On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:44:28 +0200 (CEST) > Andreas Davour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi! > > > > I stumbled upon a page that complained that I had to install a java > > plugin to view the page. I do have a java jvm installed but din't think > > and clicked the webpage and told it to install that Linux plugin, since > > it would probably work better than the Windows one anyway. > > > > Now, afterwards Firefox just wont start! > > > > It says: > > bash-2.05b$ firefox > > firefox-bin: Fatal IO error 78 (Function not implemented) on X server > > :0.0. > > bash-2.05b$ > > > > Anyone know what that means? Is there one smart way I can fix what the > > install have destroyed? I did a 'make deinstall; make reinstall' but it > > didn't help. > > heya andreas, > > my guess would be that your java install added a few files that are not > recognized by the port 'deinstall' mechanism (because they're not listed in > the firefox port), so it leaves them and the directories intact. so, when > you reinstall, these files are still kicking around. > > you're probably going to want to deinstall firefox and watch for messages > which complain about not being able to remove directories. look for these > and any other firefox folders which still have content, then manually > delete them. (probably somewhere under/usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/...)
I probably had a brainmelt earlier tonight. That was sound advice, and would probably have worked fine. But I happened to press 'rm -fr /usr/X11R6/lib' instead... Now I have been working awhile to get that back, and have no idea what might be missing more. At least Firefox is working again, but now I broke KDE! *sigh* I think I'll need to sleep on this. Thanks anyway, I should have done as you suggested, after sleeping. /andreas _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
