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?
I see this issue as well. For submitter, workaround is to run the 32bit version directly. /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.8/firefox
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
Chris, is this still an issue ? Didn't dwmw fix the xpcom stubs at some point ?
yeah