I've gotten Firefox to run! Well, sort of. It loads... eventually. I haven't timed it, but i think it is on the order of 10 minutes. The machine i'm running on isn't real fast, but it should certainly load it faster than that (the machine is a Disklessworkstations.com Jammin 125). Is there a trick to making Firefox load faster? I did an strace and it seems to hang for a long time on a wait4 call.
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 10:46 am, you wrote: >Daniel, > >"strace" is your friend here. You can use it to trace the execution > of firefox. It will spit out WAY more info than you need, but give > it a try, and see what it shows. usually, the last 100 or so lines > will give a pretty good idea of what it was doing when it failed. > >Jim McQuillan >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Daniel Ramaley wrote: >> So far i've gotten Firefox installed (I downloaded it from >> mozilla.org, installed to /usr/local/firefox, then moved it to the >> LTSP server). I resolved all of its dependencies by copying library >> files from another machine and rebuilding the ld.so.cache that the >> clients see. However, when i run Firefox it just dies. I have X >> start up with the Blackbox window manager and a single xterm (for >> testing). From /proc/meminfo i can see that there is 28 MB RAM and >> 64 MB swap free, which should be enough to get Firefox going. But >> when i run /usr/local/firefox/firefox, it appears to be running, but >> after a minute of not displaying anything i am dropped back to the >> command prompt and Firefox isn't in the process list. Is there >> something else i need to do for Firefox besides copying libraries it >> depends on? >> >> On Tuesday 01 February 2005 09:41 am, you wrote: >> >Daniel, >> > >> >We don't have a firefox package yet. It's on my list, but i've >> > just not gotten that far yet. >> > >> >I have heard reports from several people who are running a local >> >firefox. >> > >> >And, i've run it myself. I just stole the binaries and libraries >> > from the host system. It took a while to get all the libraries, >> > but 'ldd' and 'strace' are your friend, when figuring out the >> > required libs and config files. >> > >> >Jim McQuillan >> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> >On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Daniel Ramaley wrote: >> >> Is there a canonical way to do local applications with LTSP 4.1? >> >> With LTSP 3 there were local_apps and local_netscape packages >> >> that made it relatively easy. I see no equivalent packages as >> >> part of LTSP 4.1. I want to get Firefox running as a local app. >> >> I've started working on it, but Firefox requires libraries that >> >> aren't in LTSP. Before i break out the compiler i was just >> >> wondering if there is an easier way. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dan Ramaley Digital Media Library Specialist (515) 271-1934 Cowles Library 140, Drake University ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
