Re: Xorg upgrade desaster: Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".

From: Alex Goncharov <alex-goncharov_at_comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 07:56:40 -0500
,--- You/O. (Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:07:32 +0100) ----*
| Alex Goncharov wrote:
| > ,--- You/O. (Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:39:03 +0100) ----*
| > | I did a 'ldd' on the Firefox3 binary
| > | and  I got the attached dump of the linked shared objects.
| > | Interestingly, the first three entries show up something missing -
| >
| > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/firefox3 ldd /usr/local/lib/firefox3/firefox-bin | head -n 5
| > /usr/local/lib/firefox3/firefox-bin:
| >         libxul.so => /usr/local/lib/firefox3/libxul.so (0x28087000)
| >         libmozjs.so => /usr/local/lib/firefox3/libmozjs.so (0x28e8f000)
| >         libxpcom.so => /usr/local/lib/firefox3/libxpcom.so (0x28f1f000)
| >
| > firefox3 sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH for you :-)
| >   
| It does not!

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$ grep run-mozilla.sh  /usr/local/bin/firefox3 
# Use run-mozilla.sh in the current dir if it exists
# If not, then start resolving symlinks until we find run-mozilla.sh
run_moz="$curdir/run-mozilla.sh"
    run_moz="$curdir/run-mozilla.sh"
      run_moz="$dist_bin/run-mozilla.sh"
  if [ -x "$moz_libdir/run-mozilla.sh" ]; then
  echo $dist_bin/run-mozilla.sh $script_args $dist_bin/$MOZILLA_BIN "$_at_"
"$dist_bin/run-mozilla.sh" $script_args "$dist_bin/$MOZILLA_BIN" "$_at_"


$ grep  LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/lib/firefox3/run-mozilla.sh
## Set LD_LIBRARY_PATH
## On Solaris we use $ORIGIN (set in RUNPATH) instead of LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
## under dist/bin. To solve the problem, we should rely on LD_LIBRARY_PATH
        LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${MOZ_DIST_BIN}:${MOZ_DIST_BIN}/plugins:${MRE_HOME}${LD_LIBRARY_PATH+":$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"}
if [ -n "$LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64" ]; then
        LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64=${MOZ_DIST_BIN}:${MOZ_DIST_BIN}/plugins:${MRE_HOME}${LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64+":$LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64"}
## Set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH for Mac OS X (Darwin)
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=${MOZ_DIST_BIN}:${MRE_HOME}${DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH+":$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH"}
  echo "  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
  if [ -n "$LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64" ]; then
        echo "LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64"
  echo "DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH"
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export SHLIB_PATH LIBPATH LIBRARY_PATH ADDON_PATH DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH

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No, it doesn't?

| ... on all of my boxes (amd64), it does not ... even on those
| machines where Firefox3 is running, these libs are empty. But I
| realized that those boxes are capable running firefox3 after the
| 'great Xorg-update-catastrophy' have still installed firefox2 ... I
| will check tomorrow at the lab if this do have an influence of the
| proper work abilities of firefox3 when removing the old firefox2.
| 
| When setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH manually, adding /usr/lib/firefox3/, it
| doesn't change the bad situation on the failing CURRENT amd64 box.

All I was saying was that your ldd experiment was... hmm... not
correct (if you agree with mine, of course). 

-- Alex -- alex-goncharov_at_comcast.net --
Received on Sun Feb 01 2009 - 11:56:42 UTC

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