Some Linux Applications Have Been on Strike

[Neal Delmonico]

Intron is my alias on the Internet wrote:

> Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>
>> Quoting Intron is my alias in the Internet <mag at intron.ac> (from 
>> Thu,  17 Aug 2006 07:53:48 +0800):
>>
>>> Some Linux applications have been on strike against new Linuxolator
>>> (sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16) and new ports (linux_base-fc-4_7
>>> and linux-xorg-libs-6.8.2_5).
>>>
>>> Mozilla 1.7.12
>>> Firefox 1.0.7
>>
>>
>> Great! 2 Open Source applications which exhibit the bugs. Now Roman  
>> can compile a debug version of one of them and try to track down 
>> where  it breaks. Thanks for the report!
>>
>>> Adobe Reader 7.0.8
>>
>>
>> But not for all PDF files. I have some files which work just fine, 
>> and  some files which immediatly trigger the bug. Starting acroread 
>> without  any filename on the command line worked just fine every time 
>> for me.
>>
>>> At the same time, Firefox 1.5.0.6 goes out on strike from time to time.
>>
>>
>> Roman reported to me it works for him. Can you please provided use  
>> cases where it doesn't work?
>>
>> Bye,
>> Alexander.
>>
>> -- 
>> We are not loved by our friends for what we are;
>> rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.
>>         -- Victor Hugo
>>
>> http://www.Leidinger.net    Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7
>> http://www.FreeBSD.org       netchild @ FreeBSD.org  : PGP ID = 72077137
>>
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>
>
> My running environment:
> 1. CVSup-ed source tree and port tree on August 15th 12:20 (calculated 
> for
>     GMT)
> 2. sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16
> 3. New ports: linux_base-fc-4_7, linux-xorg-libs-6.8.2_5,
>    linux-gtk-1.2.10_4 and linux-gtk2-2.6.10
>
> Here, Adobe Reader 7.0.8 doesn't work at all but its beautiful Adobe 
> Logo.
> Mozilla 1.7.12 (GTK 1) and Firefox 1.0.7 (GTK 2) don't work at all but
> their corpse processes. Firefox 1.5.0.6 (GTK 2) works occasionally, so 
> that
> I can write mail to you in it.
>
> I'm afraid that debugging those large programs is difficult. Their strike
> probably has something to do with userland runtime libraries such as 
> GLIBC
> and XLib.
>
> I don't know the meaning of kernel messages:
>
> second wakeup
> second wakeup
> second wakeup
> second wakeup
> second wakeup
> second wakeup
> second wakeup
> second wakeup
>
These programs do not work on my system either. Same setup as Intron's.  
I don't even get the Adobe Logo.  Someone mentioned before that the 
offending file was known, but that how it was offending wasn't known.  I 
assume there has been no progress on that.  Glad to help if I can.

Best

Neal