Iron Browser

[Neal ManBear]

Jaycoke,
Iron should work fine on your LXDE install. The message you see is a warning, not an error. Simply put, iron is complaining that it can't find the version information it wants in libz.so.1. This should have no affect on iron's working, though. It doesn't here.

When you installed iron, were any messages generated by Synaptic?

Try reinstalling iron and zlib1. Is any output generated?

[Jaycoke]

Ok, I reinstalled Iron, and zlib the output looks ok...

While preparing for installation:

zlib1-1.2.3-8pclos2010
iron-4.0.275.2-1pclos2010

No difference in terminal though

Code: [Select]

$ iron
./iron: /usr/lib/libz.so.1: no version information available (required by ./iron)
/usr/lib/iron/iron: /usr/lib/libz.so.1: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/iron/iron)
Illegal instruction
Not sure what the 'Illegal instruction' means or how to find out.
If I install dbg is there a quick way to get useful output from it?

/usr/bin/iron is a script

#!/bin/sh
cd /usr/lib/iron
exec ./iron

and if I execute the binary directly I get the same result.

[Neal ManBear]

How does iron perform for you? Can you surf the web?

[gseaman]

If I start iron in kde4 from the command line, I get the same error. But it runs fast with no noticable problems.

Galen

[Texstar]

Probably because it is 4.0.275 Beta for Linux. Anyway, it is a harmless warning and doesn't affect the performance of the browser.

[Jaycoke]

On my laptop Iron does not launch, that is why I was trying it from the command line. My other two machines it works great!

Laptop is a Compaq Presario 2100 with LXDE

[Taco.22]

I downloaded and tried Iron on 2010 Xfce.  No extra comment in Synaptic but it does give that error message when launched from terminal. 

Code:
$ iron
./iron: /usr/lib/libz.so.1: no version information available (required by ./iron)
/usr/lib/iron/iron: /usr/lib/libz.so.1: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/iron/iron)
Illegal instruction

However it seems to work just fine.  Seems quite nippy.  I'm actually posting from it now.  I'll give Iron a shakedown run and see how it compares with Firefox.

[Jaycoke]

I just tried creating a new user to test Iron, thinking maybe it was my user profile, no joy. Completely removed and re-installed Iron, still no joy. Tried running Iron as root. I'm running out of ideas... wish there was a way to get better output from the program ie. '-v' for verbose. 

As much as I hate giving up I guess I will just use Chromium until Iron gets an update.

[genomega]

Have you tried:  cd /usr/lib ln -s libbz.so.1.2.3 libbz.so.1.0

If that doesn't work, compiling from source on your machine will.

[Jaycoke]

Yes, the symbolic links are there already, and intact. I also tried to copy /lib/libz.so.1.2.3 to /usr/lib/libz.so.1 to remove the symbolic linking.

[AndrzejL]

This case does not belong to the broken packages section as Iron browser installs. Broken packages section contains a packages that are not installable. This issue should be posted in the Software section.

Just my $0.02 for the future use...

Andy

So if an application installs and does not work properly it does not belong in the broken Packages section?

In that case maybe most of the threads there should be moved elsewhere      

In this case Iron does work .......  but what is affected by the reported error?

I was wrong guys. I just got an e-mail from one of the "Bosses" saying - if it installs but is missing a dependancy to run correctly its still a broken package.

Sorry Neal for asking You to do something pointless. And JohnBoy. You were right. I was wrong. My bad.

Its all his fault! LOL ! !

Andy

[Was_Just19]

I was wrong guys. I just got an e-mail from one of the "Bosses" saying - if it installs but is missing a dependancy to run correctly its still a broken package.

Sorry Neal for asking You to do something pointless. And JohnBoy. You were right. I was wrong. My bad.

Its all his fault! LOL ! !

Andy

No problem mate ....  the point is resolved is all that matters   

[longtom]

In the last couple of days I tested Midori in a Phoenix install and it positively flies compared to Opera on that old 2.0 Celeron.  So while you are waiting for this to get resolved - maybe have a look at Midori.

[Neal ManBear]

Iron works fine on everything I've got. Which leads me to think that there is something about your system that is not letting it work, Jaycoke.
Hmm...... does chromium run? Are there any messages, if you launch it from the terminal?

After you completely removed iron, did you reboot before installed it? Did run run bleachbit?

[Neal ManBear]

Jaycoke,
Do you have gdb installed? If not, install it.