On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote:
> I've asked about this issue on the Slackware mail list, but the one > responder had no insight or solution. I'm confident that the collective > wisdom and intelligence here can help me resolve the issue. > > My desktop and notebook both ran Slackware-12.2 with Firefox-3.0.19 (the > default version of firefox for that version of Slackware). I recently > upgraded both to Slackware-13.0 (2.6.29.6 kernel). The version of Firefox > included is -3.5.2, and there's a patched version, -3.6.10, distributed. > The > problem is that neither version greater than -3.0.19 will run on either > host. I click on the icon (or try running /usr/bin/firefox or > /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.10/firefox-bin from the command line) and nothing > happens. Doesn't matter if it's -3.5.2 or -3.6.10. > > When I run 'ldd /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.10/firefox-bin' I see 2 libraries > not > found on the notebook and three on the desktop (which are each listed > multiple times). From the desktop: > > [rshep...@salmo ~]$ ldd /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.10/firefox-bin > libxul.so => not found > libplc4.so => not found > libnspr4.so => not found > > The remainder are found. Yet, when I look in /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.10/ I > see all these libraries: > > libxul.so* > libnspr4.so* > libplc4.so* > > On the notebook I made symlinks to these from /usr/lib, but that made no > difference. And, when I downloaded firefox-3.0.19 and installed that rather > than the higher versions it loads and runs just fine. > > I'm stymied and puzzled. Two different hosts, two different processors, > same behaviors with all three firefox versions. How do I proceed to find > out > what's broken so I can fix it? > > TIA, > > Rich > I agree that is strange. I expect other Slackware users would have the same difficulty if they had the same setup as you. You can use strace and/or ltrace to see the full path to the libraries it's trying to load. It's probably just looking for them in the wrong place, but something else could be happening. Strace will tell you everything it's doing. -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
