Re: [expert] Mozilla 0.8.1 for LM72 error messages
Tom, I've been following this thread and others like it and I can't help but wonder with BIG curiousity. How does one go about "rebuilding" an rpm.src package? And is there already info on this contained on my system? Mark On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday 08 April 2001 01:10 pm, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Tom and friends: I tried to rebuild the Cooker versions of Mozilla but still got the same error messages because of the rpm issue. By the way, my AMD K6-2 400 is really a i586, not an i686. There was a Never a problem here Ben (P3-450@600). Out of curiousity, I d/l'd the cooker mozilla-0.8.1-2mdk src rpm yesterday and rebuilt it on my 7.2, rpm-3.0.5-27mdk version, glibc-2.1.3-18.5mdk, 2.4.3 kernel system. This src rpm builds: mozilla-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm, mozilla-devel-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm, mozilla-irc-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm, mozilla-mail-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm, mozilla-psm-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm I installed (rpm -Uvh) only mozilla and mozilla-devel, no problems. 'Help, about Mozilla' shows: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-5tom i686; en-US; 0.8.1) Gecko/20010408 This is a very long compile, twice as long as a kernel, over an hour on my box. In compiles like this (or any for that matter), if you get errors, you should try again a few times. If you're getting errors in different places, it's most likely that your hardware is not up to the task.
Re: [expert] Mozilla 0.8.1 for LM72 error messages
On Tuesday 10 April 2001 06:34 am, Mark Weaver wrote: Tom, I've been following this thread and others like it and I can't help but wonder with BIG curiousity. How does one go about "rebuilding" an rpm.src package? And is there already info on this contained on my system? Using mozilla as an example, I 'cd' into the dir I d/l'd to and type (as root) 'rpm --rebuild mozilla-0.8.1-2mdk.src.rpm' rpm unpacks the source and compiles and builds the rpms mozilla-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm, mozilla-devel-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm, mozilla-irc-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm, mozilla-mail-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm, mozilla-psm-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm Many src.rpms build more than one rpm, eg SimGear-0.0.14-4mdk.src.rpm builds SimGear-0.0.14-4mdk.i686.rpm and SimGear-devel-0.0.14-4mdk.i686.rpm --rebuild figures out what optimization to use, in my case PIII, i686. When the compile/building process is finished, the new rpms are written to /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i?86/. When --rebuild finishes, if you look a dozen or so lines up in --rebuild's output in the terminal you'll see something like " wrote: /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686/mozilla-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm " Then I just copy/paste this after 'rpm -Uvh' to install the new rpm (minus the 'wrote:' of course ;) Note tho, not all cooker src rpms will --rebuild on a 7.2 system. Most often failure I get is a dependency on glibc 2.2.x. Most single app src.rpms (eg, mozilla) will compile just fine using 7.2's glibc-2.1.x 'Course the usual "untested-beta-etc" cautions also apply. If you're using the new 8.0, then all cooker src.rpms should compile and build. -- Dale Earnhardt, the greatest stock car driver ever, he's won his 8th and His Greatest Championship Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday 08 April 2001 01:10 pm, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Tom and friends: I tried to rebuild the Cooker versions of Mozilla but still got the same error messages because of the rpm issue. By the way, my AMD K6-2 400 is really a i586, not an i686. There was a Never a problem here Ben (P3-450@600). Out of curiousity, I d/l'd the cooker mozilla-0.8.1-2mdk src rpm yesterday and rebuilt it on my 7.2, rpm-3.0.5-27mdk version, glibc-2.1.3-18.5mdk, 2.4.3 kernel system. This src rpm builds: mozilla-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm, mozilla-devel-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm, mozilla-irc-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm, mozilla-mail-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm, mozilla-psm-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm I installed (rpm -Uvh) only mozilla and mozilla-devel, no problems. 'Help, about Mozilla' shows: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-5tom i686; en-US; 0.8.1) Gecko/20010408 This is a very long compile, twice as long as a kernel, over an hour on my box. In compiles like this (or any for that matter), if you get errors, you should try again a few times. If you're getting errors in different places, it's most likely that your hardware is not up to the task. -- Dale Earnhardt, the greatest stock car driver ever, he's won his 8th and His Greatest Championship Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [expert] Mozilla 0.8.1 for LM72 error messages
