Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 17:51:55 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: report: Netscape 6, prerelease3 Message-ID: <20001006175154.B252@parish> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10010052327220.54697-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>; from julian@elischer.org on Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:40:08PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10010052327220.54697-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:40:08PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
>
> Downloaded the required libs first (see dependencies in netscape6 (PR1)
> port)
>
> then downloaded the installer (very quick... it's small compared to
> netscape)
>
> ran it.
> it produced a window (I guess you need to run X before running it)
> and downloaded a LOT of stuff. hey
> appeared in a temporary directory in /var/tmp
> (on my system) (/tmp points there so I don't know where it THOUGHT it was
> puting them...)
> the files have an extension of .xpi, but 'file' reports them as ZIP files.
> and unzip can read them.
> as it started to unpack the files, the installer core-dumped with
> a seg-fault so instalation stopped.
>
> I unpacked the rest of the .xpi files (using unzip) by hand
> and doing
> cd {unpack dir}
> cd bin
> ./netscape
> seemed to run a script that ran another script that ran
> a binary of some sort. I loaded a bunch-o-stuff
> and then
> the following messages appeared..
>
> cmd mozilla-bin pid 434 tried to use non-present sched_get_priority_max
> cmd mozilla-bin pid 434 tried to use non-present sched_get_priority_min
> cmd mozilla-bin pid 437 tried to use non-present sched_setscheduler
>
> the binary then goes into some sort of endless wait.
>
> top shows it alternating between 'poll' and RUN
> but I have no idea what it is waiting on.
>
> maybe someone has gone further..
>
Alfred Perlstein has. From -chat:
Subject: new netscape6 is awesome!
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 23:21:06 -0700
To: chat@freebsd.org
For some reason my linux-netscape4 stopped working so I upgraded
my expired netscape6 to the latest PR3 version.
It's pretty awesome, too bad it doesn't seem to have a newsreader.
> he Linux emulation may need to be tweeked somewhere but I'm not sure how
> to find out how to see what it's waiting on.
> (I think TRUSS can do linux programs and may be able to say what it's
> waiting on but I'm not sure about that..)
>
> Julian
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