On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 21:41, Rob Thyssen wrote: > Hello all, > > First of all thanks to everyone who contributes to Debian Alpha. I still find > it bewildering that there is so much support and help available for open > source in general and have yet to work out how I can contribute something > back to the community with my limited knowledge of things geeky. > > I did a bog-standard install of Debian Woody on a dual processor, Digital > Alpha 5305. At the installer prompt I declined to use the package selectors > because I wanted a dist-upgrade to testing. After the dist-upgrade I set > apt.conf to unstable and "apt-got" kde 3.1. > > I ran apt-get install mozilla which worked fine, I set the sound wrapper to > none in debconf, because I haven't installed a sound card. When I try to run > Mozilla from the kde panel the little icon does it's flicker stuff and then > disappears without Moz loading up. Normally when I run into an app that does > this, I just run it from a terminal and work out what to do from the error > messages that ensue. But Moz doesn't give me an error message even if run > from the shell. It just doesn't load. So I don't really know what to do or > what's gone wrong. Is there an error log I should check or does anybody know > if there's something else I should've done? Any comments or help is much > appreciated.
If you've got the very newest version from unstable, it may be due to a patch which was recently applied to the Alpha builds so solve build problems with gcc 3.x. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=192274 and http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86446 Falk Hueffner has reported this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=198555 Cheers, Jens
