Linux Firefox on FreeBSD-7.2-STABLE

[Martin Cracauer]

So, I am not as doomed as I thought, but the situation isn't good.

Martin Cracauer wrote on Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:26:59AM -0400: 
> I might miss something here, but I find myself knocked out of
> firefoxes on FreeBSD-7.2 now.
> 
> Firefox-2.x had an autoupdate and since then requires gtk-2.10.  My F8
> linux_base only has 2.6.

What happened here is that the autoupdate brought me away from a
firefox-2.x to a Firefox-3.x.  After downgrading to the latest 2.x I
can now run again, with linux_base-f8.  That's far from optimal but
better than nothing.

> I then moved over the whole 32 chroot I use on Linux (Debian-stable
> i386) using Firefox-3.5b4.  This one isn't stable on FreeBSD-7.2.  It
> hangs on a regular basis which I tend to blame on some
> threading/concurrency problem (probability of hang is obviously
> related to amount of concurrent activity).  I backed out all emulation
> kernel changes I have but no change.

No progress on this.  As far as I can tell, the Linuxulator in
7.2-stable is not up to running Firefox-3.5b<x>, and it seems to be
from threading problems (hangs, no segfault), which are hard to
debug.

I should probably try a different Linux base than I have in this
chroot (to shake versions of the glibc thread libs a bit).  But since
f8 won't do it I have to move someplace else here.

Martin
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