[Bug 1583849] Re: dist-upgrade & FF upgrade breaks FF & Midori 16.04 PPC

[Fritz Hudnut]

@John:

Thanks for the follow-up . . . appreciate the suggestion on downgrading;
however it seemed that there was some problem with Midori as well . . .
???  Not a whole lot of options for browsers in PPC . . . hopefully FF will
pull itself together.

F

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 6:20 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <
glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> As you can see in the linked upstream bug report, Firefox is currently
> broken on all big-endian architectures. The only known workaround for
> this is currently downgrading to Firefox 44.
>
> Adrian
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> Title:
>   dist-upgrade & FF upgrade breaks FF & Midori 16.04 PPC
>
> Status in Mozilla Firefox:
>   Confirmed
> Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
>   New
>
> Bug description:
>   OK, the reason I'm posting back here, running Lu 16.04 on an PPC
>   iBook, and MATE/XFCE 16.04 on a PM ST. . . did a dist-upgrade today,
>   so it now running the new "22" kernel and saw in the list of upgrades
>   new updates to FF and T-bird . . . on both machines after reboot FF
>   window frame loads . . . and then crashes . . . no data is ever filled
>   into the browser window.
>
>   The iBook error says it "doesn't have enough memory to report the
>   problem" . . . and on the PM . . . apparently it says the error report
>   was "corrupted" . . . no launchpad window opened in the browser when I
>   clicked on the "report the problem."
>
>   Tried to revert to the old kernel in the iBook several times,
>   seemingly failed to boot the old one . . . shut it down.
>
>   I went to the PM running 16.04 U-MATE and tried the same dist-upgrade
>   via console there, that upgrade was much larger than the Lu system,
>   but subsequently FF also then failed to launch w/o crashing . . .
>   installed Midori to make an apple user post, but when I tried to start
>   a new thread there Midori crashed as well.
>
>   I ran "apt-get -f install" in both the iBook & the PM . . . nothing
>   showed up. No "comment" in the terminal during the upgrade asking any
>   questions or reporting "problems" . . . but FF is kaput!!!!
>
>   I'm back in OSX 10.5 side until things cool down for the browsers in
>   16.04 PPC Lu & U-MATE/XFCE.
>
>   e...
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