Re: PPC64 install && Firefox

> On Apr 8, 2024, at 1:02 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > On Mon, 2024-04-08 at 19:38 +1200, Mike Hosken wrote: >> As for Firefox thanks for the info, hopefully it will get fixed as it would >> make >> ppc64 still very useable in this modern era.

Re: PPC64 install && Firefox

Hi, Mike Hosken wrote: > When I burned it to a cd it didn’t boot. When I tried a dvd it did boot. That's strange. Do you still have that CD with the ISO on it ? If so, what do you get from a run of xorriso -indev /dev/sr0 -toc -report_system_area plain -check_media -- assumed that /dev/sr0

Re: PPC64 install && Firefox

here were 15 images released after that one: > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/ Not sure why you thought it's the latest one. > I ended up doing 6 installations overall, for testing purposes and it worked > well.  > > As for Firefox thanks for the info,

Re: PPC64 install && Firefox

purposes and it worked well. As for Firefox thanks for the info, hopefully it will get fixed as it would make ppc64 still very useable in this modern era. > On 8 Apr 2024, at 19:09, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > Hello, > >> On Mon, 2024-04-08 at 17:19 +1200, Mi

Re: PPC64 install && Firefox

s. The fix was simple and upon > reinstall > dpkg works as expected. I have run into this issue during a test installation as well, but I have not figured out yet what the problem is. > I installed xfce and noticed Firefox failed to launch with segmentation > errors also > the esr v

PPC64 install && Firefox

was simple and upon reinstall dpkg works as expected. I installed xfce and noticed Firefox failed to launch with segmentation errors also the esr version does the same. Upon further research I discovered others also have this problem. I tried building both versions from Sid but they both failed

Re: Please test Firefox on ppc64

s://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1845669 > > Adrian > Hi Adrian, I was just able to test it using an upgraded Debian Sid ppc64: It crashes because of: Thread 1 "firefox-esr" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. i32_load8_u (addr=2014643200, mem=) at rlbox.wasm.c:146 1

Re: Please test Firefox on ppc64

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 actual

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

Re: Please test Firefox on ppc64

illa.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

Re: Please test Firefox on ppc64

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 Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `'

Please test Firefox on ppc64

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

Re: enabling/disabling AltiVec in Firefox and derived browsers (ArcticFox)

On Saturday, March 6, 2021, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi Luke, > > > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> >> just to confirm: that's definitely "setting machine to capabilities that the machine doesn't have, then requesting that feature and gcc 10 says 'ok'" yes? >> >> i do not know the exact

Re: enabling/disabling AltiVec in Firefox and derived browsers (ArcticFox)

Hi Luke, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: just to confirm: that's definitely "setting machine to capabilities that the machine doesn't have, then requesting that feature and gcc 10 says 'ok'" yes? i do not know the exact machine, let us assume it is -mg3. the options being passed are

Re: enabling/disabling AltiVec in Firefox and derived browsers (ArcticFox)

On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > > On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > >> actually the original point is even for PPC32, note just PPC64. The >> configure check added by Adrian in Firefox checks if the compiler >&

Re: enabling/disabling AltiVec in Firefox and derived browsers (ArcticFox)

On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > actually the original point is even for PPC32, note just PPC64. The > configure check added by Adrian in Firefox checks if the compiler > accepts -maltivec and just enables it in the build. > However, this assumption is not correc

SIMD not present in Libre/Open hardware OpenPOWER implementations [was Re: enabling/disabling AltiVec in Firefox and derived browsers (ArcticFox)]

changing subject, for reference / background: * Paul Mackerras is working on an experimental branch to add VSX https://github.com/paulusmack/microwatt/blob/vecvsx/decode1.vhdl he was experimenting to see what was needed to get Fedora booting. the internal design is a Finite State Machine.

