Re: Mozilla Problems on Debian-Alpha
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
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