Re: Firefox won't start, fresh build and installation

["Thomas Mueller" <mueller6725%twc.com@localhost>]

from nia:

> On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 10:23:05PM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > Now I have a freshly built and installed Firefox on NetBSD 9.99.82-amd64, but it won't start. 
 
> > Is there s special way to start it, other than simply "firefox" from an X (icewm14) command prompt?
 
> > I get 
 
> > [Parent 4530, Main Thread] WARNING: failed to open shm: Not supported: file /pkgsrc/www/firefox/work10.amd64/firefox-88.0.1/ipc/chromium/src/base/shared_memory_posix.cc:354
> > [1]   Segmentation fault      /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/firefox "${@}"
 
> > I did "make clean clean-depends" so I no longer have /pkgsrc/www/firefox/work10.amd64 .
 
> > Earlier, I was successful building www/seamonkey, that runs.  Profile and session seem to migrate from my FreeBSD installation of Seamonkey.
 
> > I mamaged to install a considerable amount of software from pkgsrc on this computer; not so good on other computer where devel/libuv fails because it can't find or create ltmain.sh .
 
> Tom

> Are you running a custom kernel configuration? IIRC it is possible
> to disable shared memory support.

I was using a custom kernel configuration, commenting out many of the lines for SCSI cards no longer used, and Ethernet adapters not in use, but I also compiled the GENERIC kernel.

My custom kernel config seemes not to differ from the GENERIC in lines related to memory.

But Seamonkey runs, apparently so does Otter Browser.

I still can't get the weekly ad, just a blank space, for www.valumarket.com , either with Seamonkey or Otter.

I also built and installed lynx and elinks (text-mode browsers, no graphics), Netsurf (lery limited in its capabilities), Midori (spinning circle but didn't load web page), vimb (just blank page, no hint of what was supposed to be there).

I was thinking about trying to build and install Qutebrowser.  I would also like emulators/qemu.

Tom