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From: "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
To: Gentoo Users List <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3.0.12 emerge dies
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:31:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090729023108.GA5435@waltdnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090726202519.GA5404@waltdnes.org>

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 04:25:19PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote
>   I've been unsuccessfully trying to build the latest security patch
> version of Firefox 3.0.  I keep getting the same error message after
> 3 days of re-syncing and retrying.  The build dies early on in the
> patch-appliaction stage, so log.txt is small.  The error message
> also mentioned to include the contents of the patch ".out" file,
> which I have done as log2.txt.  Any ideas?

  I finally gave up waiting, unmerged Firefox, keyworded version 3.0.12
of Firefox-bin, and emerged that without incident.  The install
automatically created a symlink from firefox-bin to firefox, and it
launches just like before.  I'll switch to 3.5.x when support for 3.0.x
is dropped.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>



      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-29  2:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-26 20:25 [gentoo-user] Firefox 3.0.12 emerge dies Walter Dnes
2009-07-27 12:57 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2009-07-27 21:08   ` Mark Knecht
2009-07-27 21:46     ` walt
2009-07-27 23:05       ` Mark Knecht
2009-07-28  0:52       ` Walter Dnes
2009-07-29  2:31 ` Walter Dnes [this message]

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