Updates from factory for June 29: Firefox didn't start

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I did ‘zypper dup’ for 11.3 today and got lots of updates including Firefox. After a reboot, Firefox wouldn’t start. I tried starting it from a terminal and got this:

Couldn't load XPCOM.

I added the mozilla factory repo and updated from there. Firefox started with no problems after that. I think the xulrunner package is the problem. I haven’t found any other problems from the update so far.

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this is also in 11.2 packages from the mozilla repository, and started with the update to 3.6.6. had to roll back to 3.5.9 from 11.2:Updates

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No problem here in 11.2 or 11.3

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I had no problem with 11.2. Just 11.3.

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Which repo are you using for Mozilla? I have the same problem with 11.2 updating to Firefox 3.6.6 from the Mozilla repo //download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.2/

Is the only fix to roll all the way back to 3.5.9?

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That’s the repo I used for 11.2. Do you have mozilla-xulrunner192-1.9.2.6-3.1?

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I also had this problem on 11.2 and rolled back to 3.5.9. There may be another approach, but I did not have the time to investigate.

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Again - I reiterate, not happening here…

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That could be due to many reasons. Different plugins, … different libraries wrt other apps … etc …

For me constrainted by time, rolling back was the simplist solution.

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Yes, mozilla-xulrunner192-1.9.2.6-3.1 is installed. I tried installing it from the factory repo but that wanted some dependencies I couldn’t provide so I didn’t take it further as I didn’t want to start mixing factory packages with my 11.2.

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I wonder if the packages from the mozilla/11.3 repo would have the same dependency issues?

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I had that xul runner installed, also.

interestingly enough, 3.6.6 downloaded from mozilla.org works great… the issue is only with the OSBS packages…

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I to am having problems getting firefox 3.6.6 to run and get couldn’t load XPCOM. When I try to update xulrunner there is a dependency for libc.so that should be provided but apparently isn’t. Any ideas?

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jscastle wrote:

>
> I to am having problems getting firefox 3.6.6 to run and get couldn’t
> load XPCOM. When I try to update xulrunner there is a dependency for
> libc.so that should be provided but apparently isn’t. Any ideas?

I just hit this XPCOM issue with 3.6.6 from the repos when I updated with
YAST. I updated everything based on a search for firefox and got the bomb.
I then went back and did a search on mozilla and updated all the installed
package from that search and all is well. Somewhere, there is a dependency
that isn’t being caught. Ah! A second box just finished updating via
zypper dup and the problem does not exist so that pretty well indicates a
missing dependency that doing the blanket dup catches…

–
Will Honea

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Having the same issue with XPCOM under 11.2 x86-64 KDE 4.4.4

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I still get the XPCOM issue. When I updated every thing for firefox and mozilla it gave me a couple of dependencies that it said it couldn’t resolve. One was for python(abi), another for pkgconfig(nss) 3.1.2.6 and another for libc.so.6. There is still no resolution to the xpcom thing. I just rolled back to firefox 3.5.9

~~
Jim Castle

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I have all dependencies met.

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It’s an issue with the mozilla-js192 package. The package is provided from both packman and the mozilla repositories. FF 3.6.6 requires mozilla-js192 1.9.2.6, packman provides 1.9.2.4. switch its provider to the mozilla repository, and you should be good to go.

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I just upgraded mozilla-js192 still get couldn’t load XPCOM. On one of the other threads it mentioned xulrunner193 but it isn’t available yet.

Jim Castle
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Hope this gets solved soon