@John: Thanks for the follow-up . . . appreciate the suggestion on downgrading; however it seemed that there was some problem with Midori as well . . . ??? Not a whole lot of options for browsers in PPC . . . hopefully FF will pull itself together.
F On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 6:20 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < [email protected]> wrote: > As you can see in the linked upstream bug report, Firefox is currently > broken on all big-endian architectures. The only known workaround for > this is currently downgrading to Firefox 44. > > Adrian > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1583849 > > Title: > dist-upgrade & FF upgrade breaks FF & Midori 16.04 PPC > > Status in Mozilla Firefox: > Confirmed > Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: > New > > Bug description: > OK, the reason I'm posting back here, running Lu 16.04 on an PPC > iBook, and MATE/XFCE 16.04 on a PM ST. . . did a dist-upgrade today, > so it now running the new "22" kernel and saw in the list of upgrades > new updates to FF and T-bird . . . on both machines after reboot FF > window frame loads . . . and then crashes . . . no data is ever filled > into the browser window. > > The iBook error says it "doesn't have enough memory to report the > problem" . . . and on the PM . . . apparently it says the error report > was "corrupted" . . . no launchpad window opened in the browser when I > clicked on the "report the problem." > > Tried to revert to the old kernel in the iBook several times, > seemingly failed to boot the old one . . . shut it down. > > I went to the PM running 16.04 U-MATE and tried the same dist-upgrade > via console there, that upgrade was much larger than the Lu system, > but subsequently FF also then failed to launch w/o crashing . . . > installed Midori to make an apple user post, but when I tried to start > a new thread there Midori crashed as well. > > I ran "apt-get -f install" in both the iBook & the PM . . . nothing > showed up. No "comment" in the terminal during the upgrade asking any > questions or reporting "problems" . . . but FF is kaput!!!! > > I'm back in OSX 10.5 side until things cool down for the browsers in > 16.04 PPC Lu & U-MATE/XFCE. > > e... > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1583849/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1583849 Title: dist-upgrade & FF upgrade breaks FF & Midori 16.04 PPC To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1583849/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
