From owner-freebsd-emulation Fri Oct 6 9:59:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from megadodo.segNET.COM (megadodo.segNET.COM [206.34.181.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E385537B502; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 09:59:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (ethan@localhost) by megadodo.segNET.COM (8.9.1a/8.8.5a) with ESMTP id MAA16043; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 12:59:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 12:59:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Ethan Pierce X-Sender: ethan@megadodo To: Mark Ovens Cc: Julian Elischer , emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: report: Netscape 6, prerelease3 In-Reply-To: <20001006175154.B252@parish> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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: > >=20 > > Downloaded the required libs first (see dependencies in netscape6 (PR1) > > port) > >=20 > > then downloaded the installer (very quick... it's small compared to > > netscape) > >=20 > > 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 w= as > > puting them...) > > the files have an extension of .xpi, but 'file' reports them as ZIP fil= es. > > and unzip can read them.=20 > > as it started to unpack the files, the installer core-dumped with > > a seg-fault so instalation stopped. > >=20 > > I unpacked the rest of the .xpi files (using unzip) by hand > > and doing=20 > > 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=20 > > the following messages appeared.. > >=20 > > 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 > >=20 > > the binary then goes into some sort of endless wait. > >=20 > > top shows it alternating between 'poll' and RUN > > but I have no idea what it is waiting on. > >=20 > > maybe someone has gone further.. > >=20 >=20 > Alfred Perlstein has. From -chat: >=20 > Subject: new netscape6 is awesome! > From: Alfred Perlstein > Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 23:21:06 -0700 > To: chat@freebsd.org >=20 > For some reason my linux-netscape4 stopped working so I upgraded > my expired netscape6 to the latest PR3 version. >=20 > It's pretty awesome, too bad it doesn't seem to have a newsreader. >=20 > > he Linux emulation may need to be tweeked somewhere but I'm not sure ho= w > > 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..) > >=20 > > Julian > >=20 > >=20 > >=20 > >=20 > >=20 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message >=20 > --=20 > =09=094.4 - The number of the Beastie > ________________________________________________________________ > 51.44=B0N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org > 2.057=B0W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark > mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com >=20 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message