[Fink-devel] Some observations on Gnome on Intel Macs

[Daniel Johnson]

I've successfully built all of bundle-gnome on Intel and most things even work! I also tried some other gnome-using programs like gnumeric, abiword, conglomerate, and bluefish-gnome2 successfully.

Command: firefox-bin
Path:    /sw/lib/firefox/firefox-bin
Parent:  sh [466]

Version: ??? (???)

PID:    471
Thread: 0

Exception:  EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (0x0002)
Code[0]:    0x0000000d
Code[1]:    0x00000000


Thread 0 Crashed:
0   dyld                0x8fe136e4 stub_binding_helper_interface + 18
1   <<00000000>>    0x00000000 0 + 0
2   libxpconnect.dylib  0x02ca30fa NSGetModule + 28198
3   libxpconnect.dylib  0x02c9e96f NSGetModule + 9883
4   libxpcom.dylib      0x00255b4e XPTC_InvokeByIndex + 246
5   libxpcom.dylib      0x00255cb5 nsXPTCStubBase::Stub4() + 27
6   libxpconnect.dylib  0x02cb24a2 NSGetModule + 90574
7   libxpconnect.dylib  0x02cb2785 NSGetModule + 91313
8   libxpconnect.dylib  0x02cb057f NSGetModule + 82603

12  libxpcom.dylib      0x00207ad9 NS_InitXPCOM2 + 1165
13  firefox-bin         0x000024a5 ScopedXPCOMStartup::Initialize() + 43

16  firefox-bin         0x000022de main + 40
17  firefox-bin         0x0000225e start + 270
18  firefox-bin         0x00002179 start + 41





2004-11-16  Mark McLoughlin  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

        Remove the vfolder and cdemenu methods - the panel and
        control-center now use libgnome-menu for accessing
        the menus.



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Daniel Johnson
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There are two issues I've encountered. Mozilla and firefox both crash on launch with backtraces like the following: 9 libxpcom.dylib 0x0023635e nsComponentManagerImpl::AutoRegisterNonNativeComponents(nsIFile*) + 270 10 libxpcom.dylib 0x00236eec nsComponentManagerImpl::AutoRegisterImpl(int, nsIFile*, int) + 780 11 libxpcom.dylib 0x0023708f nsComponentManagerImpl::AutoRegister(nsIFile*) + 137 14 firefox-bin 0x0000486f ScopedXPCOMStartup::SetWindowCreator(nsINativeAppSupport*) + 2811 15 firefox-bin 0x00005873 xre_main(int, char**, nsXREAppData const*) + 2245 So it's failing to load external modules, apparently. I haven't look at this too closely yet. Of course, anything using either of these, like yelp and the gnome help system, won't work. The other issue is with control-center2 and gnome-panel. Control center is crashing because it can't find any of the preference programs, although those programs exist and can be run manually. Gnome panel can't load applets or find any applications; the applications menu is empty. They're asking gnome-vfs2 how to find these resources, but gnome-vfs2 doesn't know what they're talking about. And now I know why. From the gnome-vfs2 ChangeLog: The issue is that gnome-vfs2 2.10.x is too new for control-center2 and gnome-panel which are both 2.6.x. The methods they rely on no longer exist.

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