Firefox on Busybox

Thu Jun 15 11:49:17 UTC 2006

i did some googling:
result:
recompiling firefox was a solution for one guy:
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=921557#post921557

an other hint in an solaris forum was to look at libiconv, that is 
reponsible for char conversion. maybe you can check that.

re,
  wh

Michael Marriott wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> More details:
> CPU Intel Pentium 2.4GHz on MSI P4MAM-V motherboard (P4M266A + 8235
> Chipset)
> No HDD
> 256Mb RAM
> Using PXE Booting
> 
> I have solved the segmentation fault issue but firefox window does not
> appear.
> 
> The system boots 2.6.9 kernel (I know it's old but that's OK)
> I have built a 100Mb File System including BusyBox.
> I will move firefox back to nfs eventually and reduce the size of fs.gz
> I have a /firefox dir and an ldd /firefox/firefox-bin yields the
> following:
> 
>  libmozjs.so => /firefox/libmozjs.so (0x008de000)
>         libxpcom.so => /firefox/libxpcom.so (0x00b2c000)
>         libxpcom_core.so => /firefox/libxpcom_core.so (0x00494000)
>         libplds4.so => /firefox/libplds4.so (0x00a70000)
>         libplc4.so => /firefox/libplc4.so (0x00a75000)
>         libnspr4.so => /firefox/libnspr4.so (0x00202000)
>         libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x00111000)
>         libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00def000)
>         libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /firefox/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x07a2a000)
>         libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /firefox/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x00aaa000)
>         libatk-1.0.so.0 => /firefox/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0x00996000)
>         libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /firefox/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
> (0x00124000)
>         libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 => /firefox/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0
> (0x00139000)
>         libpangox-1.0.so.0 => /firefox/libpangox-1.0.so.0 (0x00989000)
>         libpango-1.0.so.0 => /firefox/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0x0013e000)
>         libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /firefox/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x007bb000)
>         libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /firefox/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x007f9000)
>         libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x0073e000)
>         libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x0022f000)
>         libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x00175000)
>         libsmime3.so => /firefox/libsmime3.so (0x008bb000)
>         libssl3.so => /firefox/libssl3.so (0x00198000)
>         libnss3.so => /firefox/libnss3.so (0x00c42000)
>         libsoftokn3.so => /firefox/libsoftokn3.so (0x00831000)
>         libXrender.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x001b8000)
>         libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00678000)
>         libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x06ed9000)
>         libxpcom_compat.so => /firefox/libxpcom_compat.so (0x001c1000)
>         libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x002f6000)
>         libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x001d8000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x00cc6000)
>         libXft.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2 (0x001e1000)
>         libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x006e1000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00566000)
>         libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0x001f3000)
>         libXi.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x001f6000)
>         libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0x001fe000)
>         libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0x003b2000)
>         libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x003bb000)
>         libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /firefox/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0
> (0x003c9000)
>         libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00666000)
>         libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x00df5000)
>         libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x003ef000)
>         libexpat.so.0 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 (0x00709000)
> 
> When I run the shell script: /bin/firefox -g I get the following:
> /firefox/run-mozilla.sh -g /firefox/firefox-bin
> MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/firefox
> 
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/firefox:/firefox/plugins:/usr/local/lib/mre/mre-1.5.0.4:/firefox:/firefox
> DISPLAY=:0.0
> FONTCONFIG_PATH=/etc/fonts:/firefox/res/Xft
> DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/firefox:/usr/local/lib/mre/mre-1.5.0.4
> 
> LIBRARY_PATH=/firefox:/firefox/components:/usr/local/lib/mre/mre-1.5.0.4
>        SHLIB_PATH=/firefox:/usr/local/lib/mre/mre-1.5.0.4
>           LIBPATH=/firefox:/usr/local/lib/mre/mre-1.5.0.4
>        ADDON_PATH=/firefox
>       MOZ_PROGRAM=/firefox/firefox-bin
>       MOZ_TOOLKIT=
