276884 - installation failed: firefox-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/libXft.so.2

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Joseph "What is reality?" Brenner]

(1) Downloaded the firefox 1.0 tarball (firefox-1.0.installer.tar.gz) 
to a user directory: 
  /home/doom/End/Slot/Mozilla

(2) Unpacked it and ran the installer as root: 
  /home/doom/End/Slot/Mozilla/firefox-installer/firefox-installer

(3) Inside the GUI, changed the installation location to: 
   /usr/local/bin/firefox

(4) It asked me if I wanted to delete the existing installation 
   in that location, and I said yes. 

After a number of warning messages (appended below) the istaller dies 
with a relocation error (and subsequent attempts at running firefox die 
in the same way):

   firefox-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/libXft.so.2: undefined symbol:     
   FT_Set_Hint_Flags

This is on an old RedHat 8.0 box, somewhat patched and hacked.
The kernel version is 2.4.20.  Let me know if you'd like more 
information.

Messages from the installation shell are appended here:

[root@crack firefox]# 
/home/doom/End/Slot/Mozilla/firefox-installer/firefox-installer

** (firefox-installer-bin:28770): WARNING **: Invalid UTF8 string passed to
pango_layout_set_text()

** (firefox-installer-bin:28770): WARNING **: Invalid UTF8 string passed to
pango_layout_set_text()

** (firefox-installer-bin:28770): WARNING **: Invalid UTF8 string passed to
pango_layout_set_text()

** (firefox-installer-bin:28770): WARNING **: Invalid UTF8 string passed to
pango_layout_set_text()
[root@crack firefox]# *** nsExtensionManager::_disableObsoleteExtensions -
failure, catching exception so finalize window can close
*** loading the extensions datasource
*** loading the extensions datasource
/usr/local/bin/firefox/firefox-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/libXft.so.2:
undefined symbol: FT_Set_Hint_Flags

[root@crack firefox]# pwd
/usr/local/bin/firefox
[root@crack firefox]# ./firefox &
[1] 28811
[root@crack firefox]# ./firefox-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/libXft.so.2:
undefined symbol: FT_Set_Hint_Flags

[1]+  Exit 127                ./firefox
[root@crack firefox]#

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

What glibc version are you using?

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

firefox binaries from releases are linked against Red Hat 9-ish binaries, so
it's unlikely you'll get it working with Red Hat 8.0

not installer (it ran fine)

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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