Closed Bug 278685 Opened 20 years ago Closed 17 years ago

Can't start Thunderbird missing a Lib file.

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Build Config, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Build Config
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: Vampiresmurf, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0

I try to run Thunderbird 1.0 on a Fedora Core 3 (Kernel 2.6.10-1733), and gets
this /thunderbird-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libXp.so.6: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory
 every time I try to start it - Firefox works fine. A fun thing is that the old
Thunderbird 0.9 works fine the same system. 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
On a fedora Core 3
1.Download the ThunderBird.tar.gz file
2.use Gunzip
3.Then use tar -xf
4.
libXp is the xprint library. The copy of thunderbird-bin in the 1.0 tarfile
contains a dependency on this file.

Vampiresmurf, the simplest fix for you would be to install the xprint package.
It's probably included with Fedora Core 3.

Reassigning to build config. I don't know if we have a policy of requiring
Xprint to be installed.
Component: Installer → Build Config
Version: unspecified → 1.0
Might as well confirm this. Xprint isn't listed as a requirement on the linux
system requirements page (http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/sysreq.html).
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Summary: Can't start Thinderbird missing a Lib file. → Can't start Thunderbird missing a Lib file.
(In reply to comment #2)
> Might as well confirm this. Xprint isn't listed as a requirement on the linux
> system requirements page
(http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/sysreq.html).

This isn't really needed as a "requirement" there as stuff like the JAVA plugin
and other parts depend on libXp.so (actually the issue is Fedora-only and should
be reported there...).
You don't need Xprint. What you need is the xorg-x11-deprecated-libs rpm. I
guess installing Xprint installs that rpm as well which is why it fixed the problem.

bug 284444 is the correspodning firefox bug and has more details.
yum install xprint
 or
yum install libstdc++.so.5
 or
yum install "missing lib file"

chilidog@hiwaay.net
semky.org
QA Contact: build
WFM per bug 284444 comment 7
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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