Ubuntu
firefox package

libmozjs.so not found on Dapper Install

Bug #64577 reported by Martin J Hooper
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Bug Description

Installed Firefox 1.5.0.7 from Dapper Security Updates. Running on an i686

Firefox did not run at all.

Did a bit of digging and this was the error I discovered.

martin@Anne ~ $ /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin
/usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

martin@Anne ~ $ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-ubuntu0.6.06
  Candidate: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-ubuntu0.6.06
  Version table:
 *** 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-ubuntu0.6.06 0
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.3-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages

Sources.list

deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted

deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe multiverse
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe multiverse

deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted
# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe

deb http://kubuntu.org/packages/amarok-143 dapper main
deb http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.5.4/kubuntu dapper main

Revision history for this message
Daniel Robitaille (robitaille) wrote :

A better executable to use to start firefox from the command line is
"/usr/lib/firefox/firefox" instead of "/usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin". THe former is a shell script that setup some environment stuff and then call the later.

Does /usr/lib/firefox/libmozjs.so exists on your system? It should be there, and on my system, it is installed via that same firefox package that you have on yours computer:

$ ls -l /usr/lib/firefox/libmozjs.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 620708 2006-09-21 03:27 /usr/lib/firefox/libmozjs.so

$ dpkg -S /usr/lib/firefox/libmozjs.so
firefox: /usr/lib/firefox/libmozjs.so

$ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-ubuntu0.6.06
  Candidate: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-ubuntu0.6.06
  Version table:
 *** 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-ubuntu0.6.06 0
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.3-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages

Changed in firefox:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
Revision history for this message
Martin J Hooper (martinjh) wrote :

I was using firefox-bin to get some diagnostics as the script you mentioned was not loading FF either.

The file does exist on my system.

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 620708 2006-09-21 11:27 /usr/lib/firefox/libmozjs.so

Revision history for this message
Daniel Robitaille (robitaille) wrote :

Running the firefox-bin binary directly is incorrect, and it will not work. I can reproduce this on my computer:

$ /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin
/usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

But what is the exact error you get when you run /usr/lib/firefox/firefox from the command line? It should work.

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Martin J Hooper (martinjh) wrote :

Nothing at all. Just the prompt appearing again.

Firefox does not run at all. No hard disk activity I can see.

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Martin J Hooper (martinjh) wrote :

Just remembered - The mozilla.com download doesn't work either. Tried the Ubuntu package just to make sure it wasn't something to do with the download.

Daniel Robitaille (robitaille)
Changed in firefox:
status: Needs Info → Unconfirmed
Revision history for this message
Martin J Hooper (martinjh) wrote :

Can you close this bug please - Found out that it is the self-compiled style/decoration that I was using that was stopping FF from loading for some reason.

Revision history for this message
Daniel Robitaille (robitaille) wrote :

Ok. Closing.

Changed in firefox:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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