Re: Firefox-esr and qupzilla crash/exit under Debian 9 ppc64
On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 10:06:08AM +0200, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have Debian Sid PowerPC (PPC32) on my A-EON AmigaOne X1000 Nemo (P.A. Semi
> PA6T). I have the same problems with Firefox ESR.
>
> Adrian, could you try to get in touch with the Firefox maintainer? I think
> you can better discuss with him about the problems.
Do you also have the problem of FireFix exiting with corrupt signal
frame or a similar message when clicking on the right button under
FireFox?
It might be signal handling kernel bug on recent kernels, I don't know.
But it's very easily reproducible (read: alsmot systematic) on my ppc64
machine with 32 bit userspace.
Gabriel
>
> Thanks,
> Christian
>
> On 28.09.2017 23:59, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > Hi Sinan!
> >
> > On 09/28/2017 09:22 PM, Sinan Gürkan wrote:
> > > I am running Debian 9 ppc64 with Mate Desktop on A-Eon Cyrus X5000 (Freescale P5020)
> > >
> > > Both Firefox-ESR and Qupzilla exits or crashes while browsing.
> > You most likely ran into this upstream bug [1] which affects big-endian
> > systems. As far as I can see, there is no new solution yet so it might
> > be a good idea for you to subscribe to this bug report.
> >
> > Unfortunately, Firefox upstream doesn't care much about big-endian systems
> > so they are knowingly accepting patches that causes these regressions. And
> > even if we had a patch to address this issue, we still have the problem
> > that Debian's Firefox maintainer is not very responsive when it comes
> > to patches to address issues on Debian Ports architectures. My patches
> > to fix firefox-esr on m68k, sh4 and sparc64, for example, have still not
> > been merged :(.
> >
> > Debian's Thunderbird maintainer is more welcoming in this regard and he's
> > always happy to merge patches that fix issues on Debian Ports architectures
> > and since Thunderbird is based on Firefox, you might be seeing this
> > crash there as well.
> >
> > Adrian
> >
> > > [1] https://bug98304.bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269654
>
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