Netsurf and RISC OS 5.19 Beagleboard crash

Please redirect me if this is or has been covered; have posted on the Netsurf site too as not sure if RISC OS specific or Netsurf specific.

Using RISC OS 5.19 (23-Dec-12) on Beagle and Netsurf 2.9 (27-Feb-12). Machine crashes on certain pages for example going to this forum page. “Internal error on data transfer at &xxxxxxxx” then “Filecore in use” which stiffs the machine.

Turning off Alignment Exceptions seems to prevent the problem but not sure if this is sensible in the long term as it could interfere with other apps running.

thanks

Have you got Netsurf → Choices → Images set to “Use OS”?

Just a thought…

As Keith said – change the image processing options.
The origin of the problem is that Tinct is not ARM7 compliant and making the change above stop NetSurf requesting the Tinct based functions.

Tinct needs a rebuild, but it’s third party.

Sorry chaps – tried setting “Use OS” in both Foreground and Background under Choices but…same result. Even after reboot. Netsurf crashes with error messages reported before :(

Any other ideas?

thanks.

Well, the latest json and jsoff versions of NetSurf work fine with AEs on. I have never had any trouble with it since I got the BB 18 months ago or more once Tinct was disabled.

What else have you got running?

I need to do more research but I have found that !DigitalCD and !Netsurf cause each other (as in one or the other) to crash when they are both loaded…

Nothing else running and nothing extra (as far as I am aware) added to the Boot sequence to be initialised on start up.

I’ve tried the test version of Netsurf with JS from

http://ci.netsurf-browser.org/builds/riscos/NetSurf-gcc-json-739.zip

and here that doesn’t even start up without AEs switched off.
Even then Netsurf times out when trying to load certain pages (e.g. these forums) unless Choices > Images is switched to anything except “Use OS” (i.e. “Error diffused” works)

(The link above is as given over in the “General > Netsurf with javascript” forum)

The link above is as given over in the “General > Netsurf with javascript” forum

http://ci.netsurf-browser.org/builds/riscos/

might be a better link to publish.

Note that since the link(previous) is to a specific nightly build it is likely to be superceded at regular intervals by more capable and probably bug fixed versions. Equally the latest could have some bug that needs fixing. You take a chance with bleeding edge versions, just as people are doing with the majority of the Pi, beagle, pandora OS revisions.
The latest as I write is v768 (as opposed to 739)