On 03/01/2012 10:04 AM, Cicone, Anthony wrote: I hate to say this, but that Fedora code is so old it probably isn't worth bugfixing at this point. I've been so busy with other work in Fedora that I haven't had time to even look at SPARC in a very long time. I know Dennis Gilmore is in the same situation. I'd really love to be able to have the time to devote to a solid attempt to do a current Fedora SPARC release, but I just don't know where it would come from. Firefox is rather notorious about having endian issues which cause Bus errors (combined with assuming that SPARC == Solaris). Could be anything really. ~tom == Fedora Project

I was able to fix #2 by rebuilding the kernel 2.6.32.21-166.fc12.sparc64 from source, and now I don't have to use "SWCursor" and get the weird lines when mousing over some windows. Still working on #1. Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: Cicone, Anthony Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 11:33 AM To: 'Tom Callaway'; sparc(a)lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: RE: [Fedora-sparc] firefox Bus error on Fedora 12 Thanks Tom, I have tried upgrading to the FC 15 code, but no dice. Except for these issues, it works well, and I'm the envy of my other Linux/Solaris Admins ;-). -----Original Message----- From: Tom Callaway [mailto:tcallawa@redhat.com] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 11:27 AM To: sparc(a)lists.fedoraproject.org Cc: Cicone, Anthony Subject: Re: [Fedora-sparc] firefox Bus error on Fedora 12 On 03/01/2012 10:04 AM, Cicone, Anthony wrote: I hate to say this, but that Fedora code is so old it probably isn't worth bugfixing at this point. I've been so busy with other work in Fedora that I haven't had time to even look at SPARC in a very long time. I know Dennis Gilmore is in the same situation. I'd really love to be able to have the time to devote to a solid attempt to do a current Fedora SPARC release, but I just don't know where it would come from. Firefox is rather notorious about having endian issues which cause Bus errors (combined with assuming that SPARC == Solaris). Could be anything really. ~tom == Fedora Project T. Rowe Price (including T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. and its affiliates) and its associates do not provide legal or tax advice. Any tax-related discussion contained in this e-mail, including any attachments, is not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, for the purpose of (i) avoiding any tax penalties or (ii) promoting, marketing, or recommending to any other party any transaction or matter addressed herein. Please consult your independent legal counsel and/or professional tax advisor regarding any legal or tax issues raised in this e-mail. The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are intended solely for the use of the named addressee(s) and may contain confidential and/or privileged information. Any unauthorized use, copying, disclosure, or distribution of the contents of this e-mail is strictly prohibited by the sender and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail.