227105 - On redhat 8 latest nightly mozilla won't start. Complains about pthreads GLIBC_2.3.2

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[Aaron Sloman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031110
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031125

The exact message is
 ./mozilla-bin: /lib/libpthread.so.0: version `GLIBC_2.3.2' not found (required
by /usr/local/src/mozilla-nov-25-03/mozilla/libnspr4.so)

Note: I don't have relevant technical knowledge and know nothing about pthreads.
I try the nightly builds from time merely as a contribution to testing.

I have also tried this on a laptop running Redhat 9 with upgraded kernel 2.4.22
and it works there.

So maybe whoever built the newest version is using a recent version of linux
that not everyone has. (E.g. computer officers in my department are not yet
willing to upgrade from RH 8 because of workloads!)

Incidentally this version works fine on the redhat 8 machine.
   Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031110

I am using it to report this problem.

Thanks.
Aaron
==
Aaron Sloman
www.cs.bhma.ac.uk/~axs

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. fetch tar.gz file
2.  extract mozilla, and cd mozilla
3. ./mozilla

Actual Results:  
Described above. It doesn't start.

Expected Results:  
It should start!

N/A

(In case anyone interested is reading this I shall separately 
report as a bug the new "feature" in 1.6b which requires me 
EVERY time to say whether I want to work online or offline,
even though I have a permanently connected cable modem link
and I practically never want to do anything offline.)

Comment 1

[Frank Weberskirch]

I have the same problem with the download from 25-Nov-2003 on a SuSE 8.1 system
(which has glibc 2.2.5):

> # ./mozilla
./mozilla-bin: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by
./mozilla-bin)
./mozilla-bin: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by
/usr/local/mozilla-nightly/libmozjs.so)
./mozilla-bin: /lib/libpthread.so.0: version `GLIBC_2.3.2' not found (required
by /usr/local/mozilla-nightly/libnspr4.so)
./mozilla-bin: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by
/usr/local/mozilla-nightly/libnspr4.so)

=> Cannot use rv1.6b on this machine - going back to rv1.5

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Same problem as bug 227063, I'd guess?

What distribution is the machine doing the nightlies using, and what was it before?

Comment 3

[Frank Weberskirch]

One additional observation: The same problem occurs with
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/2003-12-04-0.4/thunderbird-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.bz2

on my SuSE 8.1 machine

> # ./thunderbird
./thunderbird-bin: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by
/home/software/mozilla/thunderbird/libmozjs.so)
./thunderbird-bin: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by
/home/software/mozilla/thunderbird/libxpcom.so)
./thunderbird-bin: /lib/libpthread.so.0: version `GLIBC_2.3.2' not found
(required by /home/software/mozilla/thunderbird/libnspr4.so)
./thunderbird-bin: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by
/home/software/mozilla/thunderbird/libnspr4.so)

Comment 4

[Daniel (Leaf) Nunes]

I'm hoping dbaron is right, but i'm not sure. Regardless, i need to fix the
known problem first, so this bug is blocked by 227063 regardless.

Comment 5

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

This is actually probably the result of making the builds on a RH9 machine.

Comment 6

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/nightly/2003-12-08-14-trunk/
should be better.  Please test.

Comment 7

[Frank Weberskirch]

That's it:  
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208
=> runs again on my SuSE 8.1 machine.
Thanks!

Comment 8

[Daniel (Leaf) Nunes]

Thanks, dbaron.

Comment 9

[Bryan]

Hi,
I did it because it is resolved fixed and we need to ship 1.6b out asap.
Status:   	RESOLVED 	   	  	     	 
Resolution: 	FIXED

Comment 10

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

We held the release for it, so it was a blocker.  Please don't modify flags that
you shouldn't be touching.

Comment 11

[Aaron Sloman]

>------- Additional Comment #6 From David Baron 2003-12-08 14:25 -------
>
>http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/nightly/2003-12-08-14-trunk/
>should be better.  Please test.

I've just tried it on redhat 8. Seems OK.

I wish I could stop it asking me whether to start online, however.
Are there really people who want this every time?

Comment 12

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

So the fix wasn't quite right.  Could those of you who are interested test the
build at:

http://mozilla.oregonstate.edu/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/tinderbox-builds/comet/
(That's the one of the ftp.mozilla.org mirrors that I know has updated already.)

Comment 13

[Bryan]

Hi,
Mozilla 1.6 beta has been released.

Comment 14

[Aaron Sloman]

In Comment #12 David Baron wrote
> So the fix wasn't quite right.  Could those of you who are interested test the
> build at:

> http://mozilla.oregonstate.edu/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/tinderbox-builds/comet/

This now works on RH 8 but still asks whether to start online or offline every
time, and 'mozilla -help' gives no option to suppress this.

In Comment #13  Bryan wrote

> Hi,
> Mozilla 1.6 beta has been released.

This seems to be an earlier version than the above. It also runs on Rh 8,but
(a) also asks the use to select online/offline when it starts, 
and
(b) prints out:

LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
/usr/local/java142beta/j2re1.4.2/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so
[/usr/local/java142beta/j2re1.4.2/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so:
undefined symbol: _ZdlPv]