ports/138752: www/linux-opera does not start

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:03:32 -0500
> From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7 at cox.net>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation at freebsd.org
> 
> On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 05:40:07 -0500, Heino Tiedemann <rotkap at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > The following reply was made to PR ports/138752; it has been noted by  
> > GNATS.
> >
> > From: Heino Tiedemann <rotkap at gmx.de>
> > To: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7 at cox.net>
> > Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org,  emulation at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: ports/138752: www/linux-opera does not start
> > Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:33:59 +0200
> >
> >  "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:44:48 -0500, Heino Tiedemann <rotkap at gmx.de>  
> > wrote:
> >  >
> >  >> "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:
> >  >>
> >  >>> Can you show me the output of 'pkg_info -IX linux' and 'sysctl
> >  >>> compat.linux'?
> >  >>
> >  >>
> >  >> yes, of course..
> >  >
> >  > Thanks.
> >  >
> >  >> ,----[ pkg_info -IX linux ]
> >  > <snip>
> >  >> | linux_base-fc-4_15  Base set of packages needed in Linux mode (for
> >  >> i386/amd64)
> >  >> `----
> >  >
> >  > I have linux_base-f8-8_10 installed here.
> >
> >  If Opera needs that vesion, why is the opera port not depending on
> >  that version?
> 
> You have snipped out my previous comment. I said:
> 
> ------------------------
> It looks like Opera now required glibc 2.4, which is available in f8 but  
> dunno about f6. I will have to uninstall all of my linux_* ports and test  
> it with linux_base-f6 to see if it will working. For I can edit the  
> USE_LINUX in the Makefile by change from 'yes' to '6', '7' or else what it  
> required.
> ------------------------
> 
> It means: I just found out linux-opera now required glibc 2.4, so I am  
> working on it to make the change of version requirement correct.
> 
> > can I just switch from fc-4_15 to f8-8_10?
> 
> Yes, since you have FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE.
> 
> > Are there reasons against switching?
> 
> Not that I know of.
> 
> > I am using portupgrade, this should do it:
> > portupgrade -o emulators/linux_base-f8 emulators/linux_base-fc4
> > Is that right?

I'd recommend emulators/linux_base-f10. That is the default in V8.0 and
Flash10 will work with it on 7.2. Older versions all have issues with
sound with older versions and none are being updated, so security
vulnerabilities don't get fixed.

I am running f10 on my one remaining 7.2 system and everything seems to
be working fine.
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