Dear Mark: Rebuilding an src.rpm package is the easiest thing in the world. Download the src.rpm package, then, as root , type in xterm: #rpm --rebuild mozilla-0.8.1.src.rpm (or whatever the name of the file). Make sure the file ends in "src.rpm", not "rpm." You can also add the target build for your system: rpm --rebuild mozilla-0.8.1.src.rpm --target=i586 You should replace "i586" by whatever your system demands. Remember that AMD K6 systems are really i586, NOT i686 as they claim. You can try it first without the target setting and, if necessary, try it again with the target setting. There is NOTHING else to be done. Just wait. It could take an hour or two or three or many more depending on what you are rebuilding, on how big the files is. If all goes well, your rebuilding will end with a return to the prompt and with NO error messages. You then go to /usr/src/ to find your RPM file, that is, the rpm file you just built for your own system. All such rebuilt rpms are auotomatically stored in: [sher@sher07 sher]$ cd /usr/src/RPM/RPMS [sher@sher07 RPMS]$ ls i386/ i486/ i586/ i686/ k6/ noarch/ [sher@sher07 RPMS]$ Go into any of these builds and look for your files. It should be stored in whatever your system build category is. But, if not, try them all to be sure. They should be in one of these categories. Benjamin
Re: [expert] Mozilla 0.8.1 for LM72 error messages
That's interesting...thank you Ben. Mark On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Mark: Rebuilding an src.rpm package is the easiest thing in the world. Download the src.rpm package, then, as root , type in xterm: #rpm --rebuild mozilla-0.8.1.src.rpm (or whatever the name of the file). Make sure the file ends in "src.rpm", not "rpm." You can also add the target build for your system: rpm --rebuild mozilla-0.8.1.src.rpm --target=i586 You should replace "i586" by whatever your system demands. Remember that AMD K6 systems are really i586, NOT i686 as they claim. You can try it first without the target setting and, if necessary, try it again with the target setting. There is NOTHING else to be done. Just wait. It could take an hour or two or three or many more depending on what you are rebuilding, on how big the files is. If all goes well, your rebuilding will end with a return to the prompt and with NO error messages. You then go to /usr/src/ to find your RPM file, that is, the rpm file you just built for your own system. All such rebuilt rpms are auotomatically stored in: [sher@sher07 sher]$ cd /usr/src/RPM/RPMS [sher@sher07 RPMS]$ ls i386/ i486/ i586/ i686/ k6/ noarch/ [sher@sher07 RPMS]$ Go into any of these builds and look for your files. It should be stored in whatever your system build category is. But, if not, try them all to be sure. They should be in one of these categories. Benjamin
Re: [expert] Mozilla 0.8.1 for LM72 error messages
On Sunday 08 April 2001 01:10 pm, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Tom and friends: I tried to rebuild the Cooker versions of Mozilla but still got the same error messages because of the rpm issue. By the way, my AMD K6-2 400 is really a i586, not an i686. There was a Never a problem here Ben (P3-450@600). Out of curiousity, I d/l'd the cooker mozilla-0.8.1-2mdk src rpm yesterday and rebuilt it on my 7.2, rpm-3.0.5-27mdk version, glibc-2.1.3-18.5mdk, 2.4.3 kernel system. This src rpm builds: mozilla-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm, mozilla-devel-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm, mozilla-irc-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm, mozilla-mail-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm, mozilla-psm-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm I installed (rpm -Uvh) only mozilla and mozilla-devel, no problems. 'Help, about Mozilla' shows: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-5tom i686; en-US; 0.8.1) Gecko/20010408 This is a very long compile, twice as long as a kernel, over an hour on my box. In compiles like this (or any for that matter), if you get errors, you should try again a few times. If you're getting errors in different places, it's most likely that your hardware is not up to the task. -- Dale Earnhardt, the greatest stock car driver ever, he's won his 8th and His Greatest Championship Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [expert] Mozilla 0.8.1 for LM72 error messages
