Pentadactyl "suddenly not working at all" on FreeBSD?
Adrien "Pied" Piérard
After a couple of months, my computer was forced to reboot today
because of a blackout.
I've kept it up-to date all the time, including firefox, but did not
restart the browser that much.
After the reboot, the up-to date firefox 7.0.1 (for FreeBSD 8.2
Release) started, but pentadactyl did not work.
I tried to create a new profile and install PD in it without success either.
The state I currently am in is basically that, even though in the
add-on menu, PD is activated, all looks as if it wasn't the case at
all.
No shortcut work, nothing. It's just as useless as a plain firefox…
I tried several versions of PD without any success.
Anyone else experiencing this ?
Any suggestion on how to give you proper piece of information for
finding the roots of the issue?
Cheers,
P!
gt
Do you have a .pentadactylrc? Maybe there's a problem with that..
Try deleting the .pentadactyl directory and use a new profile + a new
.pentadactylrc. Also try the latest nightly of pentadactyl instead.
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Colonel Graff
Don't delete anything, just move it so it won't be referenced. Then run FireFox with '-purgecaches' and see if that fixes it.
Adrien "Pied" Piérard
> Don't delete anything, just move it so it won't be referenced. Then run
> FireFox with '-purgecaches' and see if that fixes it.
>> Do you have a .pentadactylrc? Maybe there's a problem with that..
>> Try deleting the .pentadactyl directory and use a new profile + a new
>> .pentadactylrc. Also try the latest nightly of pentadactyl instead.
I moved .pentadactyl to .pentadactyl.old, pentadactylrc to pentadactylrc.old,
then I ran firefox with -ProfileManage -purgecaches,
created a new profile, installed the latest nightbuild,
and nothing happened besides a pop-up saying installation was successful.
I restarted firefox for the sake of it, but pentadactyl still doesn't
seem active, even it's indeed in the addons.
I don't even see the black menu bar at the bottom, with the URL.
I attach the log of running firefox from the shell.
There is an error in it, which I don't understand.
Cheers,
P!
Kris Maglione
Try a nightly.
http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/nightly/pentadactyl-latest.xpi
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Adrien "Pied" Piérard
> http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/nightly/pentadactyl-latest.xpi
I've been running hg6668, which I think is the latest.
P!
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Kris Maglione
>>> created a new profile, installed the latest nightbuild,
>> Try a nightly.
>> http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/nightly/pentadactyl-latest.xpi
>
>I've been running hg6668, which I think is the latest.
Can't be. Not with those errors. Unless you haven't tried
running with -purgecaches, which you say you have.
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Colonel Graff
I don't think you fully understood me (or perhaps I didn't explain myself well enough). I wanted you to run -purgecaches on the original profile, not when creating a brand new one... Not sure if it would be of any help in this situation though.
Adrien "Pied" Piérard
> Can't be. Not with those errors. Unless you haven't tried running with
> -purgecaches, which you say you have.
Alright, I had misunderstood Colonel Graff's message then…
So, I updated to hg6669,
quit firefox, ran it with purgecaches on my normal profile.
Still no luck getting PD run.
Log attached, with still a "recursion error"
Cheers,
Kris Maglione
>>> I've been running hg6668, which I think is the latest.
>> Can't be. Not with those errors. Unless you haven't tried running with
>> -purgecaches, which you say you have.
>
>Alright, I had misunderstood Colonel Graff's message then…
>So, I updated to hg6669,
>quit firefox, ran it with purgecaches on my normal profile.
>
>Still no luck getting PD run.
>Log attached, with still a "recursion error"
Well, that doesn't make any kind of sense unless you've left out
part of the stack trace. There are hardly any frames in that
stack.
What Firefox version are you using?
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Adrien "Pied" Piérard
> stack trace. There are hardly any frames in that stack.
That all I have.
The session is still running, and nothing else has been output to the
shell from which I ran firefox since…
> What Firefox version are you using?
firefox-7.0.1_2,1 according to the FreeBSD ports, 7.0.1 according to
Help->AboutFirefox.
Colonel Graff
I wonder if running
$ firefox 2>&1 >penta.out
Would be worth a try to ensure you catch everything...
Adrien "Pied" Piérard
> $ firefox 2>&1 >penta.out
> Would be worth a try to ensure you catch everything...
I ran firefox > penta.out 2>&1
and once browsing was possible, I quit firefox.
Log attached, not much change…
% diff log3.txt penta.out
1d0
< <adrien>~ % firefox -purgecaches
71,72c70,71
<
<
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> [NoScript] document.defaultView is null while processing JS redirects
> pentadactyl: bootstrap: shutdown shutdown
Cheers,
P!
Kris Maglione
>> I wonder if running
>> $ firefox 2>&1 >penta.out
>> Would be worth a try to ensure you catch everything...
>
>I ran firefox > penta.out 2>&1
>and once browsing was possible, I quit firefox.
>
>Log attached, not much change…
If that's the case, there seems to be something seriously wrong
with your setup. You could try an Aurora release. Or even an
official release tarball.
What exact steps are you following when you create a new
profile?
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Adrien "Pied" Piérard
> setup. You could try an Aurora release. Or even an official release tarball.
Ok, I'll try to rebuild firefox and the libs it depends on, and also
your suggestions.
> What exact steps are you following when you create a new profile?
I run firefox -ProfileManager, then choose to create a new profile
from there, choose to launch the session with this user, and voilà.
Nothing else.
P!
Colonel Graff
Unless your running an extraordinary computer I wouldn't try to recompile firefox were I you.
Not sure what your options are though. Just thought you should be warned.
Adrien "Pied" Piérard
> firefox were I you.
> Not sure what your options are though. Just thought you should be warned.
A bit of ccache and a enough CPU power makes me recompile it quickly enough.
The bug persisted after I changed the compilation options (like use of
dbus or not).
It looks like firefox-7.0.1_1 of the freebsd ports is the last one
working properly.
firefox-7.0.1_2 and firefox-7.0.1_3 misbehave as explained in the
previous emails.
I therefore downgraded firefox and made a bug report to the FreeBSD
maintainer of the port.
Maybe a bug was introduced in porting it…
Cheers,
P!
Kris Maglione
Can you post a CVS diff between those two revisions for the
Firefox port directory?
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gt
> Unless your running an extraordinary computer I wouldn't try to recompile
> firefox were I you.
off-topic: Well i have compiled firefox pgo builds a few times in the
past (3.6 series) on a pentium 4, 1GB ram machine :P