33581 - M14 won't run on Corel Linux.

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: XPCOM, defect, P3)

Description

[Ben Collins-Sussman]

I've noticed bugs already posted about M14 not running on Caldera or Debian
Linux;  just add Corel Linux to the list.  Corel Linux is actually a variant
on Debian 2.1 anyway, so if you fix Debian portability, you'll probably fix
Corel as well.

When I unpack and run M14 I get:

[bsussman@minos:/pub/package]$ ./mozilla
.//run-mozilla.sh ./mozilla-bin
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/pub/package
 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/pub/package:/usr/local/lib::/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/nspr/lib:/pub/oit
       SHLIB_PATH=/pub/package
          LIBPATH=/pub/package:.:/lib:/usr/lib
      MOZ_PROGRAM=./mozilla-bin
      MOZ_TOOLKIT=
        moz_debug=0
     moz_debugger=
./mozilla-bin: error in loading shared libraries
/pub/package/libxpcom.so: undefined symbol: __rawmemchr

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

-> XPCom for a look.  maybe this is a packaging issue/ Build COnfig?

Comment 2

[Suresh Duddi (gone)]

I have no clue what this is. Scott ?

Comment 3

[Suresh Duddi (gone)]

Meant to reassign to scc...

Comment 4

[Kevin Puetz]

I'm sure it's just the ancient libraries of Debian 2.1. They (and corel) don't
have glibc2.1, which mozilla to my knowledge flatly requires. There are thread
bugs in glibc2.0 that cause major suffering when mozilla pushes the c lib, and I
think the decision nsus was that it was just hardly possible and certainly not
useful to work around them (mozilla could effectively end up single-threaded).
I'm think this is probably wontfix but I'll leave that up to scc to decide.

sussman, corel for all it's shiny-newness has ancient versions of the core
system libs. I'd recommend a different distro... Mandrake maybe as the
next-easiest to install...

Comment 5

[Ben Collins-Sussman]

Thanks for the quick feedback, guys.  I feel better at least knowing that it's 
a libc issue.  It's your call at this point.

Btw, I'm actually an experienced Debian user;  I installed Corel at work 
because I was curious to see if/how they bastardized the Debian distro. :)
Keep in mind that despite the fact that Debian 2.1 ("slink") has an old version 
of glibc, there's still a huge user base -- it's still the offical 'stable' 
release, and my impression is that most of the user base tends to be 
conservative about upgrades.  

Of course, this point may be totally moot by the time Mozilla hits beta.  The 
current unstable Debian ("potato") has gone into feature-freeze and will be 
probably be released as the new 'stable' by summer.  Poof, the glibc problem 
goes away.

One last comment:  kudos to the whole Mozilla team.  I haven't run Mozilla 
since milestone 7 or so, and it crashed like mad.  I used M14 on a RedHat 6.1 
box today -- all day long -- and it only crashed twice.  There's light at the 
end of the tunnel!  Keep up the good work.

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Resolving INVALID based on comments; glibc problem.

Gerv

Comment 7

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

- Per last comments, age of bug, and no reopen - Marking Verified/invalid.  
Please reopen if still a problem.

Comment 8

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

verified