1441449 - Updater bricks installation on Ubuntu 14.04

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1434666

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto [:gcp]]

Ubuntu 14.04.0 (no updates)

1) Install non-current 64-bit Nightly into a writable dir (firefox-60.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2)
2) Launch Nightly
3) Wait until green update arrow shows up
4) Click "Restart to update Nightly"
5) Nothing will happen, the installation is bricked.

The installation can be recovered by removing the "updates" dir, but cannot update.

/opt/firefox/updates/0/updater: error while loading shared libraries: libmozsqlite3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

morbo@kaveri:/opt/firefox$ ldd /opt/firefox/updates/0/updater
	linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fffba9f0000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f107a970000)
	libnss3.so => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss3.so (0x00007f107a630000)
	libnssutil3.so => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnssutil3.so (0x00007f107a400000)
	libsmime3.so => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmime3.so (0x00007f107a1d0000)
	libmozsqlite3.so => not found

morbo@kaveri:/opt/firefox$ ldd firefox
	linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007ffc71c00000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fe377740000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fe377538000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fe377330000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fe377018000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fe376d10000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fe376af8000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fe376728000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fe377960000)

This looks like wrong linking in the updater, or a missing LD_LIBRARY_PATH wrapper.

Comment 1

[Molly Howell (she/her) (mostly inactive)]

Bug 1434666 recently changed how the LD_LIBRARY_PATH for the updater is set; Arthur, do you think this could be related to that patch?

Comment 2

[Arthur Edelstein [:arthur]]

Thanks for finding this and letting me know, Gian-Carlo and Matt. I confirmed the first nightly build where this breaks (on 64-bit Linux) is

https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/2018/02/2018-02-16-10-40-33-mozilla-central/firefox-60.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2

which does suggest it likely came from Bug 1434666. I have submitted a request to back the patch our for now and I will investigate what is going wrong.

Comment 3

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

This should be fixed with bug 1434666 backed out.