Re: enabling/disabling AltiVec in Firefox and derived browsers (ArcticFox)

course, there have been assumptions "#ifdef PPC64 equals > POWER9 therefore VSX" which are unfortunately creeping in ever since > EABI 2.0 came about? actually the original point is even for PPC32, note just PPC64. The configure check added by Adrian in Firefox checks if the com

Re: enabling/disabling AltiVec in Firefox and derived browsers (ArcticFox)

Hi Gabriel, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > This is going to be hopelessly slow. The point of SIMD is to process > quickly vast amounts of data, the overhead of every single emulated > instructions is counted in hundreds of cycles. > > IMHO, the only solution is to: > a) only use SIMD in library code >

Re: enabling/disabling AltiVec in Firefox and derived browsers (ArcticFox)

cpu=750 -mtune=750, but the compiler will accept -maltivec > and create an incompatible binary. I actually just tested and "debian shipped firefox" fires an illegal instruction on a G3, so it is having a similar issue than my own ArcticFox builds. I also did a test and tri

Re: enabling/disabling AltiVec in Firefox and derived browsers (ArcticFox)

On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 3:39 AM Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 11:52:12PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > On Monday, March 1, 2021, Riccardo Mottola > > wrote: > > ... > > Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho is currently working on glibc6 patches > > which reverse

enabling/disabling AltiVec in Firefox and derived browsers (ArcticFox)

On Monday, March 1, 2021, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 12:22:22PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> --- >> crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 >> >> On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 8:39 AM Gabriel Paubert wrote: >> >> > Beware that VSX

Re: enabling/disabling AltiVec in Firefox and derived browsers (ArcticFox)

On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 12:22:22PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > --- > crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 8:39 AM Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > > Beware that VSX is not Altivec. Altivec was called VMX by IBM and > > VSX

Re: enabling/disabling AltiVec in Firefox and derived browsers (ArcticFox)

--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 8:39 AM Gabriel Paubert wrote: > Beware that VSX is not Altivec. Altivec was called VMX by IBM and > VSX is a superset of Altivec (IIRC). > > G4 and G5 do not have VSX. apologies i tend to lump

Re: enabling/disabling AltiVec in Firefox and derived browsers (ArcticFox)

On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 11:52:12PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Monday, March 1, 2021, Riccardo Mottola > wrote: > > > A quick solution would to have this configure as a convenience, but have > a way to pass an --enable-altivec and -disable-altivec (or with/without?) >

enabling/disabling AltiVec in Firefox and derived browsers (ArcticFox)

On Monday, March 1, 2021, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > A quick solution would to have this configure as a convenience, but have a way to pass an --enable-altivec and -disable-altivec (or with/without?) parameter to configure. EABI v2.0 rather unfortunately, despite it being optional in the

enabling/disabling AltiVec in Firefox and derived browsers (ArcticFox)

Hello, I was checkin gout a specific patch Adrian made for Firefox, which should help building on non-Altivec capable CPUs. https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/commit/c6b39f0f902898988ca7793af56307640ff81362 I have imported it in ArcticFox with this commit and tested it. https://github.com

Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

On 3/7/19 8:21 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Ha. Let's not drag the SPARC world into this. In my opinion, based on > some twenty years of observational data, the only problem with SPARC > based systems is that they are horribly slow and run horribly hot while > costing horrible amounts of money.

Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

On 3/6/19 12:34 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 3/6/19 5:52 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> So would it be of value for me to fire up Debian buster or sid on a >> PowerMac G5 here and do some testing? Not sure where you are getting >> your Firefox from. Also is th

Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

On 3/6/19 5:52 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > So would it be of value for me to fire up Debian buster or sid on a > PowerMac G5 here and do some testing? Not sure where you are getting > your Firefox from. Also is that the nightly builds? We're building stock Debian packages from unstabl

Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

o would it be of value for me to fire up Debian buster or sid on a PowerMac G5 here and do some testing? Not sure where you are getting your Firefox from. Also is that the nightly builds? I currently am running 67.0a1 where about:buildconfig claims : https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/786

Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

On 3/5/19 8:58 AM, aggaz wrote: > Hello, browsing the mailing list archive I read that on December 2018 > people with a Macintosh G5 was kindly asked to try Fedora and OpenSUSE > to see if their GRUB works [1]. > > I was not member of the list at the time, but now I am. I have a > PowerMac G5

Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

Hello, browsing the mailing list archive I read that on December 2018 people with a Macintosh G5 was kindly asked to try Fedora and OpenSUSE to see if their GRUB works [1]. I was not member of the list at the time, but now I am. I have a PowerMac G5 late 2005 and if this kind of help/test is

Re: Enable GRUB installation for powerpc/ppc64 Macs (was: Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC)

Hi Frank, On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 10:38 PM Frank Scheiner wrote: > > Hi Adrian, > > On 12/11/18 00:00, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > @Frank: Could you repost your patches for grub-installer rebased for the > > current > > version? Maybe also include the ofpath script from the

