From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/9941 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: u-uy74@aetey.se Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: tor web-browser doesn't work on musl Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:16:57 +0200 Message-ID: <20160425071657.GN25745@example.net> References: Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1461568662 11431 80.91.229.3 (25 Apr 2016 07:17:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 07:17:42 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-9954-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Mon Apr 25 09:17:36 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aualz-0004nP-MV for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:17:35 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 16031 invoked by uid 550); 25 Apr 2016 07:17:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Original-Received: (qmail 16009 invoked from network); 25 Apr 2016 07:17:31 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=fripost.org; h= in-reply-to:content-disposition:content-type:content-type :mime-version:references:message-id:subject:subject:from:from :date:date; s=20140703; t=1461568640; x=1463383041; bh=TRQCMkm5A /AyW5ih67odyimcu5gH0BDQLx3s6caf3KM=; b=PBEYP8tXwFhb/rckXKmjQcEBI PS3/zoh4ieIOnmeOMI/mb35rdFE+u0vCXRstJf89n0pe2f5O/9mHqO/v1ojk6kiE 3nO8nLMpdwcQAzBX3L642Vcg/IITgxm9TFotzrJdCZYPsOWLYl4Lah0tSUKBMGJ5 uubY6HF9pe4+Z6Xvlg= X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at fripost.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:9941 Archived-At: On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 11:01:12AM -0300, Daniel Simon wrote: > Hi, I face a bug when running tor-web-browser from my new system that uses musl. > > 1) wget https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/5.5.4/tor-browser-linux64-5.5.4_en-US.tar.xz > 2) tar zxvf ./tor-browser-linux64-5.5.4_en-US.tar.xz > 3) cd tor-browser-linux64-5.5.4_en-US > 4) ./start-tor-browser.desktop > > EXPECTED: tor web browser launches as it does on glibc systems > WHAT HAPPENS: Nothing > > I assume there is a fix... > Thank you very much. I guess the only complete fix does not belong here but is to package the tor browser so that it includes all libraries which it depends on. Then TBB would work on all computers with a compatible kernel. Regrettably, the tor project did not choose this approach. You may want to ask why and/or suggest this on their mailing list or even contribute a better packaging there. Of course an alternative is to maintain multple TBB packages, one relying on glibc, another on musl, a third on another C library and on different variants of resources which are assumed to be present locally... It is hard to expect that the TBB team would do this. A third alternative would be to make musl more binary-compatible with glibc. It is though unclear whether this is possible to a sufficient degree ("sufficent" is going to vary with time too) and whether other local resources expected by TBB would be present on most musl-based distros (I doubt this). Regards, Rune