[26652] in Athena Bugs
Re: firefox borken on athena 9.3, both solaris and linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles F Dominguez)
Fri Oct 7 14:44:05 2005
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I've changed the 1.0.7 binary to one that should work better with 9.3.
Let me know if it works OK-- I don't have a 9.3 machine of my own to
test against.
The 1.0.6 install was done against 9.3, which was the current version at
the time, so I'm baffled that it doesn't work for you. I've verified the
permissions are set properly, so give it another try.
As an aside, is there a particular reason why these machines haven't
been updated to Athena 9.4?
-Charles
Greg Hudson wrote:
> 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are out of date.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
>>