Enable GRUB installation for powerpc/ppc64 Macs (was: Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC)

Hi Adrian, On 12/11/18 00:00, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: @Frank: Could you repost your patches for grub-installer rebased for the current version? Maybe also include the ofpath script from the yaboot package (download from

Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

Hi Christian (removing others who will read the reply on the ML) Christian Zigotzky wrote: > > Thanks for your reply. We get the error message 'Illegal instruction' > on the X5000. That means it doesn't start. Could you please compile it > without AltiVec (-maltivec -mabi=altivec)? I do not

Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

On 11 December 2018 at 7:04PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Hi Christian! Christian Zigotzky wrote: Many thanks for ArcticFox! I successfully tested it on my AmigaOne X1000 today. (64-bit 1.8 GHz dual-core PWRficient PA6T-1682M PowerPC with AltiVec) Screenshot of ArcticFox on Fienix (32-bit

Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

Hi Christian! Christian Zigotzky wrote: Many thanks for ArcticFox! I successfully tested it on my AmigaOne X1000 today. (64-bit 1.8 GHz dual-core PWRficient PA6T-1682M PowerPC with AltiVec) Screenshot of ArcticFox on Fienix (32-bit Debian based distribution with a 64-bit kernel):

Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

On 12/11/18 12:00 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 12/10/18 6:23 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: >> PS: Adrian, I hope you get out a new ISO soon, so I try reinstalling the >> iBook and test again :) I got the machine exactly for working on ArcticFox > > The problem is that we currently

Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

On 12/10/18 6:23 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > PS: Adrian, I hope you get out a new ISO soon, so I try reinstalling the > iBook and test again :) I got the machine exactly for working on ArcticFox The problem is that we currently don't have Yaboot in the archives which is required by the

Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

On 10 December 2018 at 6:23PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Hi, swamprock wrote: Meanwhile, there is a fork of Pale Moon 27.x called Arctic Fox that can be used on 32-bit PowerPC-https://github.com/wicknix/Arctic-Fox/ More

Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

Hi, swamprock wrote: Meanwhile, there is a fork of Pale Moon 27.x called Arctic Fox that can be used on 32-bit PowerPC-https://github.com/wicknix/Arctic-Fox/ More info:https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/arctic-fox-web-browser-for-10-6-32-64-bit.2133051/ I need to chime in, being one of

Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, December 10, 2018 10:41 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 12/10/18 4:37 PM, Christian Zigotzky wrote: > > > I am not sure if you know this website: > > https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wi

Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

On 12/10/18 4:37 PM, Christian Zigotzky wrote: > I am not sure if you know this website: > https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Porting/Firefox Nice. Looks like there hasn't been any work done on 32-Bit PowerPC yet though. In order to get Firefox working on 32-Bit PowerPC, someone needs to imp

News about Firefox for PowerPC

Hi All, I am not sure if you know this website: https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Porting/Firefox Many thanks to all for Debian PowerPC! :-) I use it with pleasure on my AmigaOnes. Cheers, Christian

Re: Firefox segfaults when I start it

On 08/27/2018 11:09 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 8/28/18 5:08 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Guess not. Explanation here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2017/12/msg00060.html Oh, FWIW, you need to install the version from experimental. # apt install firefox -t

Re: Firefox segfaults when I start it

On 8/28/18 5:08 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Guess not. > > Explanation here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2017/12/msg00060.html Oh, FWIW, you need to install the version from experimental. # apt install firefox -t=experimental Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adr

Re: Firefox segfaults when I start it

On 8/28/18 4:35 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > 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 o

Re: Firefox segfaults when I start it

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

Bug#889896: firefox: 59.0~b4-1

Source: firefox Version: 59.0~b4-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch User: debian-sp...@lists.debian.org Usertags: powerpc sparc64 Hi! On both powerpc and sparc64, firefox FTBFS because the compiler doesn't understand the flag -fno-lifetime-dse. This can be fixed with the following patch which

Re: Bug#888898: firefox: Please add patch for big-endian support

t correspond to BGRA or RGBA byte order" ^ With the patch, firefox_59 builds fine: Build Architecture: ppc64 Build Type: any Build-Space: 15897132 Build-Time: 1854 Distribution: sid Host Architecture: ppc64 Install-Time: 374 Job: /var/lib/buildd/firefox/firefox_59.0~b4-1.dsc Machine Archi