Dear Tom: Thanks so much for your detailed comments on mozilla 0.8.1. I did in fact try to rebuild the Cooker src.rpm for mozilla 0.8.1 but failed and got the same error messages that I got from the Texstar rpm. And it showed in the performance: constant crashes and freezes. Please note my new post with the URL of the Red Hat 6 src.rpm of mozilla 0.8.1 (dated Apr 6, 01). I hope this RH6 src.rpm (which uses rpm 3, just like all Mandrake versions up until and including LM72) will yield perfect i586 mozilla files on my AMD K6-2 (which, we have been told, is really a i586) and without any error messages. Will let the list know if my rebuild is not perfect. Thanks again. Benjamin
Re: [expert] Mozilla 0.8.1 for LM72 error messages
Benjamin Sher wrote: to rebuild the Cooker src.rpm for mozilla 0.8.1 but failed and got the same error messages that I got from the Texstar rpm. And it showed in the performance: constant crashes and freezes. By any chance are you overclocking your CPU? If yes, try backing it down one notch. Also, have you recently added RAM? It could be bad and/or be heat related or it could have recently gone bad. If you recompile the kernel 2 or 3 times (just to exercise the memory and CPU--don't install it), do you ever get any errors? -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mrball.net | Sometimes you get experience. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --unknown origin |
Re: [expert] Mozilla 0.8.1 for LM72 error messages
On Saturday 07 April 2001 08:08 pm, Benjamin Sher wrote: As I reported earlier, you can get Mozilla 0.8.1 (the latest March 26, 2001) version for LM72 (not for Cooker or LM8.0 directly from Texstar at: http://texstar.dyn.dhs.org Could one of the gurus on our list please explain to us newbies what this is all about and whether it would be safe to use this version of Mozilla or whether it would be safer to use Mozilla 0.8 (from Feb. 17, 2001), also available, by the way, from the same site for LM72. Ben, I d/l cooker src rpms and rebuild 'em on my 7.2 system. I'm not having any problems with the one below. MOF, I use it equally a long with Konqueror. 8.1-2mdk is available now (maybe the one Texstar used). On the cooker list the developers are recommending to use their 8.0 rpms, as they believe there's some minor bugs in mozilla's 8.1 for some users. You might have better luck getting a src rpm and rebuilding it on your system, rather than using one that's been built on somebody else's system. /home/tom : rpm -qpil /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686/mozilla-0.8.1-1mdk.i686.rpm Name: mozilla Relocations: /usr Version : 0.8.1 Vendor: (none) Release : 1mdk Build Date: Wed 28 Mar 2001 Group : Networking/WWWSource RPM: mozilla-0.8.1-1mdk.src.rpm Size: 18411692 License: MPL/NPL URL : http://www.mozilla.org Summary : Mozilla, open-source web browser -- Dale Earnhardt, the greatest stock car driver ever, he's won his 8th and His Greatest Championship Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [expert] Mozilla 0.8.1 for LM72 error messages
Dear Tom and friends: I tried to rebuild the Cooker versions of Mozilla but still got the same error messages because of the rpm issue. By the way, my AMD K6-2 400 is really a i586, not an i686. There was a discussion of this on our list recently, and you may recall Jose M. Sanchez informed opinion that the AMD K6-2 is really a i586, NOT, as AMD's marketing claims, a 686. The Texstar rpms are i586 and I hope they were in fact rebuilt for LM72 using rpm version 3.0, not the 4.0 rpm version used in building Cooker/LM-8. That's the issue. If Texstar's i586 rpms are OK for LM72 why am I getting the "runtime mismatch" and the "leaking context" errors? And what in the world does this mean? Mozilla does install correctly with 50 hashes but afterwords, before returning to the prompt, it give you these two error messages. What does this mean? Thanks so very much. Benjamin On Sunday 08 April 2001 11:44, you wrote: On Saturday 07 April 2001 08:08 pm, Benjamin Sher wrote: As I reported earlier, you can get Mozilla 0.8.1 (the latest March 26, 2001) version for LM72 (not for Cooker or LM8.0 directly from Texstar at: http://texstar.dyn.dhs.org -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] Mozilla 0.8.1 for LM72 error messages
Dear friends: As I reported earlier, you can get Mozilla 0.8.1 (the latest March 26, 2001) version for LM72 (not for Cooker or LM8.0 directly from Texstar at: http://texstar.dyn.dhs.org I had no problem installing the Mozilla file itself. It installed with 50 perfect hashes. But I did get two error messages: 1) runtime mismatch 2) leaking context Could one of the gurus on our list please explain to us newbies what this is all about and whether it would be safe to use this version of Mozilla or whether it would be safer to use Mozilla 0.8 (from Feb. 17, 2001), also available, by the way, from the same site for LM72. Thank you so very much. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
