Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 22:10:43 +0200 From: hw <hw@adminart.net> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: hw <hw@gc-24.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox or what? Message-ID: <87sgq616ws.fsf@toy.adminart.net> In-Reply-To: <20190812182109.634721dd.freebsd@edvax.de> (Polytropon's message of "Mon, 12 Aug 2019 18:21:09 %2B0200") References: <20190812173754.9bbd34f75885d616ae5d074a@gc-24.de> <20190812182109.634721dd.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> writes: > On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 17:37:54 +0200, hw wrote: >> Hi, >> >> does any of the Firefox versions that can be installed with pkg >> actually work? Firefix continues to freeze, crash, being unable to >> remember its settings, to not show up at all when starting it other >> than in the process list, and it usually can't be killed even with >> kill -9. > > I have a FreeBSD 12.0-p7/i386 installation running Firefox 68.0, > and I don't have any problems. I even tried "modern" web pages, > and even though Firefox sometimes seems to run a bit too slow, > no crashes or freezes. > > But what you're describing rings a bell. > > Just to make sure you're not suffering from an inconsistent > file system, boot your system in single-user mode and perform > a forced full fsck on all filesystems, especially those carrying > /usr/local and /home. Make sure you have the following setting > in /etc/rc.conf: > > background_fsck="NO" > > Inconsistent file system can definitely cause the kind of problem > you're seeing, so make sure it's not the case. > > NB: Does only apply to UFS. ;-) The /home directories are on the NFS server wich uses xfs on hardware RAID, and they work fine with the Linux version of Firefox when mounted by a Debian server. Other than that, you're right, the broken NFS implementation of FreeBSD kinda simulates a corrupt file system. >> If Firefox is incompatible with FreeBSD, what's the alternative? > > It isn't. Things that do not build or run on FreeBSD are either > marked "BROKEN", or aren't part of the ports collection. NFS should be marked BROKEN then. It's not only limited to exporting whole file systems, a bug which makes it unusable for almost everything, it is also unable to handle file locks. I will have to re-evaluate if it's a good idea to use FreeBSD for DNS servers. I'll probably be better off using Centos for that like for everything else.
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