Bug#888898: firefox: Please add patch for big-endian support

Source: firefox Version: 59.0~b4-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch User: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Usertags: powerpc ppc64 Hello! src:firefox currently FTBFS on big-endian powerpc/ppc64 because skia needs to be patched to support big-endian systems [1]: n file included from /<>/gf

Bug#888638: firefox: FTBFS on powerpc and ppc64: Error updating ICU data file

Source: firefox Version: 58.0-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream User: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Usertags: powerpc ppc64 Builds of firefox for powerpc and ppc64 (the only big-endian architectures rustc supports at present, and admittedly not release architectures) have been failing lately

Bug#888635: firefox: FTBFS on ppc64el: jit unexpected alignment requirements

Source: firefox Version: 58.0-1 Severity: serious Tags: patch upstream Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past) User: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Usertags: ppc64el Control: forwarded -1 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1425413 Builds

Re: why firefox crash on debian ppc64

Hi Adrian, that issue https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269654 was never fixed, i reported many months ago (or year) and just made firefox slower but is not making the crash. Im using right now for writing here firefox 47 (with that issue present) from ubuntu but no problems

Bug#879497: firefox: FTBFS: Don't know how to translate powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu for rustc

Source: firefox Version: 56.0-2 Severity: normal User: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Usertags: ppc64 Hi! I bootstrapped rustc and cargo for ppc64 this weekend, so that the build dependencies for src:firefox are fulfilled on ppc64 again. Unfortunately, we are now running into the same problem

Re: why firefox crash on debian ppc64

On 10/22/2017 10:45 AM, luigi burdo wrote: > probably this small report can made understand one of the reason why firefox > crash on debian PPC64. > (...) > look  like the issue come on debian because a pipe error. No, it isn't. The log messages you provide don't reveal anything, you

why firefox crash on debian ppc64

I Adrian, probably this small report can made understand one of the reason why firefox crash on debian PPC64. Plus i made an experiment yesterday On this last sid i installed one of my archived firefox esr 45.x ( from old debian sid archive) that is working on others ppc64 distros (fedora

Re: Firefox-esr and qupzilla crash/exit under Debian 9 ppc64

> > There is a trace in the kernel log, with a blurb about "invalid signal > > > frame" and not much more. > > > > > > This is with v4.13/v4.14 kernels. > > > > Could you please report the bug with the content of syslog. > > I'm away

Re: Firefox-esr and qupzilla crash/exit under Debian 9 ppc64

gt; > > This is with v4.13/v4.14 kernels. > > Could you please report the bug with the content of syslog. I'm away from the machine until next Friday, and running firefox on remote display on a slow link is painful, to put it mildly. Gabriel

Re: Firefox-esr and qupzilla crash/exit under Debian 9 ppc64

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 12:40 PM, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 12:10:20PM +0200, Christian Zigotzky wrote: >> On 29 September 2017 at 11:42AM, Gabriel Paubert wrote: >> > Hi Christian, >> > >> > The right mouse button, i.e., the one that pops up a menu. >>

Re: Firefox-esr and qupzilla crash/exit under Debian 9 ppc64

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 12:10:20PM +0200, Christian Zigotzky wrote: > On 29 September 2017 at 11:42AM, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > Hi Christian, > > > > The right mouse button, i.e., the one that pops up a menu. > > > I understand. Yes, you're right. There is a problem. I can open the menu

Re: Firefox-esr and qupzilla crash/exit under Debian 9 ppc64

On 29 September 2017 at 11:42AM, Gabriel Paubert wrote: Hi Christian, The right mouse button, i.e., the one that pops up a menu. I understand. Yes, you're right. There is a problem. I can open the menu but selecting a menu point doesn't work. Thanks for the hint. -- Christian

Re: Firefox-esr and qupzilla crash/exit under Debian 9 ppc64

or info. The A-EON PowerPC machines use their own customized Linux > kernels and they don't need Grub, Yaboot or something like that for booting. > The firmwares boot the Linux kernels directly. Only FYI. > > I have posted a call to subscribe to the Firefox bug in the A-EON Linux PPC &g

Re: Firefox-esr and qupzilla crash/exit under Debian 9 ppc64

kernels directly. Only FYI. I have posted a call to subscribe to the Firefox bug in the A-EON Linux PPC support forum. [1] Cheers, Christian [1] http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/viewtopic.php?f=35=2453=42499#p42499 On 29 September 2017 at 11:03AM, Gabriel Paubert wrote: Do you also have

