Your message dated Sun, 14 Sep 2025 09:33:13 +0200
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and subject line iceweasel has been superseded by firefox-esr
has caused the Debian Bug report #259215,
regarding mozilla-firefox: Can't run as root
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Package: mozilla-firefox
Version: 1.0.4-2
Severity: normal
When I try to run firefox as root when logged in as a normal user, I
get this:
sid:~# firefox
grep: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory
sed: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object
file: No such file or directory
cut: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object
file: No such file or directory
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: XDM authorization key matches an existing client!
(firefox-bin:20250): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
sid:~#
The first three errors is another problem (unrelated and reported).
Other X-applications, including mozilla, works fine from the same
root-shell.
/ Anders
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.11
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to sv_SE)
Versions of packages mozilla-firefox depends on:
ii debianutils 2.14.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii fontconfig 2.3.2-1 generic font configuration library
ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.1-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.1-2 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.5-1 The GLib library of C routines
hi libgtk2.0-0 2.6.4-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libidl0 0.8.5-1 library for parsing CORBA IDL file
ii libjpeg62 6b-10 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libkrb53 1.3.6-3 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.2-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++6 4.0.1-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxp6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System printing extension
ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii psmisc 21.6-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime
mozilla-firefox recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 115.12.0esr-1+rm
src:iceweasel has been superseded by src:firefox-esr in version
45.0esr-1 in March 2016. Transitional packages to ease upgrades were
provided in the wheezy, jessie, stretch and buster releases. The
transitional packages have been removed finally before the bullseye
release in August 2021.
After regular security support for buster ended in August 2022 and LTS
support ended in June 2024, I'm closing the remaining bug reports now.
Andreas
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