Daniel,

It might be waiting for DNS timeouts.  Make sure you have DNS_SERVER set
in your lts.conf file.

Also, keep in mind the J-125 only has 32 or 64mb of ram, and the cpu is
a whimply little 300mhz thing.  The newer workstations are MUCH more
powerful for this type of thing.

Jim McQuillan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Daniel Ramaley wrote:

> 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.
>
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> (515) 271-1934
> Cowles Library 140, Drake University
>
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