Bug 214144

Summary:	Firefox doesn't start on ppc64
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Zoltan Kota <zoltank>
Component:	firefox	Assignee:	Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6	CC:	bolapara, wtogami
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Hardware:	ppc64
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	1.5.0.10	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2007-04-18 05:06:22 UTC	Type:	---
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Description Zoltan Kota 2006-11-06 07:56:37 UTC

Description of problem:

After a normal graphical install of FC6 on an iMac G5 (ppc64) firefox does not
start in Gnome. Typing 'firefox' in terminal nothing happens, I get the prompt back:

[zkota@csimac ~]$ firefox
[zkota@csimac ~]$ 

Yum remove, yum install doesn't help.
 
[zkota@csimac ~]$ yum list firefox
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up repositories
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Installed Packages
firefox.ppc                              1.5.0.7-8.fc6          installed       
firefox.ppc64                            1.5.0.7-8.fc6          installed       
[zkota@csimac ~]$ 


Epiphany and galeon work fine.
Any idea?

Comment 1 Josh P. 2006-11-29 05:33:44 UTC

I see this issue as well.

For submitter, workaround is to run the 32bit version directly.

/usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.8/firefox

Comment 2 Nicholas Miell 2007-01-14 04:43:26 UTC

Just to clarify what's going on -- the PPC64 XPCOM stubs aren't merged, so
Firefox can't possibly run on PPC64. The build still succeeds, yet produces a
completely non-functional binary.

See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361415

Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2007-04-17 22:50:15 UTC

Chris, is this still an issue ? Didn't dwmw fix the xpcom stubs at some point ?

Comment 4 Christopher Aillon 2007-04-18 05:06:22 UTC

yeah