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by **thod** » Wed, 26 Jun 2002 00:55:09

Hi,
I just installed OpenBSD 3.1 on a Dell Inspiron Laptop. Works
nicely,except one thing: I installed emulators/redhat from the ports
tree, and downloaded the current Mozilla 1.1 for Linux from
mozilla.org. Installation works, /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla starts,
but all I get is "Connection Refused", no matter what website I try. No
proxys or anything are configured, and lynx works fine, so there's
nothing wrong with my network.

Any ideas?
Thorsten
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by **clvrmnk** » Wed, 26 Jun 2002 02:00:34

> I just installed OpenBSD 3.1 on a Dell Inspiron Laptop. Works
> nicely,except one thing: I installed emulators/redhat from the ports
> tree, and downloaded the current Mozilla 1.1 for Linux from
> mozilla.org. Installation works, /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla starts,
> but all I get is "Connection Refused", no matter what website I try. No
> proxys or anything are configured, and lynx works fine, so there's
> nothing wrong with my network.

I don't have direct experience, but my understanding is that Mozilla
won't run on OBSD at all, regardless of how it is invoked.

-- cm

by **thod** » Wed, 26 Jun 2002 02:17:53

* clvrmnky (Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:00:34 -0400):

> > I just installed OpenBSD 3.1 on a Dell Inspiron Laptop. Works
> > nicely,except one thing: I installed emulators/redhat from the ports
> > tree, and downloaded the current Mozilla 1.1 for Linux from
> > mozilla.org. Installation works, /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla starts,
> > but all I get is "Connection Refused", no matter what website I try. No
> > proxys or anything are configured, and lynx works fine, so there's
> > nothing wrong with my network.

> I don't have direct experience, but my understanding is that Mozilla
> won't run on OBSD at all, regardless of how it is invoked.

Hmm, that's sad. Why not? It starts OK, the GUI is there, but all it
does is send out name server queries. First ipv6, then ipv4, the
responses come but then it says "Connection refused". Without even
*trying* to connect.

Thorsten
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Ja! ... Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!

by **clvrmnk** » Wed, 26 Jun 2002 03:06:22

>> I don't have direct experience, but my understanding is that Mozilla
>> won't run on OBSD at all, regardless of how it is invoked.

> Hmm, that's sad. Why not? It starts OK, the GUI is there, but all it
> does is send out name server queries. First ipv6, then ipv4, the
> responses come but then it says "Connection refused". Without even
> *trying* to connect.

More guessing here, but it may be that the network calls being made to
the Linux libraries aren't handled by the compatibility stuff in the
OBSD kernel. Running ldd on mozilla-bin shows it wants a lot of stuff,
and many of the libraries are actually in the Mozilla directory.

Mozilla has a lot of special network stuff that it does -- it doesn't
just open up sockets and read.

It looks like someone did a OpenBSD port of Mozilla, based on the NetBSD
port, but it's really old.

Your problem seems to be a common complaint, though (see
http://www.trumpetpower.com/OpenBSD/Meta-FAQ#mozilla). Either you build
it and it dumps core, or you run the Linux binary, and there is no
network access.

-- jdv

by **thod** » Wed, 26 Jun 2002 16:53:46

* clvrmnky (Mon, 24 Jun 2002 14:06:22 -0400):

Quote:
> It looks like someone did a OpenBSD port of Mozilla, based on the NetBSD
> port, but it's really old.

> Your problem seems to be a common complaint, though (see
> http://www.trumpetpower.com/OpenBSD/Meta-FAQ#mozilla). Either you build
> it and it dumps core, or you run the Linux binary, and there is no
> network access.

Thanks for the page, it answered some other of my questions too :-) So
that means that I am basically stuck with konqueror (which needs all
those KDE libs) or Opera (which is commercial software) if I want to use
a modern browser. Hmm. OK, I'll try them.

Thorsten
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Wenn ist das Nunstrck git und Slotermeyer?
Ja! ... Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!

by **holt** » Wed, 26 Jun 2002 21:25:39

Quote:> * clvrmnky (Mon, 24 Jun 2002 14:06:22 -0400):

> > It looks like someone did a OpenBSD port of Mozilla, based on the
NetBSD
> > port, but it's really old.

> > Your problem seems to be a common complaint, though (see
> > http://www.trumpetpower.com/OpenBSD/Meta-FAQ#mozilla). Either you
build
> > it and it dumps core, or you run the Linux binary, and there is no
> > network access.

> Thanks for the page, it answered some other of my questions too :-) So
> that means that I am basically stuck with konqueror (which needs all
> those KDE libs) or Opera (which is commercial software) if I want to use
> a modern browser. Hmm. OK, I'll try them.

> Thorsten
> --
> Wenn ist das Nunstrck git und Slotermeyer?
> Ja! ... Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!

There is also dillo (package or ports) in 3.1 too.

by **thod** » Thu, 27 Jun 2002 02:57:17

* holtz (Tue, 25 Jun 2002 12:25:39 GMT):

> > Thanks for the page, it answered some other of my questions too :-) So
> > that means that I am basically stuck with konqueror (which needs all
> > those KDE libs) or Opera (which is commercial software) if I want to use
> > a modern browser. Hmm. OK, I'll try them.

> There is also dillo (package or ports) in 3.1 too.

Thanks, looks good, too. Not really feature rich yet, but looks
promising.

Thorsten
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