Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 12:59:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Ethan Pierce <ethan@segNET.COM> To: Mark Ovens <marko@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: report: Netscape 6, prerelease3 Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10010061258430.15248-100000@megadodo> In-Reply-To: <20001006175154.B252@parish>
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Im coming into this a bit late, but is there a working version of N6
working under freebsd? Im using 4.73 and would love a change :)
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Mark Ovens wrote:
> 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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