Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) to Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) upgrade problems / fixes

This blog post cover problems that I faced after upgrading my MacBook Pro from Leopard to Snow Leopard.

1. Firefox v 3.5.3 crashes.

- Firefox started to crashed randomly. Especially when I tried to access sites with flash content.

Solution: Few google results told me to re-install firefox and then install latest flash plugin. But that didn’t fix my problem. So finally I rebooted by system in Safe Mode. Opened firefox and then again restart in normal mode. After that I didn’t have any crash issues.

2. MacPort fails to install / compile new packages

- I have Apache, MySQL, PHP etc installed using MacPorts ( http://www.macports.org )

- So after upgrade, my MySQL stopped working from terminal. Also I got few error when I tried to upgrade few packages.

checking for iconv_open in -liconv... no
configure: error: *** No iconv() implementation found in C library or libiconv
Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1
--->  Executing: /opt/local/bin/port -uR upgrade glib2

Solution: So I again googled and found out that you need to re-install your MacPorts once you do major OS upgrade. So I followed these instructions: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration. This fixed my issues.

For my macbook I have installed following ports using this command:

sudo port install apache2 mysql5-server php52 +pear +mysql5 php5-xdebug subversion

I will update this post as and when I get more issues. Hopefully there won’t be any..