Re: Please test Firefox on ppc64
Hello Carsten, On 9/3/23 11:40 AM, Carsten Jacobi wrote: > ... I'm reluctant > on "just trying out the new version", I'm not sure whether I'll be able > to get back to the still working version in case the new one doesn't > run and just crashes. > ... You could create a backup before you install Firefox, then restore from that backup if Firefox doesn't work (that's what I ended up doing). I use Gentoo and Debian SID on my PowerMac G5 as rescue systems for each other. -Stan
Re: Please test Firefox on ppc64
Hello Adrian,
On 8/31/23 3:06 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Thanks to the efforts of Debian's Firefox maintainer, the Firefox package
> is building again on ppc64 (big-endian) the first time in a long period.
>
> However, we don't know whether Firefox actually works on 64-bit Big-Endian
> PowerPC.
>
> Can anyone running Debian on ppc64 please give it a try?
>
> Thanks,
> Adrian
>
On a PowerMac G5 with 8 GB memory, I updated to the latest Debian SID,
then I installed firefox ("apt-get install firefox"). It had a
segmentation fault when I ran it from the command line (Firefox did not
automatically run when I clicked on the Web Browser icon in xfce4).
I wasn't able to use vmlinux-6.4.0-4-powerpc64, since that kernel
doesn't support nVidia cards (I used a custom 6.5.1 kernel that worked).
-Stan
Re: Please test Firefox on ppc64
Hello, I'm running firefox on 64-bit Big-Endian and am till current date stuck on these packages: ii firefox 85.0.1-1 ppc64 Mozilla Firefox web browser ii firefox-esr 78.14.0esr-1+b1 ppc64 Mozilla Firefox web browser - Extended Support Release (ESR) Since there was no stable update path after those packages I did everything possible to stay on these versions to have a working browser available on my system. That's why I'm reluctant on "just trying out the new version", I'm not sure whether I'll be able to get back to the still working version in case the new one doesn't run and just crashes. For some time there was also the "epiphany" web browser available as an alternative web-browser with JavaScript support (though I hate JavaScript, but many Web-Pages nowadays require it). But also here the last version I had crashed constantly and I can't try out a newer version as this would break the dependency chain for the still working version of firefox I still have … Regards, Carsten Am 31.08.23 um 23:06 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: Hi! Thanks to the efforts of Debian's Firefox maintainer, the Firefox package is building again on ppc64 (big-endian) the first time in a long period. However, we don't know whether Firefox actually works on 64-bit Big-Endian PowerPC. Can anyone running Debian on ppc64 please give it a try? Thanks, Adrian
Re: Please test Firefox on ppc64
On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 11:16:01PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Thu, 2023-08-31 at 23:06 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Can anyone running Debian on ppc64 please give it a try? > > It might crash because of this bug: > > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1845669 Just installed and given firefox 117.0-1 a spin on ppc64. It segfaults on startup. Not sure if that is the bug you reference. I can try to get a backtrace. Hmm the debugging symbols file is massive and gdb is already up to 85% memory and swap used. Still loading and voraciously swapping virtual memory. Maybe another day... Regards, Michael.
