen or so > > ports prior to allowing me to to the 'synth upgrade-system' run. > > > > I don't know what is going on/wrong with firefox, but it seems to be getting > > hung up with some scripts that it tries to run. Since I replaced the version > > 47 of firefox with the previous 46 version and the problem persisted, I > > suspect that the issue may not be in firefox at all. It's just the victim. > > > > That sounds bad indeed. Have you tried to reinstall using the official > pkg repository (not compiled on your machine)? > > BTW Firefox 47 just started crashing today for me. Nothing to do with > scripts, some exception in one of the *.c files (according to the > popup). I am now creating a new batch of packages with poudriere and > will try to upgrade to a newer version.
Ugh. Mine hasn't crashed, just hung to the point where I have to kill it. Jan has suggested some things for me to try that I plan to do when I get some time. I'll post how that went once I've tried them. Bob -- Bob Willcox | Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? b...@immure.com | Who knows? Who cares? Austin, TX | _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"