Iris, Otter and Qupzilla

Following today’s package manager update, I deleted both !Otter and !Qupzilla, installed them via package manager – neither program runs.

Installed the VFP versions and the result is the same; neither work – Pi3B.

(I do have an !Otter excdump – but its way too big to post here)

Qupzilla debug log:

Fatal signal received: Segmentation fault

Stack backtrace:

Running thread 0x91060 (Main Thread)
  ( 1007f34) pc: 4ad587a4 lr: 4ad58c84 sp:  1007f38  __write_backtrace()
  ( 1007fa0) pc: 4ad589b8 lr: 4ad5a81c sp:  1007fa4  __unixlib_raise_signal()
  ( 1007fb0) pc: 4ad5a704 lr: 4ad66738 sp:  1006d7c  __h_cback()

  Register dump at 01007fb4:

    a1:   1cd478 a2:        0 a3:       29 a4:        0
    v1:    714c4 v2:        8 v3:    7bbd0 v4:        0
    v5:   1cd470 v6:    88950 sl:   f07208 fp:  1006da0
    ip:    93f04 sp:  1006d7c lr: 4ad66738 pc: 4a7aef8c
    cpsr: 20000110

  4a7aef78 : (@“å : e5944028 : LDR     R4,[R4,#40]
  4a7aef7c : ~íþë : ebfeed7e : BL      &4A76A57C
  4a7aef80 : .. ã : e3a01000 : MOV     R1,#0
  4a7aef84 : ..Ŷå : e5850000 : STR     R0,[R5,#0]
  4a7aef88 : y×þë : ebfed779 : BL      &4A764D74
  4a7aef8c : \0flå : e59f305c : LDR     R3,&4A7AEFF0
  4a7aef90 : .`“ç : e7946003 : LDR     R6,[R4,R3]
  4a7aef94 : X0flå : e59f3058 : LDR     R3,&4A7AEFF4
  4a7aef98 : .. á : e1a01006 : MOV     R1,R6

  ( 1006da0) pc: 4a7aef5c lr: 4a7a49f8 sp:  1006da4  QWaitCondition::QWaitCondition()
  ( 1006dc0) pc: 4a7a49c0 lr: 4aa3be3c sp:  1006dc4  QReadWriteLock::QReadWriteLock(QReadWriteLock::RecursionMode)
  ( 1006ddc) pc: 4aa3bdd4 lr: 4aa43070 sp:  1006de0  QCoreGlobalData::instance()
  ( 1006df8) pc: 4aa43058 lr: 4a849f3c sp:  1006dfc  QTextCodec::codecForLocale()
  ( 1006e18) pc: 4a849ef4 lr: 4a952d54 sp:  1006e1c  QString::fromLocal8Bit_helper(char const*, int)
  ( 1006e3c) pc: 4a952ce4 lr: 4a8bb748 sp:  1006e40  QFileSystemEngine::homePath()
  ( 1006e50) pc: 4a8bb738 lr: 49692640 sp:  1006e54  QDir::homePath()
  ( 1006e6c) pc: 4969261c lr: 4990bc84 sp:  1006e70  _GLOBAL__sub_I_webpage.cpp()
  ( 1006e80) pc: 4990bc54 lr: 4966ec30 sp:  1006e84  __do_global_ctors_aux()
  ( 1006eb0) pc: 4966ec28 lr: 495a9f3c sp:  1006eb4  ?()
  ( 1006ed4) pc: 495a9d68 lr: 4ad6f568 sp:  1006ed8  _dl_call_ctors()

It’s likely that the QT libraries will require a rebuild to take in to account the correction to pthread_cond in Unixlib.

Installed the VFP versions and the result is the same; neither work – Pi3B.

I’m in the process of rebuilding everything with the latest UnixLib. Hopefully that will fix the problem. In the meantime as a temporary workaround downgrade to this version of UnixLib from here. Just copy the !Boot folder over existing one. As the file is older than the existing one you might need to force it to overwrite if you have ‘Newer’ set in the filer.

Thanks and thank you for the work around.

The new GCC and shared libraries (release 5) have now been released, hopefully that will help Chris.

The new GCC and shared libraries (release 5) have now been released, hopefully that will help Chris.

I’ve just finished rebuilding everything with the latest GCCSDK. Both Otter Browser and Qupzilla now work with release 5 of GCC shared libraries. I need to do a bit more testing then I can make everything available for download. Hopefully in a couple of days. Thanks.

Hi Chris,

Not here on my ARMX6 neither work with the updated Rlse 5 SharedLibs unless you mean you have updated versions built against Rlse5 awaiting uploading.

Anyway thanks for sorting YTSearch/YouTubedl and to Alan for the Rlse5 SharedLibs

Not here on my ARMX6 neither work with the updated Rlse 5 SharedLibs unless you

You need the temporary workaround available here.

There’s an updated installation zip file for Otter Browser available here. It now runs without any workarounds with release 5 of SharedLibs. Release 5 of SharedLibs must be installed already. The easiest way to install ShareLibs is using PackMan. See the ReadMe in the zip file.

Once everything in the Otter Browser installation zip is installed QupZilla (available from the same URL above) will also work with Release 5 of SharedLibs without any changes to QupZilla.

… now runs without any workarounds with release 5 of SharedLibs

Brilliant. Otter-browser and Qupzilla both run here with the latest SharedLibs. Many thanks.

Same here so thanks Chris for the update.

Thank you for the updates. :-)

Only one small hiccup encountered in that I had to first remove hunspell using PackMan, after that all worked well.

There’s an updated version of Otter Browser (0.9.91-dev 20170922-2) available here.
It contains just the Otter browser executable. Make sure you have the version available here installed before updating. The only change is the custom proxy settings now take affect. Previously they were ignored.
Using a proxy server helps to speed up downloads and general browsing. On RISC OS network latency causes slow downloads even with fast connections.

Just want to say , that “OWB2” is worked on. JIT JavaScript and more. The old one is so limited in what it can do , even if it is hard to beat its startup time. It is very time consuming to do RISC OS replacements for unix styled gui, but I hope it will work out.

Cool. I love its start-up time, very short.
It’s so fast to open, read pages, and crash :)

OWB will be my favourite, and Iris could be the one that can read all pages (not true today, as Otter can access some complex bank pages Iris can’t).

Of course, we all wait for JIT. And perhaps statically linked browsers. If they use hundreds of megabyte of RAM, why caring of the wimpslot size? (and I’m pretty sure they will boot faster, and will not be so big, with correct stripping).