244189 - Failed to install and initialize due to no libstdc++.so.5

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core Graveyard :: Talkback Client, defect)

Description

[Marko Kohtala]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514

Talkback seems to depend on libstdc++.so.5. This is newer than what is available
on latest stable Debian distro.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install using mozilla-installer
2. Run

Actual Results:  
During mozilla-installer I get this several times:

nsNativeComponentLoader: SelfRegisterDll(talkback.so) Load FAILED with error:
libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

During startup of mozilla, I get this "(QFA)Talkback error: Can't initialize.". I 

Expected Results:  
No newer libstdc++ required.

I run Debian 3.0 and have libstdc++.so.3.

Comment 1

[chris hofmann]

so it looks like talkback installations might get more complex if we try to
support a wide variety of linux distros...

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

mozilla itself avoids this problem by statically linking that library, afaik

Comment 3

[tenthumbs]

And when distros start shipping gcc 3.4 you'll have to deal with 
libstdc++.so.6.

Comment 4

[Márton Németh]

*** Bug 246513 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Márton Németh]

I'm using Debian 3.0 (Woody) with libstdc++.so.3.0.4 . 

QFA can run with this version of libstdc++ too, after some hacking:

$ ln -s /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.3 libstdc++.so.5
$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.
$ mozilla -splash

Now the error message disappears. The QFA is invoked only when something goes
wrong. This can be simulated sending a SIGSEGV signal to mozilla-bin process:

$ killall -11 mozilla-bin 

and the QFA starts (do NOT send this bug report this time, because it is only a
simulation!)

Comment 6

[Robin Monks]

*** Bug 258871 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 8

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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