699966 - XULRunner runtime package doesn't work on Mac OS X

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Toolkit Graveyard :: XULRunner, defect)

Description

[Kazuho Okui]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1
Build ID: 20110928134238

Steps to reproduce:

I installed XULRunner runtime 7.0.1 from http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/releases/. But xulrunner-bin doesn't work as I expected. I followed this instruction. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Getting_started_with_XULRunner

Steps to reproduce:
1) Install http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/releases/7.0.1/runtimes/xulrunner-7.0.1.en-US.mac-pkg.dmg
2) /Library/Frameworks/XUL.framework.xul/runner-bin --app application.ini does not work
3) (cd /Library/Frameworks/XUL.framework/Versions/Current; ./xulrunner-bin --app $(APP_PATH)/application.ini) does have same result (no app runnning, no log)
4) (cd /Library/Frameworks/XUL.framework/Versions/Current; ./xulrunner-bin --install-app $(APP_PATH)/application.ini $(APP_PATH) does work, sort of. It setup application directory structure, copy files. But when I click app icon, (or run App.app/Contents/MacOS/xulrunner)  It says "Could not find the Mozilla runtime."

I set LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but it won't help. I also copy files from /Library/Frameworks/XUL.framework/Versions/Current/* to app/Contents/MacOS, but got same result.

Comment 1

[Kazuho Okui]

I also tried several other old version, but got same result. The same app works fine XULRunner 2.0 on Mac, all version on Windows.

Comment 2

[bovinespirit]

This has been mentioned on Stack Overflow and in other places.  My application.ini works when run with 'Firefox -app' but XULRunner doesn't do anything.  No errors, it just exits.

xulrunner-bin -v gives: "Mozilla XULRunner <Error> - <Error>"

I've tried binary releases 10, 11 and upcoming 13 with the same results.

Comment 3

[nikitok]

I have the same problem on Mac OS Lion x64

Comment 4

[Roberto]

I have the same problem, using the latest XULRunner 11 (stable).
If I launch the application with Firefox 11 all works fine, but directly from xulrunner-bin nothing happens.

"xulrunner-bin -v" shows:
"Mozilla XULRunner <Error> - <Error>".

I use a MacOS Lion 1.7.3 x64

Comment 5

[David Finch]

Same here, also on Lion. 1.9.2.16 works fine (checked an hour ago). But XULRunner 11 exits silently if I try to --install-app, and gives the same error as above with -v. No errors appear in the system log.

Comment 6

[Okello Nelson]

I'm new to Mac, using Mac OS 10.5 and XULRunner 11.0. When I run xulrunner-bin with no switch, it displays help, but xulrunner with any other switch fails. Trying to run the application fails silently with no error displayed.

Comment 7

[michael]

same behavior on OS X 10.7.3 (three different machines) while attempting to install/run the demo from the tutorial. Firefox will load it, but not xulrunner-bin version 12

Comment 8

[richardson.balcacer]

I'm having the same behaviour. Running OSX 10.6, xulrunner 16.0.2, no results from running an app. I ran the framework under dtruss in the following manner:

dtruss -f -t open /Library/Frameworks/XUL.framework/xulrunner `pwd`/application.ini

returned:

	PID/THRD  SYSCALL(args) 		 = return
  912/0x38b4:  open("/usr/lib/dtrace/libdtrace_dyld.dylib\0", 0x0, 0x0)		 = 3 0
  912/0x38b4:  open("/Library/Frameworks/XUL.framework/Versions/16.0.2/libmozglue.dylib\0", 0x0, 0x0)		 = 3 0
  912/0x38b4:  open("/dev/dtracehelper\0", 0x2, 0x100440610)		 = 4 0
  912/0x38b4:  open("/Library/Frameworks/XUL.framework/libxpcom.dylib\0", 0x0, 0x0)		 = 3 0
  912/0x38b4:  open("/dev/dtracehelper\0", 0x2, 0x7FFF5FC497C0)		 = 3 0
  912/0x38b4:  open("/Library/Frameworks/XUL.framework/xulrunner\0", 0x0, 0x1FF)		 = 3 0
  912/0x38b4:  open("/Library/Frameworks/XUL.framework/Versions/16.0.2/libnspr4.dylib\0", 0x0, 0x0)		 = 4 0
  912/0x38b4:  open("/Library/Frameworks/XUL.framework/Versions/16.0.2/libplc4.dylib\0", 0x0, 0x0)		 = 4 0
  912/0x38b4:  open("/Library/Frameworks/XUL.framework/Versions/16.0.2/libplds4.dylib\0", 0x0, 0x0)		 = 4 0
  912/0x38b4:  open("/Library/Frameworks/XUL.framework/Versions/16.0.2/libnssutil3.dylib\0", 0x0, 0x0)		 = 4 0
  912/0x38b4:  open("/Library/Frameworks/XUL.framework/Versions/16.0.2/libnss3.dylib\0", 0x0, 0x0)		 = 4 0
  912/0x38b4:  open("/Library/Frameworks/XUL.framework/Versions/16.0.2/libsmime3.dylib\0", 0x0, 0x0)		 = 4 0
  912/0x38b4:  open("/Library/Frameworks/XUL.framework/Versions/16.0.2/libssl3.dylib\0", 0x0, 0x0)		 = 4 0
  912/0x38b4:  open("/Library/Frameworks/XUL.framework/Versions/16.0.2/libmozsqlite3.dylib\0", 0x0, 0x0)	 = 4 0
  912/0x38b4:  open("/Library/Frameworks/XUL.framework/Versions/16.0.2/libmozalloc.dylib\0", 0x0, 0x0)		 = 4 0
  912/0x38b4:  open("/Library/Frameworks/XUL.framework/Versions/16.0.2/XUL\0", 0x0, 0x0)		 = 4 0

Pity that nobody is working on this bug.

Comment 9

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Do any errors appear in the OSX system console when you attempt to run your app?

Comment 10

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

I tried to run ChatZilla against XULRunner 16.0.2 on OSX 10.8, based on http://chatzilla.rdmsoft.com/xulrunner/. I'd unpacked the xr tar.bz2 in /Library/Frameworks/, given it's not an mpkg any more. The calls to --install-app failed with no output, and exit code 2.

Comment 11

[Benjamin Smedberg]

XULRunner has been removed from the Mozilla tree: see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/_rFMunG2Bgw for context.

I am closing all the bugs currently in the XULRunner bugzilla component, in preparation for moving this component to the graveyard. If this bug is still valid in a XULRunner-less world, it will need to be moved to a different bugzilla component to be reopened.