[26651] in Athena Bugs
Re: firefox borken on athena 9.3, both solaris and linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Oct 7 01:27:32 2005
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
To: Larry Stone <lcs@mit.edu>
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I've cc'd cfdoming@mit.edu, who seems to have done the most recent bit
of locker maintenance.
The 1.0.6 install was done in mid-July, and I'd be a little surprised if
it was done against 9.4 without any comcomitant bug reports, so I'm a
little surprised that it doesn't seem t owork. If that turns out to be
a testing error, it might be relatively easy to restore functionality
under 9.3 by replacing the i386_rhel3 and sun4x_59 arch directory trees
with ones which only contain the 1.0.6 version.
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 23:04 -0400, Larry Stone wrote:
> firefox from the firefox locker fails to start on athena 9.3, both linux
> and solaris platforms, but still works on 9.4 linux.
>
> On 9.3 solaris the "firefox" command simply exits with status 137
> without printing anything - some analysis shows it seems to be
> missing shared libraries, because the binary was built on a later OS.
>
> On 9.3 linux it also exits without printing anything with a status of 1.
>
> I get the same results trying firefox 1.0.6.
>
> I realize there's very little chance anyone reading this will actually
> care; if there is anyone who would, please forward it appropriately.
> I also wrote to the address in the firefox locker's README but often those
> are out of date.
>
> thanks,
>
> -- Larry
>
