Closed Bug 851555 Opened 12 years ago Closed 12 years ago

iceweasel: Debian-Wheezy beta diverts firefox -> iceweasel, mozilla-firefox is not workable anyway

Categories

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Installer
Version:
17 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 723487

People

(Reporter: aglaeser1, Unassigned)

Details

(Keywords: 64bit, arch)

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.12 Iceweasel/10.0.12 Build ID: 20130108202048 Steps to reproduce: andreas@s-450:~$ sudo apt-get remove iceweasel Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: iceweasel 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded. After this operation, 6,570 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? (Reading database ... 172624 files and directories currently installed.) Removing iceweasel ... Removing 'diversion of /usr/bin/firefox to /usr/bin/firefox.real by iceweasel' Processing triggers for menu ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus ... Processing triggers for mime-support ... andreas@s-450:~$ tar -xjvf firefox-17.0.4esr.tar.bz2 firefox/ firefox/mozilla-xremote-client firefox/platform.ini firefox/libsoftokn3.chk firefox/libnssckbi.so firefox/libxul.so firefox/crashreporter-override.ini firefox/libxpcom.so firefox/libmozsqlite3.so firefox/crashreporter.ini firefox/update-settings.ini firefox/webapprt-stub firefox/icons/ firefox/icons/updater.png firefox/icons/mozicon128.png firefox/libplds4.so firefox/extensions/ firefox/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}/ firefox/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}/icon.png firefox/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}/install.rdf firefox/application.ini firefox/Throbber-small.gif firefox/chrome/ firefox/chrome/icons/ firefox/chrome/icons/default/ firefox/chrome/icons/default/default16.png firefox/chrome/icons/default/default32.png firefox/chrome/icons/default/default48.png firefox/libsmime3.so firefox/firefox-bin firefox/omni.ja firefox/dependentlibs.list firefox/defaults/ firefox/defaults/pref/ firefox/defaults/pref/channel-prefs.js firefox/defaults/preferences/ firefox/libnssdbm3.chk firefox/blocklist.xml firefox/libnssutil3.so firefox/libnssdbm3.so firefox/precomplete firefox/updater firefox/run-mozilla.sh firefox/components/ firefox/components/binary.manifest firefox/components/libdbusservice.so firefox/components/libmozgnome.so firefox/components/libbrowsercomps.so firefox/components/libnkgnomevfs.so firefox/libplc4.so firefox/plugin-container firefox/updater.ini firefox/libnspr4.so firefox/chrome.manifest firefox/webapprt/ firefox/webapprt/webapprt.ini firefox/webapprt/omni.ja firefox/webapprt/components/ firefox/removed-files firefox/searchplugins/ firefox/searchplugins/eBay-en-GB.xml firefox/searchplugins/wikipedia.xml firefox/searchplugins/yahoo-en-GB.xml firefox/searchplugins/twitter.xml firefox/searchplugins/google.xml firefox/searchplugins/bing.xml firefox/searchplugins/amazon-en-GB.xml firefox/searchplugins/chambers-en-GB.xml firefox/libsoftokn3.so firefox/libmozalloc.so firefox/firefox firefox/libfreebl3.chk firefox/libfreebl3.so firefox/libssl3.so firefox/libnss3.so firefox/crashreporter IE8-WindowsXP-x86-DEU.exe andreas@s-450:~$ cd firefox andreas@s-450:~/firefox$ ./firefox XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /home/andreas/firefox/libxpcom.so: libxul.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Couldn't load XPCOM. andreas@s-450:~/firefox$ cd .. andreas@s-450:~$ sudo apt-get install iceweasel Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: mozplugger libgssapi-krb5-2 libkrb53 The following NEW packages will be installed: iceweasel 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/1,455 kB of archives. After this operation, 6,570 kB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously unselected package iceweasel. (Reading database ... 172478 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking iceweasel (from .../iceweasel_10.0.12esr-1_amd64.deb) ... Adding 'diversion of /usr/bin/firefox to /usr/bin/firefox.real by iceweasel' Processing triggers for mime-support ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ... Processing triggers for menu ... Setting up iceweasel (10.0.12esr-1) ... update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/iceweasel to provide /usr/bin/x-www-browser (x-www-browser) in auto mode update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/iceweasel to provide /usr/bin/gnome-www-browser (gnome-www-browser) in auto mode Processing triggers for menu ... andreas@s-450:~$ aptitude show mozplugger No current or candidate version found for mozplugger Package: mozplugger State: not a real package andreas@s-450:~$ aptitude show libgssapi-krb5-2 Package: libgssapi-krb5-2 State: installed Automatically installed: no Multi-Arch: same Version: 1.10.1+dfsg-4 Priority: standard Section: libs Maintainer: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Uncompressed Size: 344 k Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libcomerr2 (>= 1.34), libk5crypto3 (>= 1.8+dfsg), libkeyutils1, libkrb5-3 (= 1.10.1+dfsg-4), libkrb5support0 (>= 1.7dfsg~beta2) PreDepends: multiarch-support Suggests: krb5-doc, krb5-user Breaks: libgssglue1 (< 0.2-2), libgssglue1 (< 0.2-2), libgssapi-krb5-2 (!= 1.10.1+dfsg-4) Replaces: libgssapi-krb5-2 (< 1.10.1+dfsg-4) Description: MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - krb5 GSS-API Mechanism Kerberos is a system for authenticating users and services on a network. Kerberos is a trusted third-party service. That means that there is a third party (the Kerberos server) that is trusted by all the entities on the network (users and services, usually called "principals"). This is the MIT reference implementation of Kerberos V5. This package contains the runtime library for the MIT Kerberos implementation of GSS-API used by applications and Kerberos clients. Homepage: http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/ andreas@s-450:~$ aptitude show libkrb53 No current or candidate version found for libkrb53 Package: libkrb53 State: not a real package Actual results: Firefox is not workable on Debian Wheezy beta. I chose to show this with the ESR 17 - version, because this probably matches dabian better than the current 'stable' version 19. If I wanted to report