Closed Bug 1035741 Opened 11 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Firefox OS Simulator won't launch on Pidora (Fedora on Raspberry Pi)

Categories

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Simulator, defect)

Product:
Firefox OS Graveyard
Component:
Simulator
Platform:
ARM
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: placente35ict, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0 (Beta/Release) Build ID: 20140221025809 Steps to reproduce: I've tried to run Firefox OS Simulator (ver1.3) on Raspberry Pi but faced struggles... ----- I'm basically a FreeBSD or Gentoo Linux user. However, I got interested to see Firefox OS to run on a small device like Raspberry Pi was the start of the issue... FreeBSD provides Firefox ver30 package or ports but Simulator is not supported on this platform. Gentoo Linux Firefox package's latest version is 24.0.6 ESR (as of June 2014) and also Simulator 1.3 extension cannot be installed... ----- * I recognize Raspberry Pi's popular Linux OS is Raspbian which is Debian-base thus Firefox package is not provided - just "IceWeasel" So, I decided to run Pidora which is Fedora Linux base. * installed Pidora Firefox package via yum the latest version possible to install as of June 2014: ver 27.0 * installed Firefox OS 1.3 Simulator extension ( 7.0pre9.20140401 ) seemed successful to have got installed Actual results: opend App Manager * pressed "Start Simulator" button at the bottom then * "Firefox OS 1.3" button shows so I pressed it. * Nothing happens (Simulator doesn't seem to have launced) Just below info. Start: 16:32:09: Found simulator: Firefox OS 1.3 16:32:09: Starting simulator... 16:32:09: Simulator ready. Connecting. 16:32:09: connecting to localhost:58323 16:32:30: connection timeout. Possible causes: didn't click on 'accept' (prompt). 16:32:30: disconnecting 16:32:31: disconnected Expected results: No clue so far... But Raspberry Pi is under ARM architecture (ARMv6) and installed Firefox OS Simulator extention is for Intel 32bit or 64 bit (I believe) may be the cause of the issue...? --------------- $ uname -a Linux pi 3.12.22-3.20140615git99df631.rpfr20.armv6hl.bcm2708 #1 PREEMPT Tue Jun 17 12:38:32 EDT 2014 armv6l armv6l armv6l GNU/Linux --------------- --------------- $ find -name b2g -print ./.mozilla/firefox/2yokk3vz.default/extensions/r2d2b2g@mozilla.org/resources/r2d2b2g/data/linux/b2g ./.mozilla/firefox/2yokk3vz.default/extensions/r2d2b2g@mozilla.org/resources/r2d2b2g/data/linux/b2g/b2g ./.mozilla/firefox/2yokk3vz.default/extensions/r2d2b2g@mozilla.org/resources/r2d2b2g/data/linux64/b2g ./.mozilla/firefox/2yokk3vz.default/extensions/r2d2b2g@mozilla.org/resources/r2d2b2g/data/linux64/b2g/b2g ./.mozilla/firefox/2yokk3vz.default/extensions/fxos_1_3_simulator@mozilla.org/resources/fxos_1_3_simulator/data/linux/b2g ./.mozilla/firefox/2yokk3vz.default/extensions/fxos_1_3_simulator@mozilla.org/resources/fxos_1_3_simulator/data/linux/b2g/b2g ./.mozilla/firefox/2yokk3vz.default/extensions/fxos_1_3_simulator@mozilla.org/resources/fxos_1_3_simulator/data/linux64/b2g ./.mozilla/firefox/2yokk3vz.default/extensions/fxos_1_3_simulator@mozilla.org/resources/fxos_1_3_simulator/data/linux64/b2g/b2g --------------- <b2g Linux 32bit> $ file .mozilla/firefox/2yokk3vz.default/extensions/r2d2b2g@mozilla.org/resources/r2d2b2g/data/linux/b2g/b2g .mozilla/firefox/2yokk3vz.default/extensions/r2d2b2g@mozilla.org/resources/r2d2b2g/data/linux/b2g/b2g: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, BuildID[sha1]=f1306da823160e86594a874792b8fa859ba9d46f, stripped ----- <b2g Linux 64bit> $ file .mozilla/firefox/2yokk3vz.default/extensions/r2d2b2g@mozilla.org/resources/r2d2b2g/data/linux64/b2g/b2g .mozilla/firefox/2yokk3vz.default/extensions/r2d2b2g@mozilla.org/resources/r2d2b2g/data/linux64/b2g/b2g: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, BuildID[sha1]=977144ae53f49b99ff03ef1609b2edcce35764c9, stripped -----
OS: All → Linux
Hardware: All → ARM
As you discovered, the simulator addons are indeed only released for Intel platforms, since they are intended to match the Firefox Desktop platforms that Mozilla officially supports. You would need to build the simulator add-on yourself if you want to make this work. If this interests you, ping me on IRC in #devtools and I can suggest some steps to try.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Thanks, jryans. interested, so just contacted you via IRC. Cheers :)
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