gnome-web-photo missing required libxul.so

This also affects shutter as it uses gnome-web-photo for the "website screenshot" feature, and it always reports the incorrect error message generated by gnome-web-photo, even when using it to screenshot very simple websites with long timeouts.

Mario - are you trying to say that this bug does not affect Shutter? Because I'm pretty sure it does.

Well, Shutter only uses gnome-web-photo. Therefore it is not a bug in Shutter's code. If the bug gets fixed in gnome-web-photo or not - nothing has to be changed for Shutter.

Maybe the meaning of "Affects" is not clear enough here.

As far as I understand, "Affect" means - this bug exhibits itself as broken behavior in the following projects..

As in - when this specific bug is in effect, using "take a screenshot of a website" in Shutter always returns a "timeout" even for simple web sites and regardless of what the timeout is.

For example - under Maverick choose "take a screenshot of a website", type "http://www.google.com/" and hit ENTER. Expected result: A screenshot of Google should appear. Actual result: a dialog with the error message described above appears.

That being said, currently I can't reproduce the problem in neither shutter nor gnome-web-photo. Apparently something was fixed.

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. I have confirmed this and I will work on a fix for Maverick. Please report any other issues you may find.

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-web-photo - 0.8-0ubuntu4

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gnome-web-photo (0.8-0ubuntu4) maverick; urgency=low

  * fix LP: #625801 - gnome-web-photo missing required libxul.so; update
    wrapper script to use the current xulrunner-1.9.2 directory instead of
    any directory matching xulrunner-1.9.2*
    - update debian/scripts/gnome-web-photo
  * Explicitely build depend on xulrunner-1.9.2-dev due to change in wrapper
    script
    - update debian/control
  * Drop extra '\' file that got into the diff
    - drop \
 -- Micah Gersten <email address hidden> Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:31:48 -0500

PPA Test bulld here:
https://launchpad.net/~micahg/+archive/sru-test/+sourcepub/1281716/+listing-archive-extra

Lucid debdiff attached, just needs sponsoring

Uploaded to lucid-proposed

Hmmm, why is gnome-web-photo setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH anyway? It looks like it's using the standalone XPCOM glue, so it shouldn't need the GRE directory defined in LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I suspect that might be working around a real bug (ie, directly linking against libxul, which it shouldn't be doing)

So, this is actually using the dependent glue (which is why it's liking against libxul and libxpcom). I'd prefer it if we converted this to use the standalone glue, and then we can drop the wrapper script entirely

Not sure, should we accept the current SRU then, or replace it with something better (cf Chris' comment)?

Chris, Micah, ping?

As I understand it, we'll try to fix this for Natty and then backport when we update to Firefox 4.x.

So I'll reject the current upload for now. Please feel free to reuse the version number.

Accepted gnome-web-photo into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

As a follow up to the xpcom issue, Bug #427817 is already filed, so I'll milestone it for Natty.

Just tried to verify this, new version works, but so does the current one. How do I get multiple xulrunner-1.9.2 directories on my system (as specified in the test case).

You shouldn't be able to in theory, but a failed upgrade might result
in the directory not being removed. If you want to test if it breaks
you can always add a fake directory like this:
sudo mkdir /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2.2/
and watch it fail.

I happen to have an old /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2a1pre directory lying
around.

On 10/24/2010 12:17 PM, Stefano Rivera wrote:
> Just tried to verify this, new version works, but so does the current
> one. How do I get multiple xulrunner-1.9.2 directories on my system (as
> specified in the test case).
>

Righto, happy with that.

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-web-photo - 0.8-0ubuntu3.1

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gnome-web-photo (0.8-0ubuntu3.1) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * fix LP: #625801 - gnome-web-photo missing required libxul.so; update
    wrapper script to use the current xulrunner-1.9.2 directory instead of
    any directory matching xulrunner-1.9.2*
    - update debian/scripts/gnome-web-photo
  * Explicitely build depend on xulrunner-1.9.2-dev due to change in wrapper
    script
    - update debian/control
 -- Micah Gersten <email address hidden> Sun, 12 Sep 2010 10:29:27 +0200

I'm running gnome-web-photo 0.8-0ubuntu5 on Maverick and it still sais it's missing libxul.so. Am I missing something?

Please file a new bug and we'll see what the issue is.

On 10/31/2010 04:24 PM, Serrano Pereira wrote:
> I'm running gnome-web-photo 0.8-0ubuntu5 on Maverick and it still sais
> it's missing libxul.so. Am I missing something?
>

I just filed the new bug: Bug #669620