Iron Browser

[Jaycoke]

@Neal, I have gdb installed, but I am not sure how to use it to debug Iron. I just tried a reboot after I completely removed and re-installed, no joy. Chromium works fine on the laptop.

Thanks for sticking with me on this.

@longtom I will give Midori a try.

[Jaycoke]

@longtom, thanks Midori is very quick! First browser that I tried on my old laptop that I could play 'Bejeweled' on Facebook (my wifes favorite game) without the screen jittering, and freezing.

[longtom]

@longtom, thanks Midori is very quick! First browser that I tried on my old laptop that I could play 'Bejeweled' on Facebook (my wifes favorite game) without the screen jittering, and freezing.

Glad you like it.  I do to for a lighter setup.

[Neal ManBear]

@Neal, I have gdb installed, but I am not sure how to use it to debug Iron. I just tried a reboot after I completely removed and re-installed, no joy. Chromium works fine on the laptop.

http://linux.die.net/man/1/gdb
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/GDB-Commands.html

[genomega]

Have you tried running dbus-launch iron from Konsole?
or
cd /usr/lib/iron/      ./iron
or
cd /usr/lib/iron/  su   ./iron

The last one from root may generate error messages and tell us
whats going on.

[Jaycoke]

@Neal, thanks for the polite RTFM (hehe) Here is the output of gdb. Does this mean anything to you?

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$ gdb /usr/lib/iron/iron
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.1-1pclos2010 (PCLinuxOS release 2010)
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i586-mandriva-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/iron/iron...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) run iron
Starting program: /usr/lib/iron/iron iron
/usr/lib/iron/iron: /usr/lib/libz.so.1: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/iron/iron)
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
/usr/lib/iron/iron: /usr/lib/libz.so.1: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/iron/iron)
[New Thread 0xb6968b70 (LWP 4878)]
[New Thread 0xb6167b70 (LWP 4879)]
[New Thread 0xb5966b70 (LWP 4880)]
[New Thread 0xb5165b70 (LWP 4881)]
[New Thread 0xb4964b70 (LWP 4882)]

Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
0x0854e589 in ?? ()
(gdb)
@genomega
Yes, I have tried the commands you posted, all give me the same output...

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[jaycoke@laptop iron]$ ./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

[Neal ManBear]

@Neal, thanks for the polite RTFM (hehe) Here is the output of gdb. Does this mean anything to you?

  I didn't intend it that way! You said you didn't know about gbd, so I posted some links. That is not something I ever say.

[Jaycoke]

Neal, I didn't take it that way... The links you posted were very helpful! I learned how to run a debug command by reading the links. Unfortunately my attempt at humor was lost in the translation. Now I just need to learn how to decipher the output of dbg.

[Neal ManBear]

Neal, I didn't take it that way... The links you posted were very helpful! I learned how to run a debug command by reading the links. Unfortunately my attempt at humor was lost in the translation. Now I just need to learn how to decipher the output of dbg.

Deciphering debug info isn't always easy, IMO. I use Linux Google a lot for things like that.
Maybe one of the others following this thread can decipher your debug output. We can hope, eh?

[genomega]

No useful information with gdb.  When you tried ./iron from root, no error messages were generated, just the lib msg?

[Jaycoke]

genomega, same output with root as user with and without gdb.

There is an update for Iron available though. But it requires an update of glibc --> 2.11 our version in the repo is 2.10.1

SRWare forum post here
http://www.srware.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1502&sid=1de2dd6ed369ec3a4ff273f7287962f0

[genomega]

genomega, same output with root as user with and without gdb.

There is an update for Iron available though. But it requires an update of glibc --> 2.11 our version in the repo is 2.10.1

Looks like Iron is trying to be a bleeding edge program, glibc is the library that defines all of the system calls and all other basic functions of gnu/linux, it may be awhile before we see 2.11.

[Jaycoke]

Yeah, thats kind of what I figured. I don't think I am going to bother asking for an update. There are enough other good browsers out there.