[parisc-linux] New year, new try : Mozilla & friends...

[parisc-linux] New year, new try : Mozilla & friends...

[Christian Suder]

Hello everybody,

I apologize in advance for bringing up this topic again, I'm just a user
who wants a good web browser... ;-) 

Mozilla/skipstone/galeon are part of the distribution (even in 'stable')
for a while now, but crash straightaway with page faults. 

Has anybody ever looked into where the problems here are ? There is a
couple of other applications that have issues too, that may or may not be
related. Dillo e.g. (which by far is not as feature rich as the others)
needs to be started a number of times until the DNS thread works. Sylpheed
and pan start on a local display, but not on a remote display (strace
shows it loops forever somewhere). 

The browser situation is quite a bummer, I think, because the machines
would be much more useable for "general use". Otherwise the port is
excellent in terms of stability and hardware support achieved so far.
Great work !

Thx,
	Christian 

Re: [parisc-linux] New year, new try : Mozilla & friends...

[Thibaut VARENE]

On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 23:07:05 -0800
"Christian Suder" <csuder@cisco.com> wrote:
> 
> Mozilla/skipstone/galeon are part of the distribution (even in 'stable')
> for a while now, but crash straightaway with page faults. 
> 
> Has anybody ever looked into where the problems here are ? There is a
> couple of other applications that have issues too, that may or may not be

Well, it's an old "feature" of hppa platform ;)

IIRC, all these problems are compiler-related stuff. Maybe with the new toolchain we will get rid of them...

/me pokes at toolchain-gurus for advice :^)


Thibaut VARENE
The PA/Linux ESIEE Team
http://pateam.esiee.fr/