On 08/27/2018 09:54 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 8/25/18 10:54 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
2) Firefox segfaults when I start it, either from command line or from the
system menu. Is this a known bug? Are there any other graphical (i.e.,
non-text-mode) browsers I can use instead? I can use elinks for most things,
but it’s a lot harder to configure cups printers when you don’t have a
graphical browser!
This is a known bug which has reported upstream. I don’t have the bug number at
hand at the moment. I have been trying to debug it but I was unsuccessful so
far.
See:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1405062
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1466567
Adrian
bugid : 1405062
An interesting thing: the only architecture where we see this has
pagesize of 64k (may be just a coincidence though).
I have pagesize 4096 bytes here so I could see what happens.
nix$ uname -a
Linux nix 4.18.5-genunix #1 SMP Sat Aug 25 16:18:55 GMT 2018 ppc64 GNU/Linux
nix$ getconf PAGESIZE
4096
nix$ su -
Password:
root@nix:~# apt-get install firefox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
firefox : Depends: libevent-2.0-5 (>= 2.0.10-stable) but it is not
installable
Depends: libhunspell-1.4-0 but it is not installable
Depends: libvpx4 (>= 1.6.0) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
root@nix:~#
Guess not.
Subject line "G5 fans run out of control" didn't seem reasonable for
a browser problem.
Anyways .. I'll poke at that patch from Linus .. for fun.
Dennis