Re: Firefox-esr and qupzilla crash/exit under Debian 9 ppc64

On 09/29/2017 10:59 AM, Christian Zigotzky wrote: It's the same bug report. :-) Your first link is also correct. FWIW, please avoid posting messages like "I have the same problem, too", it just causes unnecessary noise. You should only post to bug reports when you have additional information

Re: Firefox-esr and qupzilla crash/exit under Debian 9 ppc64

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 10:06:08AM +0200, Christian Zigotzky wrote: > Hi All, > > I have Debian Sid PowerPC (PPC32) on my A-EON AmigaOne X1000 Nemo (P.A. Semi > PA6T). I have the same problems with Firefox ESR. > > Adrian, could you try to get in touch with the Firefox maintai

Re: Firefox-esr and qupzilla crash/exit under Debian 9 ppc64

A-EON AmigaOne X1000 Nemo (P.A. Semi PA6T). I have the same problems with Firefox ESR. Adrian, could you try to get in touch with the Firefox maintainer? I think you can better discuss with him about the problems. Thanks, Christian On 28.09.2017 23:59, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Sinan

Re: Firefox-esr and qupzilla crash/exit under Debian 9 ppc64

Adrian, It's the same bug report. :-) Your first link is also correct. Cheers, Christian On 29 September 2017 at 00:04AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 09/28/2017 11:59 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: [1] https://bug98304.bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269654 That link is

Re: Firefox-esr and qupzilla crash/exit under Debian 9 ppc64

Hi All, I have Debian Sid PowerPC (PPC32) on my A-EON AmigaOne X1000 Nemo (P.A. Semi PA6T). I have the same problems with Firefox ESR. Adrian, could you try to get in touch with the Firefox maintainer? I think you can better discuss with him about the problems. Thanks, Christian

Re: Firefox-esr and qupzilla crash/exit under Debian 9 ppc64

On 09/28/2017 11:59 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> [1] https://bug98304.bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269654 That link is bogus, sorry. Should be: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269654 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer -

Re: Firefox-esr and qupzilla crash/exit under Debian 9 ppc64

Hi Sinan! On 09/28/2017 09:22 PM, Sinan Gürkan wrote: > I am running Debian 9 ppc64 with Mate Desktop on A-Eon Cyrus X5000 (Freescale > P5020) > > Both Firefox-ESR and Qupzilla exits or crashes while browsing. You most likely ran into this upstream bug [1] which affects big-en

Firefox-esr and qupzilla crash/exit under Debian 9 ppc64

Dear all I am running Debian 9 ppc64 with Mate Desktop on A-Eon Cyrus X5000 (Freescale P5020) Both Firefox-ESR and Qupzilla exits or crashes while browsing. Here are the outputs in the terminal. Firefox-ESR: Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[0][GFX1]: Unknown image format 1 (t=4.70433

Re: Firefox 51.0.1-1 on Debian Sid/experimental PowerPC (PPC32): Segmentation fault

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 04:44:22PM -0500, wrote: > Well there does exist cheaper options, like the $4k T4240QDS-PB, which > is 12 core (24 threads) 1.8Ghz 64 bit powerpc. > > The P5040RDB is $3k for a quad core 64 bit powerpc. > > That's still not hobby level pricing though. Better than the

Re: Firefox 51.0.1-1 on Debian Sid/experimental PowerPC (PPC32): Segmentation fault

P5040 is much less then 3k in prize or there is P5020 too *cyrus plus or the old good G5 Quad.. it rulez today im writing right now from fedora 25 PPC64 firefox 51 and i dont miss a new gen machine. Work in full PPC64 made this machine really enjoyable. Luigi

Re: Firefox 51.0.1-1 on Debian Sid/experimental PowerPC (PPC32): Segmentation fault

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 10:44:57PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > As with all new languages it will take time, but eventually it will get > there, with a big IF. The biggest(only?) problem with PowerPC in > general right now is hardware availability not lack of interested > developers.

