Closed Bug 645070 Opened 14 years ago Closed 14 years ago

Mac OS X 10.5 cannot launch Firefox 4 with command line argument -P

Categories

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect)

x86
macOS
defect
Not set
critical

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()

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 602049

People

(Reporter: jloveridge, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: [bugday-20110513][DUPEME])

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.204 Safari/534.16 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0 I am no longer able to launch Firefox 4 using a specific profile on Leopard. Snow Leopard is unaffected regardless of launching the application in 32-bit or 64-bit mode. This is 100% reproducible via the command line. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a Terminal prompt 2. Execute the following command: /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -P profilename Actual Results: Application crashes. Console output is: dyld: unknown required load command 0x80000022 Trace/BPT trap Mac OS crash reporter provides the following: Process: firefox-bin [581] Path: /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin Identifier: firefox-bin Version: ??? (???) Code Type: X86-64 (Native) Parent Process: bash [161] Interval Since Last Report: 39 sec Crashes Since Last Report: 1 Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 0 sec Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 1 Date/Time: 2011-03-25 11:25:46.975 -0600 OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a) Report Version: 6 Anonymous UUID: E920EAAC-8FF2-4366-B36E-4A2D5F611D4D Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP) Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000 Crashed Thread: 0 Dyld Error Message: unknown required load command 0x80000022 Expected Results: Launch Firefox using the specified profile
Confirmed: $ firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -P Firefox_v40 -no-remote $ dyld: unknown required load command 0x80000022 $ Trace/BPT trap ("Firefox_v40" is my correct profile nickname.) Is it possible this is no longer the way to start Firefox from the OS X command line? (On FF3.6 I used to have to copy run-mozilla.sh from FF3.5, but FF4.0 appears to have one, although it has a lot of diff.)
Ken, The only problem I see in what you are trying to do is that you didn't specify firefox-bin. I have had mixed success trying to pass command line arguments to the firefox binary directly and have always used firefox-bin. Using the exact same command line works for me in OS X 10.6.x. Additionally on 10.6 I am able to launch in either 32-bit or 64-bit mode when using the command line and it honors the command line variables as expected. As an example: to launch in i386 mode on Snow Leopard using your profile you should be able to issue the following command and have it succeed: $ arch -arch i386 /Applications/firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -P Firefox_v40 -no-remote
Looks like the real source of the issue is that when running on Leopard it tries to execute it as an x86-64 binary instead of i386 when run from the command line. I am able to launch from the command line on 10.5.8 when using: $ arch -arch i386 /Applications/firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -P profilename If I do not manually specify the architecture it fails.
"firefox" with "arch" failed; "firefox-bin" without "arch" failed; "firefox-bin" with "arch -arch i386" succeeded; "firefox-bin" with "arch -arch x86_64" failed. But my understanding is that "firefox" sans "-bin" sans "arch" is supposed to work, did work in all versions prior to 4.0 (after restoring run-mozilla.sh to 3.6), and is supposed to be the "proper" way. "firefox" is just a shell script that does some environment stuff and runs run-mozilla.sh which does some more environment stuff and runs firefox-bin; if that environment stuff is neither necessary nor proper, and if the scripts don't work anyway, then why are they there? Also, my Core2Duo MacBook with 10.5.8 is running three 64-bit processes right now: iStatLocal, Wraparound, and SMARTReporter. Shouldn't it be able to run 64-bit Firefox too?
Bumping to Widget: Cocoa, since Josh et al might have some ideas here.
Component: General → Widget: Cocoa
Product: Firefox → Core
QA Contact: general → cocoa
Version: unspecified → Trunk
I have the feeling this is a dupe. Ted, I assume you can help out.
Whiteboard: [bugday-20110513][DUPEME]
Yes. We decided a while ago not to support this. If you want to run the binary from the commandline on 10.5, you'll have to use "arch -arch i386". Everything works fine running the bundle from Finder, which is the use case we care about.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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