Re: Firefox trouble
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 11:54 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> On 7/14/20 11:47 PM, Connor McLaughlan wrote:
> > I have also tried these version now - all segfaulting:
> >
> > firefox_59.0~b4-1_sparc64.deb
> > firefox-esr_60.2.0esr-1_sparc64.deb
> > firefox-esr_60.8.0esr-1_sparc64.deb
> >
> > I know that the latest firefox working on netbsd sparc64 is 52, so i
> > wonder if this is different for linux?
> > Unfortunately it seems during the time firefox 52 was available on
> > debian, there were no builds made for sparc64.
> >
> > Is someone still browsing the web with their sparc boxes on a recent
> > debian? If so, what browser are you using?
>
> Have you verified the RAM in the machine is working fine?
>
> As I said before, the JavaScript engine is invoked during build
> that indicates that its generally working.
>
> If it's not hardware-related, it's an issue in another package.
>
I doubt that it is a hardware failure. Firefox also segfaults on qemu-sparc64.
Also firefox52 on netbsd is working on this machine, but of course you
can't compare this.
And i couldn't find firefox52 for debian sparc64.
Regards,
Connor
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