Subject: Re: firefox-bin on -current?
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 07/13/2005 14:02:34
In message <20050524160658.91FED3BFFF5@berkshire.machshav.com>, "Steven M. Bell
ovin" writes:
>In message <20050524172320.571378a2.juan@xtrarom.org>, Juan RP writes:
>>On Tue, 24 May 2005 09:41:27 -0400
>>"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Is anyone successfully running firefox-bin 1.0.4 on -current?  On my 
>>> machines, I'm getting a segmentation fault.  (I need the -bin version 
>>> because I often can't print from the compiled version -- but that's a 
>>> separate problem.)
>>
>>Running fine here:
>>
>>NetBSD Nocturno 3.99.5 NetBSD 3.99.5 (Nocturno) #30: Mon May 23
>>11:15:04 CEST 2005  juan@Nocturno:/home/juan/build/obj/sys/arch/i386/
>>compile/Nocturno i386
>>
>>[juan@Nocturno][~]> pkg_info|grep firefox
>>firefox-bin-1.0.4   Lightweight gecko-based web browser (binary package)
>>[juan@Nocturno][~]>
>>
>
>Hmm -- I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that I use xorg.
>

1.0.5 is now working for me.  I suspect that the fix had less to do 
with a new version of firefox than with the problems discussed a few 
days ago with xorg and linux emulation fonts (pkg/30690 and 30008)

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb