Re: Firefox v38.2.1 will not start

On 04/11/16 19:26, Steve Wendt wrote:
> On 4/11/2016 10:47 AM, John Poltorak wrote:
>
>> I've used chkdll32 on firefox.exe and xul.dll and get a Fontconfig error
>> Cannot load default config file
>
> The simplest fix for this is to simply extract the fontconfig package to
> the root of the same drive that you have your Mozilla programs on.
>
> Alternatively, you can set up UNIXROOT, or some FontConfig specific
> environment variables.  There's been a few threads here about it.
>


I'm not sure what FontConfig is... (been away for a while)

But here is a list of all the DLLs available to Firefox:-

#firefox.cmd

SET LIBPATHSTRICT=T
set beginlibpath=f:\firefox.mzfntcfg;f:\firefox.mozsupport
f:
cd \firefox
cmd

Directory of F:\firefox.mzfntcfg

30-07-15   3:03a     91730           0  fntcfg2.dll
30-07-15   3:03a      3939         124  fntcfg2.xqs
30-07-15   2:44a    435727           0  freetyp2.dll
30-07-15   2:55a     17450         124  freetyp2.xqs
30-07-15   2:59a    356427           0  freetyp6.dll
30-07-15   3:01a     17450         124  freetyp6.xqs
  7-12-14   5:49a      6741         124  FTL.TXT
  7-12-14   5:49a     17994         124  GPLv2.TXT
  7-12-14   5:49a      1611         124  LICENSE.TXT
22-12-12   4:49a      1590         124  mzfntcfg.COPYING
30-07-15   3:09a       578           0  Readme
        13 file(s)     951237 bytes used



Directory of F:\firefox.mozsupport

26-02-16   8:57p    606816         124  cairo2.dll
  8-09-14   4:42p    104523         124  expat7.dll
14-12-15   6:56p     84766         124  fntcfg2.dll
  1-03-16   5:45p    156760         124  fntcnf1.dll
26-02-16   2:56p    380134         124  freetyp6.dll
26-01-16  10:30p    598078         124  glib2.dll
26-01-16  10:30p      4923         124  gmod2.dll
26-01-16  10:30p    190208         124  gobj2.dll
26-01-16  10:30p      6012         124  gthr2.dll
  2-02-15   2:19a     29202         124  intl8.dll
24-01-16   6:42a     12062         124  kai0.dll
25-08-14   3:10p      9589         124  mmap.dll
17-03-16   5:02a      2701          35  mozsupport.txt
20-02-16   6:09p    152095         124  pango100.dll
  1-03-16   2:41p    385709         124  pixman10.dll
26-02-16   4:03p    124355         124  png1616.dll
21-05-15   2:27p      6298         124  pthr01.dll
11-06-15   8:48a      2922         124  urpo.dll
  1-06-14  11:41p     56374         124  z.dll
        21 file(s)    2913527 bytes used


Directory of F:\usr\lib

26-02-16   8:57p    606816         124  cairo2.dll
  1-02-15   7:08p     26491         124  gcc1.dll
  2-02-15   9:37a      4122         124  gcc473.dll
26-10-14   8:17p    157213           0  libc065.dll
26-10-14   8:16p   1361666           0  libc066.dll
  1-02-15   7:08p    388543         124  stdcpp6.dll
         8 file(s)    2544851 bytes used


F:\firefox>chkdll32 xul.dll

Loading DLL 'libc066' --> F:\USR\LIB\LIBC066.DLL.
Loading DLL 'nspr4' --> F:\FIREFOX\NSPR4.DLL.
Loading DLL 'mozalloc' --> F:\FIREFOX\MOZALLOC.DLL.
Loading DLL 'stdcpp6' --> F:\USR\LIB\STDCPP6.DLL.
Loading DLL 'gcc1' --> F:\USR\LIB\GCC1.DLL.
Loading DLL 'nss3' --> F:\FIREFOX\NSS3.DLL.
Loading DLL 'nssutil3' --> F:\FIREFOX\NSSUTIL3.DLL.
Loading DLL 'plc4' --> F:\FIREFOX\PLC4.DLL.
Loading DLL 'pmwin' --> F:\OS2\DLL\PMWIN.DLL.
Loading DLL 'pthr01' --> F:\FIREFOX.MOZSUPPORT\PTHR01.DLL.
Loading DLL 'plds4' --> F:\FIREFOX\PLDS4.DLL.
Loading DLL 'doscalls' --> loaded.
Loading DLL 'pmwp' --> F:\OS2\DLL\PMWP.DLL.
Loading DLL 'pmshapi' --> F:\OS2\DLL\PMSHAPI.DLL.
Loading DLL 'uconv' --> F:\OS2\DLL\UCONV.DLL.
Loading DLL 'libuni' --> F:\OS2\DLL\LIBUNI.DLL.
Loading DLL 'ssl3' --> F:\FIREFOX\SSL3.DLL.
Loading DLL 'tcpip32' --> F:\MPTN\DLL\TCPIP32.DLL.
Loading DLL 'mmap' --> F:\FIREFOX.MOZSUPPORT\MMAP.DLL.
Loading DLL 'pixman10' --> F:\FIREFOX.MOZSUPPORT\PIXMAN10.DLL.
Loading DLL 'mozsqlt3' --> F:\FIREFOX\MOZSQLT3.DLL.
Loading DLL 'cairo2' Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
--> F:\FIREFOX.MOZSUPPORT\CAIRO2.DLL.
Loading DLL 'pmgpi' --> F:\OS2\DLL\PMGPI.DLL.
Loading DLL 'freetyp6' --> F:\FIREFOX.MZFNTCFG\FREETYP6.DLL.
Loading DLL 'fntcnf1' --> F:\FIREFOX.MOZSUPPORT\FNTCNF1.DLL.
Loading DLL 'pango100' --> F:\FIREFOX.MOZSUPPORT\PANGO100.DLL.
Loading DLL 'pmmerge' --> F:\OS2\DLL\PMMERGE.DLL.
Loading DLL 'pmspl' --> F:\OS2\DLL\PMSPL.DLL.
Loading DLL 'pmdrag' --> F:\OS2\DLL\PMDRAG.DLL.
Loading DLL 'pmctls' --> F:\OS2\DLL\PMCTLS.DLL.
Loading DLL 'kai0' --> F:\FIREFOX.MOZSUPPORT\KAI0.DLL.
Loading DLL 'smime3' --> F:\FIREFOX\SMIME3.DLL.
Loading DLL 'nls' --> F:\OS2\DLL\NLS.DLL.
Loading DLL 'sesmgr' --> F:\OS2\DLL\SESMGR.DLL.
All DLL's used by 'xul.dll' could be loaded.



What is this config file and where should I find it?