Re: does anyone have a working mozilla firefox-74.0 on 9.0 amd64?

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

OK, I don't know why this works, but I did "cat /dev/null >
/etc/ld.so.conf" and it started right up.

On Thu, 2 Jul 2020, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:

> Mine just crashes. I think there was a thread on this and you have to do
> "something" to get it working. For the life of me I can't remember what
> that was.
>
> On Wed, 1 Jul 2020, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>
> > So, does anyone have a working mozilla firefox-74.0 on 9.0 amd64?
> >
> > I've been rebuilding another amd64 system starting with a stock 9.0
> > install, and I decided I should try firefox, since I haven't tried it in
> > a very long time, so I just used "pkgin install firefox" to try....
> >
> > However it just dumps core when I start it:
> >
> > Reading symbols from /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/firefox...
> > (No debugging symbols found in /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/firefox)
> > (gdb) run
> > Starting program: /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/firefox
> > [New process 17803]
> > [Detaching after fork from child process 2656]
> > [New LWP 2 of process 17803]
> >
> > Thread 1 "" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> > 0x00007b1ac69aa96a in ?? () from /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/libxul.so
> > (gdb) bt
> > #0  0x00007b1ac69aa96a in ?? () from /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/libxul.so
> > #1  0x00007b1ac980e571 in ?? () from /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/libxul.so
> > #2  0x00007b1ac980b18b in ?? () from /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/libxul.so
> > #3  0x00007b1ac9810278 in ?? () from /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/libxul.so
> > #4  0x00007b1ac98105d9 in ?? () from /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/libxul.so
> > #5  0x00000001e8c0a810 in ?? ()
> > #6  0x00000001e8c068fd in _start ()
> > (gdb)
> >
> > (stripped binaries are a curse)
> >
> >
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