[Fedora-sparc] firefox Bus error on Fedora 12

[Cicone, Anthony]

I was able to fix #2 by rebuilding the kernel 2.6.32.21-166.fc12.sparc64 from source, and now I don't have to use "SWCursor" and get the weird lines when mousing over some windows.

Still working on #1.

Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Cicone, Anthony 
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 11:33 AM
To: 'Tom Callaway'; sparc at lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: RE: [Fedora-sparc] firefox Bus error on Fedora 12

Thanks Tom, I have tried upgrading to the FC 15 code, but no dice.  Except for these issues, it works well, and I'm the envy of my other Linux/Solaris Admins ;-). 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Callaway [mailto:tcallawa at redhat.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 11:27 AM
To: sparc at lists.fedoraproject.org
Cc: Cicone, Anthony
Subject: Re: [Fedora-sparc] firefox Bus error on Fedora 12

On 03/01/2012 10:04 AM, Cicone, Anthony wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> I switched back from Debian to Fedora Sparc 12, on my Sunblade 2500 with XVR-100 card.  Everything is working well, except for these issues:
> 
> 1. firefox gets a "Bus error" whenever I go to yahoo.com or other sites, google.com works fine.  I'm assuming it's any page that has flash or maybe acitve X?
> 
> firefox-3.5.9-2.fc12.sparcv9
> totem-mozplugin-2.28.6-1.fc12.sparcv9
> gnash-plugin-0.8.7-1.fc12.sparcv9
> 
> 2. I recompiled the rdesktop version 1.71., and it works, but I have to use the "SWCursor" setting in xorg.conf, so my cursor is not a big block.  But, when ever I mouse into the rdesktop window, I get a bunch of horizontal lines that garble the screen?  If I don't use "SWCursor", I get a big block cursor, but no garbled screen.

I hate to say this, but that Fedora code is so old it probably isn't worth bugfixing at this point. I've been so busy with other work in Fedora that I haven't had time to even look at SPARC in a very long time. I know Dennis Gilmore is in the same situation.

I'd really love to be able to have the time to devote to a solid attempt to do a current Fedora SPARC release, but I just don't know where it would come from.

Firefox is rather notorious about having endian issues which cause Bus errors (combined with assuming that SPARC == Solaris). Could be anything really.

~tom

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