Re: Firefox 51.0.1-1 on Debian Sid/experimental PowerPC (PPC32): Segmentation fault

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/13/2017 09:44 PM, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > I'm not a compiler developer, but I've done my share of compiler > bootstrapping/bug reporting/bug fixing. Same here. I'm just more involved with gcc on targets like SH, sparc64 and m68k. >

Re: Firefox 51.0.1-1 on Debian Sid/experimental PowerPC (PPC32): Segmentation fault

Στις 13-02-2017, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 21:00 +0100, ο/η John Paul Adrian Glaubitz έγραψε: > I don't know whether you have already dealt with the internals of > compilers in the past, but I can tell you that it isn't a matter of > just "fixing" it. For it to work, someone actually has to maintain >

Re: Firefox 51.0.1-1 on Debian Sid/experimental PowerPC (PPC32): Segmentation fault

On 02/13/2017 08:26 PM, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: >> Yes. Everyone who is basing their work on Firefox will have to move >> to a different >> codebase from version 53 on or fork Firefox and continue without >> Rust. > > Or, fix Rust for powerpc? I don't know

Re: Firefox 51.0.1-1 on Debian Sid/experimental PowerPC (PPC32): Segmentation fault

Στις 13-02-2017, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 20:20 +0100, ο/η John Paul Adrian Glaubitz έγραψε: > Yes. Everyone who is basing their work on Firefox will have to move > to a different > codebase from version 53 on or fork Firefox and continue without > Rust. Or, fix Rust for powerpc? My 2c. Konstantinos

Re: Firefox 51.0.1-1 on Debian Sid/experimental PowerPC (PPC32): Segmentation fault

On 02/13/2017 01:25 PM, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. wrote: > This does not surprise me. It is a really sad case. Even the developer of the > TenFourFox port of FF knows that he will have to cease being code compatible. Yes. Everyone who is basing their work on Firefox will have t

Re: Firefox 51.0.1-1 on Debian Sid/experimental PowerPC (PPC32): Segmentation fault

13 febbraio 2017 11.49 > *A:* debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > *Oggetto:* Re: Firefox 51.0.1-1 on Debian Sid/experimental PowerPC > (PPC32): Segmentation fault > > Hi! > > On 02/06/2017 10:39 PM, Christian Zigotzky wrote: > > I installed Firefox 51.0.1-1 with 'apt-get install

Re: Firefox 51.0.1-1 on Debian Sid/experimental PowerPC (PPC32): Segmentation fault

It means all are killing us in all fronts. [☹] Luigi Da: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> Inviato: lunedì 13 febbraio 2017 11.49 A: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Oggetto: Re: Firefox 51.0.1-1 on Debian Sid/experimental PowerPC

Re: Firefox 51.0.1-1 on Debian Sid/experimental PowerPC (PPC32): Segmentation fault

Hi! On 02/06/2017 10:39 PM, Christian Zigotzky wrote: > I installed Firefox 51.0.1-1 with 'apt-get install -t experimental firefox' > on Debian Sid/experimental PowerPC (PPC32) today. Just as a warning in advance: Mozilla upstream has decided to make the Rust programming language man

Re: Firefox 51.0.1-1 on Debian Sid/experimental PowerPC (PPC32): Segmentation fault

Running debug now with the symbols. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 12, 2017, at 8:50 AM, Christian Zigotzky <chzigot...@xenosoft.de> > wrote: > > Hi Herminio, > > If you want to backtrace Firefox, then you need the debug version of Firefox. > Please add the followin

Re: Firefox 51.0.1-1 on Debian Sid/experimental PowerPC (PPC32): Segmentation fault

Will do. Anything to help. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 12, 2017, at 8:50 AM, Christian Zigotzky <chzigot...@xenosoft.de> > wrote: > > Hi Herminio, > > If you want to backtrace Firefox, then you need the debug version of Firefox. > Please add the following re

Re: Firefox 51.0.1-1 on Debian Sid/experimental PowerPC (PPC32): Segmentation fault

Hi Herminio, If you want to backtrace Firefox, then you need the debug version of Firefox. Please add the following repositories to your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://debug.mirrors.debian.org/debian-debug/ unstable-debug main deb http://debug.mirrors.debian.org/debian-debug/ experimental

Re: Firefox 51.0.1-1 on Debian Sid/experimental PowerPC (PPC32): Segmentation fault

You are right. I will install them and run again. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 12, 2017, at 2:18 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > >> On 02/12/2017 08:37 AM, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. wrote: >> I ran firefox 51 on my iBook G4 run

