282514 - firefox reports errors on starting

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jonathan Ryshpan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0

On certain Linux platforms, e.g. FC3, firefox reports these errors when started
from the console:

$ firefox
grep: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object
file: No such fileor directory
sed: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object
file: No such file or directory
cut: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object
file: No such file or directory


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. See above
Actual Results:  
grep: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object
file: No such fileor directory
sed: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object
file: No such file or directory
cut: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object
file: No such file or directory


Expected Results:  
firefox starts without errors.

The problem is that LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 breaks grep, sed, and cut on these
platforms.  You may not need this at all -- I don't think the 2.2 kernel has
been in use for about 4 years.  If you do, the following seems to fix things, at
least on my machine:

$ diff -c /usr/bin/firefox.bk /usr/bin/firefox
*** /usr/bin/firefox.bk Wed Nov 10 22:17:35 2004
--- /usr/bin/firefox    Wed Feb 16 15:04:31 2005
***************
*** 116,130 ****
         fi
      fi

      # export this temporarily - it seems to work with old and new
      # versions of the JVM.
      export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5
!
!     # get the version
!     JVM_VERSION=`$JVM_COMMAND -version 2>&1 | grep version | cut -f 3 -d " " |
sed -e 's/\"//g'`
!
      unset LD_ASSUME_KERNEL

      case "$JVM_VERSION" in
        (1.3.0*)
        # bad JVM
--- 116,131 ----
         fi
      fi

+     # get the version
+
      # export this temporarily - it seems to work with old and new
      # versions of the JVM.
      export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5
!     JVM_INFO=`$JVM_COMMAND -version 2>&1 `
      unset LD_ASSUME_KERNEL

+     JVM_VERSION=`echo $JVM_INFO | grep version | cut -f 3 -d " " | sed -e
's/\"//g'`
+
      case "$JVM_VERSION" in
        (1.3.0*)
        # bad JVM

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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