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In an attempt to get Firefox to work in BL3, I upgraded glibc to 2.3.6 
(SW11).  This broke dbclient (libutil.so.1 had an invalid ELF header until 
I changed back to 2.2.5).  Dbclient works fine in BL2 with glibc 2.3.6.

Everything else (except Steven's Abiword) works so far with 2.3.6.

Firefox appears to be loading and I see it in top (same for Seamonkey) but 
it does not display.  So I tried with SW11 libX11.  (Another recent X 
program required a more recent libX11 than from BL2 to actually display - 
SJphone).

XFbdev loaded (without a wm).  But xinit causes a segfault which then 
caused the machine to halt (I had to reboot).  Does jwm require the 
original libX11?  Would icewm for BL3 work better?  (libc5?)

I see that libX11, libSM and libICE were compiled statically (uclibc?). Do 
I need to upgrade the latter to glibc?  Why are they not libc5? I think 
there are now precompiled libc5 versions of the latest X libraries at 
X.org - would these work in BL3?

I know it is not recommended to run Firefox in BL3 but I am curious why so 
much is going wrong.

Sindi Keesan