this as an iceweasel-issue in Debian it would look like this: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: andreas glaeser <andreas@s-450.lokal> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org> Subject: iceweasel: Debian-Wheezy beta diverts firefox -> iceweasel, mozilla-firefox not workable anyway Bcc: andreas glaeser <andreas@s-450.lokal> Package: iceweasel Version: 10.0.12esr-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the outcome of this action? * What outcome did you expect instead? *** End of the template - remove these lines *** -- Package-specific info: -- Extensions information Name: Adblock Plus Location: /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/{d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d} Package: xul-ext-adblock-plus Status: enabled Name: Default theme Location: /usr/lib/iceweasel/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd} Package: iceweasel Status: enabled Name: Ghostery Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/firefox@ghostery.com Status: enabled Name: HTTPS-Everywhere Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/https-everywhere@eff.org Status: enabled -- Plugins information Name: Gnome Shell Integration Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libgnome-shell-browser-plugin.so Package: gnome-shell Status: enabled Name: iTunes Application Detector Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so Package: rhythmbox-plugins Status: enabled Name: Shockwave Flash Location: /usr/lib/gnash/libgnashplugin.so Package: browser-plugin-gnash Status: enabled -- Addons package information ii browser-plugin 0.8.11~git20 amd64 GNU Shockwave Flash (SWF) player ii gnome-shell 3.4.2-7 amd64 graphical shell for the GNOME des ii iceweasel 10.0.12esr-1 amd64 Web browser based on Firefox ii rhythmbox-plug 2.97-2.1 amd64 plugins for rhythmbox music playe ii xul-ext-adbloc 2.1-1 all Advertisement blocking extension -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.8.0adt Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages iceweasel depends on: ii debianutils 4.3.2 ii fontconfig 2.9.0-7.1 ii libc6 2.13-38 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1 pn libglib2.0-0 <none> ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.10-2 ii libnspr4 2:4.9.2-1 ii libnspr4-0d 2:4.9.2-1 pn libsqlite3-0 <none> ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-5 ii procps 1:3.3.3-2 ii xulrunner-10.0 10.0.12esr-1 iceweasel recommends no packages. Versions of packages iceweasel suggests: ii fonts-stix [otf-stix] 1.1.0-1 pn libgssapi-krb5-2 | libkrb53 <none> pn mozplugger <none> Versions of packages xulrunner-10.0 depends on: ii libasound2 1.0.25-4 ii libatk1.0-0 2.4.0-2 pn libbz2-1.0 <none> ii libc6 2.13-38 pn libcairo2 <none> ii libdbus-1-3 1.6.8-1 ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.100.2-1 pn libevent-2.0-5 <none> ii libfontconfig1 2.9.0-7.1 ii libfreetype6 2.4.9-1.1 ii libgcc1 1:4.7.2-5 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1 pn libglib2.0-0 <none> ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.10-2 ii libhunspell-1.3-0 1.3.2-4 ii libjpeg8 8d-1 ii libmozjs10d 10.0.12esr-1 ii libnotify4 0.7.5-1 ii libnspr4-0d 2:4.9.2-1 ii libnss3-1d 2:3.13.6-2 ii libpango1.0-0 1.30.0-1 pn libpixman-1-0 <none> pn libreadline6 <none> pn libsqlite3-0 <none> ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-1 ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-5 ii libvpx1 1.1.0-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1 ii libxext6 2:1.3.1-2 ii libxrender1 1:0.9.7-1 ii libxt6 1:1.1.3-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13 Versions of packages xulrunner-10.0 suggests: ii libcanberra0 0.28-6 ii libgnomeui-0 2.24.5-2 -- no debconf information *** ---- Because firefox is not runnable, I set up iceweasel again in order to be able to file this report. Expected results: Users should be able to install the Firefox-browser either in the ESR-version or in the current stable version instead of iceweasel. It s currently OK in my opinion as long as Wheezy is still in beta state, but once it is released as stable, version 10 will be quite outdated already considering the fast paced development in internet-technology. I imagine that some web-developers will want to have a more recent firefox-version on Debian Wheezy in order to be up to date with current web-technologies and -standards. So please make this possible again. This page about Firefox-Linux-install was not helpfull and I told you so before: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux When trying to set up the most recent iceweasel-version from Debian experimental, it will not work either, because of unmet dependencies: andreas@s-450:~$ sudo apt-get install -t experimental iceweasel Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: iceweasel : Depends: xulrunner-19.0 (>= 19.0.2-1) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. ---- So overall more recent Firefox/Iceweasel versions are not installable or not usable due to dependency-problems or would require mixing of different distribution-branches and this is asking for trouble, that average users do not want to have, so I do not either.
(In reply to Andreas Glaeser from comment #0) >libxul.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory This is bug 723487, which is marked as fixed, but without a patch. Could you try following the guidelines in the last couple 10-15 comments? Those seemed to do the trick for most people.
Component: Untriaged → Startup and Profile System
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
This was really just an issue of wrong architecture. I fetched the AMD64-Version here: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/17.0.4esr/linux-x86_64/en-GB/ and this is doing fine now. But still I think that things should work by default and users should not be made run into trouble, so when downloading Firefox here: https://www.mozilla.org/de/download/?product=firefox-19.0.2&os=linux&lang=de the correct architecture should be detectable, i.e. wether it is i486-32bit or AMD64-64bit.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Component: Startup and Profile System → Installer
Keywords: 64bit, arch
Product: Toolkit → Firefox
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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