1645099 - Latest automatic firefox update requires GLIBC_2.18, not in Centos 7 yet.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1643258

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[chris.moth]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0

Steps to reproduce:

Installed Firefox developer from firefox-78.0b4.tar.bz2 on fully updated CentOS7.
Iniitally it works.

Actual results:

Firefox shows the "applying updates message"
Subsequent gui-attempts to load firefox developer "do nothing"
From command line I see:
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /opt/firefox-developer/firefox/libxul.so:
/lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.18' not found (required by /opt/firefox-developer/firefox/libxul.so)
Couldn't load XPCOM.

Expected results:

Firefox would continue to run on CentOS after applying an update. (Either update should check for needed system libraries - and abort update if not there... or Firefox would hang back on slightly older glibc versions of mainstream releases... or Firefox would include needed glibc in distribution package).

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 2

[Rob Lemley [:rjl]]

I can confirm this is happening for me on Centos 7 with both Firefox 78b9 and Thunderbird78b3.

Comment 3

[Mathew Hodson]

This looks like a duplicate of bug 1643258

Comment 4

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:nalexander, could you have a look please?

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Comment 5

[chris.moth]

The nightly download works again on my CentOS7. Thanks to all for jumping on this one.