Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

[Alan McKinnon]

Apparently, though unproven, at 18:32 on Sunday 19 September 2010, Kevin 
O'Gorman did opine thusly:

> Yeah, me too.  I teach at a university and classes start tomorrow. I've had
> the fox not starting as someone else did, then on upgrade it was sort of
> working, then not.  The last bug I submitted led to the instruction to
> start with a clean profile.  Sounds sensible, but that means none of my
> bookmarks, ad blocks, noscript, cookies or anything.  I tried it anyway
> with 3.6.9 and Xmarks only (really need those bookmarks).  It died before
> I could get near to the original problem.  That's when I started this
> thread.  I've got other more urgent things to do with my time.
>
>
> Like my laptop's Ubuntu which suddenly decided it didn't know anything
> about its network adapters, and I could not figure out the config tools
> that seem to want me to know the MAC address of all that stuff.  No clue,
> don't know how to find out, but at least I can back up my home
> directories.  But I need this thing for class _tomorrow_ and I've got a
> lot of stuff to print and get on the web -- these things have cost me
> about a week.
>
> I'm writing this on Opera.  I'll try chrome if it's easy to figure out.  I
> don't expect to see the fox on gentoo again any time soon.  I'm sad
> because I used to like it.  Good luck.


Firefox seems to suffer badly with upgrades here too. But revdep-rebuild 
usually fixes it. If not revdep-rebuild then a good dose of common sense 
usually helps me find the thing that needs rebuilding.

The most recent change needed nss to be rebuilt, then firefox again.

It's a similar situation to xorg-server and it's drivers. Portage can't 
trigger a rebuild of the drivers as their version didn't change.


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