On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 02:00:14AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 08:12:56PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > Ken Moffat wrote: > > > [ re my xulrunner/firefox issue on LFS-6.6 ] > > > Personally, LFS-7.0 is my cut off. > > > > I said in the past that I would try a "long term > support" build on 6.6. In fact, it's almost impossible to keep the > desktop packages updated for known vulnerabilities there, too much > has changed and I'm not going to do a general rebuild.
Finally came back to this (for some reason, the idea of debugging and then having to rebuild things on what is now a very slow machine isn't appealing :) Tried strace, but using -f to debug xulrunner (instead of firefox itself) didn't wholly work - I couldn't click on the buttons in the dialogs (e.g. restore / don't restore). However, trying this repeatedly I got a dialog suggesting a plugin might be involved, and asking if I wanted to start in safe mode. Again couldn't click on it, nor dismiss it while running under strace -f. Looked at the plugins - as well as (current) gnash, there were totem plugins. Moved them all out of the way, firefox worked. Reinstated the gnash plugin, firefox still works (so does the plugin). After that I took a look at totem : it's a 2.30 version - on this old system I don't think there is much point me rebuilding the totem plugins (totem itself is still fine). I guess something between ff 14 and ff 15 changed. Anyway, 15.0 is now working fine on a base of LFS-6.6 with many packages not updated. I suppose the lesson is that a newer version of firefox can require all plugins to be rebuilt - in the past I've rebuilt anything linking to libcrmf, and now I rebuild gnash, but obviously that isn't always enough. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