Re: Firefox 51.0.1-1 on Debian Sid/experimental PowerPC (PPC32): Segmentation fault

<glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> ha scritto: > >> On 02/12/2017 08:37 AM, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. wrote: >> I ran firefox 51 on my iBook G4 running Sid. I was able to get a backtrace. >> I am posting it here. > > This backtrace is not usable, it doesn't contains a

Re: Firefox 51.0.1-1 on Debian Sid/experimental PowerPC (PPC32): Segmentation fault

On 02/12/2017 08:37 AM, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. wrote: > I ran firefox 51 on my iBook G4 running Sid. I was able to get a backtrace. I > am posting it here. This backtrace is not usable, it doesn't contains any symbols: Thread 1 "firefox.real" received signal SIGSEGV, Se

Re: Firefox 51.0.1-1 on Debian Sid/experimental PowerPC (PPC32): Segmentation fault

Thank you! :-) -- Christian Sent from my iPhone > On 12 Feb 2017, at 08:37, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. > <herminio.hernande...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I ran firefox 51 on my iBook G4 running Sid. I was able to get a backtrace. I > am posting it here. > > Herminio >

Re: Firefox 51.0.1-1 on Debian Sid/experimental PowerPC (PPC32): Segmentation fault

I ran firefox 51 on my iBook G4 running Sid. I was able to get a backtrace. I am posting it here. Herminio On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 12:49 AM, Christian Zigotzky <chzigot...@xenosoft.de> wrote: > Could someone also test Firefox 51.0.1-1? My gdb closes after the command > 'run'. >

Re: Firefox 51.0.1-1 on Debian Sid/experimental PowerPC (PPC32): Segmentation fault

On 07/02/17 08:04 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 02/07/2017 12:02 AM, Christian Zigotzky wrote: >> (gdb) run >> >> Starting program: /usr/lib/firefox/./firefox >> warning: Could not load shared library symbols for linux-vdso32.so.1. >> Do you need "

Re: Firefox 51.0.1-1 on Debian Sid/experimental PowerPC (PPC32): Segmentation fault

Could someone also test Firefox 51.0.1-1? My gdb closes after the command 'run'. -- Christian Sent from my iPhone > On 7 Feb 2017, at 00:09, Christian Zigotzky <chzigot...@xenosoft.de> wrote: > > Unfortunately, gdb has closed after the command 'run'. It's not possible to &g

Re: Firefox 51.0.1-1 on Debian Sid/experimental PowerPC (PPC32): Segmentation fault

On 02/07/2017 06:16 AM, Herminio Hernandez Jr. wrote: > Isn't there a logging feature that will capture it? You don't get the backtrace from these logs. You need gdb for that. -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin

Re: Firefox 51.0.1-1 on Debian Sid/experimental PowerPC (PPC32): Segmentation fault

7 February 2017 at 12:04 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >>> On 02/07/2017 12:02 AM, Christian Zigotzky wrote: >>> (gdb) run >>> >>> Starting program: /usr/lib/firefox/./firefox >>> warning: Could not load shared library symbols for linux-vdso32.so.

Firefox 51.0.1-1 on Debian Sid/experimental PowerPC (PPC32): Segmentation fault

Unfortunately, gdb has closed after the command 'run'. It's not possible to get a backtrace. On 07 February 2017 at 12:04 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 02/07/2017 12:02 AM, Christian Zigotzky wrote: (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/lib/firefox/./firefox warning: Could not load

Firefox 51.0.1-1 on Debian Sid/experimental PowerPC (PPC32): Segmentation fault

Hi Adrian, apt-get install -t experimental firefox-dbgsym Preparing to unpack .../firefox-dbgsym_51.0.1-1_powerpc.deb ... Unpacking firefox-dbgsym (51.0.1-1) ... Setting up firefox-dbgsym (51.0.1-1) ... apt-get install -t experimental firefox-dev-dbgsym Setting up firefox-dev (51.0.1-1

Re: Firefox 51.0.1-1 on Debian Sid/experimental PowerPC (PPC32): Segmentation fault

On 02/07/2017 12:02 AM, Christian Zigotzky wrote: > (gdb) run > > Starting program: /usr/lib/firefox/./firefox > warning: Could not load shared library symbols for linux-vdso32.so.1. > Do you need "set solib-search-path" or "set sysroot"? > [Thread debuggi

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