>         moz_debug=1
>      moz_debugger=
> Could not find a debugger on your system.
> 
> So the env looks OK to run firefox. But.....running firefox nothing
> happens. No window opens.
> 
> Running /firefox/firefox-bin results in the following:
> 
> (firefox-bin:652): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to
> STRING: Could not open converter from 'UTF-8' to 'ISO-8859-1'
> 
> (firefox-bin:652): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to
> STRING: Conversion from character set 'UTF-8' to 'ISO-8859-1' is not
> supported
> 
> (firefox-bin:652): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to
> STRING: Conversion from character set 'UTF-8' to 'ISO-8859-1' is not
> supported
> 
> (firefox-bin:652): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to
> STRING: Conversion from character set 'UTF-8' to 'ISO-8859-1' is not
> supported
> 
> (firefox-bin:652): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to
> STRING: Conversion from character set 'UTF-8' to 'ISO-8859-1' is not
> supported
> 
> (firefox-bin:652): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to
> STRING: Conversion from character set 'UTF-8' to 'ISO-8859-1' is not
> supported
> 
> (firefox-bin:652): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to
> STRING: Conversion from character set 'UTF-8' to 'ISO-8859-1' is not
> supported
> 
> (firefox-bin:652): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to
> STRING: Conversion from character set 'UTF-8' to 'ISO-8859-1' is not
> supported
> 
> (firefox-bin:652): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to
> STRING: Conversion from character set 'UTF-8' to 'ISO-8859-1' is not
> supported
> 
> (firefox-bin:652): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to
> STRING: Conversion from character set 'UTF-8' to 'ISO-8859-1' is not
> supported
> 
> (firefox-bin:652): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to
> STRING: Conversion from character set 'UTF-8' to 'ISO-8859-1' is not
> supported
> 
> Any ideas as to why the firefox window is not appearing?
> 
> Mike
> 
> On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 15:24 -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
>> On Sunday 11 June 2006 7:36 am, Michael Marriott wrote:
>>> Can someone point me in the right direction as to how I can get the
>>> Firefox browser running in my busybox system?
>> You tell me how to run busybox on firefox and I'll tell you how to run FireFox 
>> on busybox.
>>
>> BusyBox is one part of a system.  At the very least you also need a kernel and 
>> a C library.  In order to mess with something like FireFox you also need X11 
>> and gtk and probably a lot of other stuff.
>>
>> This is a bit like saying "I'm using your brand of tires on my car, and the 
>> engine's making funny noises".  Sorry to hear it.  Not much we can do about 
>> it.
>>
>>> So far I have installed the firefox directory onto an NFS system mounted
>>> on the busybox device.
>>> I get a bunch of warnings about fonts and oh
>>> yeah...................getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (0).
>>> I guess firefox is trying to get user info from /etc/passwd but I don't
>>> know if any of these warnings are directly related to the SEGMENTATION
>>> FAULT I am getting.
>> Do you _have_ an /etc/passwd?
>>
>> I have no idea why your firefox is segfaulting.  I have no idea where your 
>> firefox came from.  I don't know what version it is, whether your built it 
>> from source or extracted it from some other environment (you mention FC3, 
>> which I've never used).  I don't know what "your busybox system" is.  I don't 
>> know what processor it has (it's x86?), what shared library you're using 
>> (glibc or uClibc, let alone version), what other packages are installed (like 
>> X.org), how much memory is in it...
>>
>> You never even told me which version of busybox you're using, not that this is 
>> even likely to be relevant since the problem you're having really sounds like 
>> it has nothing to do with BusyBox...
>>
>>> My kernel is 2.6.9
>> Seven releases of out date, coming up on eight.  (We may support the old 
>> stuff, but we don't encourage new deployments on it.)
>>
>>> and the libraries are coming from a FC3 system. 
>> Why?
>>
>>> Are there specific kernel paramters that need to be set in order to
>>> support firefox?
>> Do you mean kernel configuration, or kernel command line in the bootloader, 
>> or...?
>>
>>> Can I simply use the existing FC3 libraries?
>> Doesn't sound like it so far.
>>
>>> Are there specific busybox parameters that need to be configured prior
>>> to compiling?
>> Is BusyBox involved in your compilation at all?  Last I heard I had the only 
>> truly BusyBox-based development environment I know of, and I really doubt 
>> you're using Firmware Linux.  (For one thing, I haven't updated its web page 
>> in months.  Or for that matter, had time to work on it...)
>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>> What on earth are you trying to do?
>>
>> Back up from busybox a bit:
>>
>> You need to know what specific questions to ask before we can give you answers 
>> that mean anything, and doesn't help to wander into a florist with questions 
>> about bricklaying.  If FireFox is segfaulting for you, you might want to ask 
>> why on the firefox list...
>>
>> Rob
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