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Re: Firefox trouble



On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 4:57 PM Connor McLaughlan <cont6pro3@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> First i tried to install firefox and it reported the uninstallable dependencies:
>
> root@SunBlade100:/usr/pkgsrc# aptitude install firefox
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   firefox{b} libjsoncpp1{a}
> 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 87 not upgraded.
> Need to get 34.8 MB of archives. After unpacking 152 MB will be used.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  firefox : Depends: libevent-2.1-6 (>= 2.1.8-stable) which is a
> virtual package and is not provided by any available package
>
>            Depends: libffi6 (>= 3.0.4) which is a virtual package and
> is not provided by any available package
>
>            Depends: libvpx5 (>= 1.6.0) which is a virtual package and
> is not provided by any available package
>
> The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
>
>      Keep the following packages at their current version:
> 1)     firefox [Not Installed]
>
> Then i fetched these dependencies from snapshot, and installed them
> together with firefox.
> I used these:
>
> https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-ports/20170801T005203Z/pool-sparc64/main/libe/libevent/libevent-2.1-6_2.1.8-stable-4_sparc64.deb
> https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-ports/20160224T140706Z/pool-sparc64/main/libf/libffi/libffi6_3.3%7E20160224-1_sparc64.deb
> https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-ports/20180217T200112Z/pool-sparc64/main/libv/libvpx/libvpx5_1.7.0-3_sparc64.deb
>
> When i start firefox, i get:
> Segmentation fault

gdb tells:

Reading symbols from firefox...
(No debugging symbols found in firefox)
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/firefox
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/sparc64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".

Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
0xfffff801068b0754 in ?? () from /lib/sparc64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.1
(gdb)


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