683436 - Symbolic link of firefox can't load XPCOM

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Kengo Tsukamoto]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:7.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0
Build ID: 20110824172139

Steps to reproduce:

I use Vine Linux 6.0 i686 Japanese.

download firefox 7.0b2 for linux i686.
uncompress this archive to /usr/local/bin/firefox.

make a symbolic link.
# ln -s /usr/local/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

PATH OK
# which firefox
/usr/bin/firefox



Actual results:

Run firefox symbolic link.
$ firefox
Couldn't load XPCOM.

I did strace command.
$ strace firefox
... snip ...
open("/usr/local/bin/libxpcom.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
write(2, "Couldn't load XPCOM.\n"..., 21Couldn't load XPCOM.
) = 21
exit_group(255)                         = ?


But I run firefox directly, firefox launched normally.
( $ /usr/local/bin/firefox/firefox )

I did strace too.
$ strace firefox /usr/local/bin/firefox/firefox
... snip ...
open("/usr/local/bin/firefox/libxpcom.so", O_RDONLY) = 3
... snip ...

libxpcom.so included in /usr/local/bin/firefox directory.
When I run symbolic link, firefox reads incorrect path.

Sorry for bad English...

Comment 1

[Kengo Tsukamoto]

Sorry.
I wrote a wrong command line.

make a symbolic link.
# ln -s /usr/local/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

-> # ln -s /usr/local/bin/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

Comment 2

[andré]

whoever has privileges should close this as invalid (see comment 1)