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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] An attempt to package chromium for ppc64le in the official Fedora DNF repo

« Last post by ClassicHasClass on August 02, 2024, 12:55:01 pm »

After a bad initial experience I reinstalled last night and Chromium has come a very long way on F40. I still got a crash - honestly about 90% sure something on Facebook triggered it - but it did successfully run Google Earth at a usable speed, and that is progress.  Looking forward to more changes, and to seeing ClassicHasClass's Firefox JIT catch up.

It's a matter of me sitting down with it. Work has been really busy lately and I haven't had time for much of anything. :/

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] An attempt to package chromium for ppc64le in the official Fedora DNF repo

« Last post by rheaplex on August 02, 2024, 12:46:08 pm »

Chromium is still eventually freezing and crashing for me under both Hyprland and Gnome.

Gnome run:

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~ chromium-browser
[0802/103814.346819:ERROR:check.cc(376)] Check failed: false. NOTREACHED log messages are omitted in official builds. Sorry!
[13444:13444:0802/103814.299032:ERROR:check.cc(376)] Check failed: false. NOTREACHED log messages are omitted in official builds. Sorry!
[13444:13444:0802/103815.358375:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(576)] Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver.GetActive: object_path= /org/freedesktop/ScreenSaver: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: This method is not part of the idle inhibition specification: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/idle-inhibit-spec/latest/
[13444:13444:0802/103818.715316:ERROR:check.cc(376)] Check failed: false. NOTREACHED log messages are omitted in official builds. Sorry!
[13494:13494:0802/103835.559557:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 1 times!
[13494:13494:0802/103849.614658:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 2 times!
[13494:13494:0802/103902.206901:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 3 times!
[13495:13521:0802/104043.146745:ERROR:ssl_client_socket_impl.cc(878)] handshake failed; returned -1, SSL error code 1, net_error -101
[13495:13521:0802/104043.170737:ERROR:ssl_client_socket_impl.cc(878)] handshake failed; returned -1, SSL error code 1, net_error -100
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file: No such file: (null)
[0802/104100.346623:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0802/104100.350774:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0802/104100.357153:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0802/104100.358895:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0802/104100.510693:ERROR:check.cc(376)] Check failed: false. NOTREACHED log messages are omitted in official builds. Sorry!
[1]    13444 trace trap (core dumped)  chromium-browser

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] An attempt to package chromium for ppc64le in the official Fedora DNF repo

« Last post by Hasturtium on August 01, 2024, 05:43:23 pm »

After a bad initial experience I reinstalled last night and Chromium has come a very long way on F40. I still got a crash - honestly about 90% sure something on Facebook triggered it - but it did successfully run Google Earth at a usable speed, and that is progress.  Looking forward to more changes, and to seeing ClassicHasClass's Firefox JIT catch up.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] An attempt to package chromium for ppc64le in the official Fedora DNF repo

« Last post by rheaplex on July 31, 2024, 07:59:12 pm »

I just ran dnf update and got:

chromium-126.0.6478.182-2.fc40.ppc64le.rpm

so maybe try now?

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] An attempt to package chromium for ppc64le in the official Fedora DNF repo

« Last post by MauryG5 on July 31, 2024, 03:43:10 pm »

But from which day this? I did the last update last week and the defect continued to do the same. I also reported the problem 1 month ago to the Fedora team but they never responded...

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] An attempt to package chromium for ppc64le in the official Fedora DNF repo

« Last post by tle on July 31, 2024, 02:42:58 am »

Fedora has adopted the patchset that Debian and other distros are using (https://gitlab.solidsilicon.io/public-development/open-source/chromium/openpower-patches). Great thanks to Than Ngo of RedHat, Timothy Pearson (Debian package maintainer)

Time to QA folks! So far it runs perfectly for me! No crash yet

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Debian 12 status?

« Last post by Hasturtium on July 30, 2024, 10:04:29 pm »

I put some of my observations in this blog post

The BtrFs issue is particularly annoying if you create a BtrFs using 4k on an external drive or USB stick and you want to attach that drive to a host running the 64k page size.

They made some improvements to BtrFs in more recent kernels but last time I looked at it they still said the combination of 64k page size with 4k BtrFs block size is experimental.  Then again, they still tell us the BtrFs itself is experimental.

Porting applications to POWER and porting to 64k are two different problems.  Trying to solve them both at the same time in an environment where at least some people are here as hobbyists may be asking too much.

Yeah, I'd forgotten about Btrfs, that's potentially a big one. As a self-avowed hobbyist and minimal dabbler in coding, that much is definitely true.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Debian 12 status?

« Last post by pocock on July 30, 2024, 03:13:41 am »

I put some of my observations in this blog post

The BtrFs issue is particularly annoying if you create a BtrFs using 4k on an external drive or USB stick and you want to attach that drive to a host running the 64k page size.

They made some improvements to BtrFs in more recent kernels but last time I looked at it they still said the combination of 64k page size with 4k BtrFs block size is experimental.  Then again, they still tell us the BtrFs itself is experimental.

Porting applications to POWER and porting to 64k are two different problems.  Trying to solve them both at the same time in an environment where at least some people are here as hobbyists may be asking too much.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Debian 12 status?

« Last post by Hasturtium on July 29, 2024, 08:23:43 pm »

4KB page sizes are still required for the nouveau driver, and may be useful in bringing Intel's xe up on ppc64le too. The maintainer of Void Linux stood by the practice too out of personal preference and cross-platform compatibility.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Debian 12 status?

« Last post by MauryG5 on July 29, 2024, 11:21:34 am »

Sorry but why are you using the 4K page size? AMDGPU drivers have long since eliminated the bug that occurred at the time for the default page sizes used on Power, i.e. 64K. I have long since returned to 64K pages on the Kernel and I have not had any problems for a long time on my Radeon 5700XT. Why do you have to use that size? I still use 11.9 as my Debian version, I have not wanted to update yet because I like Gnome 3.38 better as it is more original in its animations and use, compared to the current Gnome 3.4X... When I am forced to update then I will.