On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 11:07:43AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I've encountered a strange problem with the latest release of Firefox > Quantum v-60.0. > > Up to this point the previous versions, the 59.x.x, series had been very > happily residing in /opt/firefox. I uncompressed the downlo9aded file as a > user and thee copied the firefox directory tree as root > > I did the upgrade exactly the same way, but now when I try opening firefox I > get: > > comp@AbNormal:/opt/firefox$ ./firefox > XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /opt/firefox/libnspr4.so: > /opt/firefox/libnspr4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or > directory > Couldn't load XPCOM. > > What I find really puzzling is that I can run the new version in my user > directory tree without any problems. > > What is going on here?
My first guess: you forgot to wipe out the old version before you unpacked the new version into the same target directory. So now you've got a mix of files from two different versions, and something gets confused.
