Ubuntu version of Prism 1.0b2
July 29, 2009 – 3:19 pmI’ve build a candidate version of Prism 1.0b2 (based on the latest Gecko 1.9.1 sources) for Ubuntu. Please let me know if you encounter any difficulties with it. I’ll try to get it onto the official site by the end of the week.
14 Responses to “Ubuntu version of Prism 1.0b2”
I receive a segmentation fault when I try to run an application.
Consider I run under 64bit version of Ubuntu 8.10
The previous version 0.9 runs without problems.
just my two cents
BTW I love Prism
By davide ficano on Jul 29, 2009
Did you create a new application or try to run an existing one? Any chance you can get a backtrace for the crash?
Have other Ubuntu users encountered problems?
By Matthew Gertner on Jul 31, 2009
The only informations I can get are the dump messages http://pastebin.mozilla.org/665386
As you can see both flash and java 64bit plugins are present but Prism 0.9 doesn’t crash and obviously the plugins are not used.
Removing the flash plugin continues to crash.
Both new created applications and existing crash.
How can I create a backtrace log userful for you?
BTW I think on Ubuntu 32bit version everything works fine.
By davide ficano on Aug 2, 2009
I’m not sure how to create a backtrace on Ubuntu unfortunately. Maybe running it in gdb?
By Matthew Gertner on Aug 4, 2009
Hi Matthew,
I get a segmentation fault about three seconds after prism successfully launches. Not sure if it’s the same issue.
strace output here:
http://pastebin.mozilla.org/666071
Ubuntu 9.04 32-bit desktop. Prism 0.9 works fine for me as well.
By debianfangirl on Aug 7, 2009
Hrm. Either pastebin has a character limit, or I fail at copy / paste. Looks like the end was chopped off.
http://quakeinfo.ucsd.edu/~jbowen/prism.strace
By debianfangirl on Aug 7, 2009
I’m not sure what to do about this. I installed 9.0.4 (32-bit) and it worked fine for me. If anyone has any ideas about how to reproduce the problem, please let me know. Alternatively, if someone can get me a useful backtrace (debianfangirl, not sure what you posted but I couldn’t make head or tail of it).
I’d be happy to help someone build a debug version on their machine for testing if they are experiencing this issue.
By Matthew Gertner on Aug 7, 2009
How did you compile it?
I do not find a compiling howto on the web..
By tom on Aug 10, 2009
There is some build documentation although it’s pretty barebones: https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Prism/Build
Let me know if you have any questions. The documentation is obviously on a wiki, and I’d be most appreciative if anyone wants to make improvements to it.
By Matthew Gertner on Aug 11, 2009
I also get a segmentation fault while starting Prism 1.0b2 under Slackware 12.1 (x86 32bit)
The creation of a new WebApp works without problems. The segmentation fault occurs during the start of prism with the “-overide” and “-webapp” options. The prism window appears for a very short time and then disappears with a “segmentation fault” on the command line.
By Patrick Kaell on Aug 15, 2009
The backtrace obtained from the “gdb where” command
http://pastebin.mozilla.org/667745
By davide ficano on Aug 21, 2009
It seems like the crash is occurring somewhere in the JavaScript engine. I’ll do my best to reproduce it.
By Matthew Gertner on Aug 21, 2009
I’m also getting a segmentation fault (core dumped) with the b2 version. I have been using the b1 version without problems.
This is on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 32 bit.
If the webapp.ini has ’statusbar=true’, prism will segfault just after loading the initial page. With ’statusbar=false’, the webapp will run but a segfault will occur when the webapp is closed.
By Murray Fraser on Oct 3, 2009
Struggling to get Flash to work within Prism still.
By Leia Fee on Oct 7, 2009