[Bug 285529] [NEW] After upgraded to 8.10 firefox doesn't work

[Gerald E Butler]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: xulrunner

After upgrading to 8.10 beta, firefox and epiphany (xulrunner version)
no longer work. Here is what i found:

Hello All,

I just purchased my third laptop through System76, a Pangolin
Performance. It came with Ubunutu 8.04 64-Bit pre-installed.

After receiving it, the first thing I did was to upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10.
After doing so, I am experiencing the following problems:

1. Upon first rebooting after the upgrade, the xorg.conf was messed up
and it went into screen recover mode. After examining the errors and
looking at the xorg.conf file, I found that the upgraded had commented
out the device section for the synaptics touch pad, but, left the
reference to the commented out section in the "ServerLayout" section. I
fixed that and managed to boot up to the desktop with full graphics
enabled.

2. Now, when I try to run firefox or epiphany, it fails. When I run
firefox from the command line, I get the following:

Code:

gbutler at ubuntu:~$ firefox
Couldn't load XPCOM.
gbutler at ubuntu:~$

So, I looked at why I might be getting this error and tried:

Code:

gbutler at ubuntu:~$ xpcshell-1.9 
xpcshell-1.9: error while loading shared libraries: libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
gbutler at ubuntu:~$

OK, now this tells us something. So, I did a search for "libmozjs.so"

Code:

gbutler at ubuntu:/$ sudo find ./ -type f -name "libmozjs.so"
./usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.3/libmozjs.so
./usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.1/libmozjs.so
gbutler at ubuntu:/$

Ah-ha! So it's there, but, not in the library path. So, I next did the
following:

Code:

gbutler at ubuntu:~$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.3/
gbutler at ubuntu:~$ firefox

BAM! That works! OK, so the problem is with an incorrectly configured
installation of "xulrunner". NOTE: Epiphany Webkit version works
correctly obviously.

I've searched the forums and Google and see no evidence that this
problem is being experienced in general. Is anyone else seeing this
issue? I just upgraded to 8.10 last night (October 17, 2008 at around
9:30 PM EDT).


I'm also seeing some additonal problems after the upgrade as follows;

3.1. "Cheese" no longer works. Seems to be having trouble seeing the
camera. Haven't been able to get to the bottom ofthis yet.

3.2. On "shutdown" the screen does a weird sort of thing with a splotchy
dimming area on the screen and then stays white and the laptop doesn't
power down. I have to turn the power off.

3.3. Sounds is awfully quiet, even with the volume control turned all
the way up.

The main thing I want to understand are whether these issues are:

1. Pangolin specific problem/related

2. Ubuntu 8.10 Beta general problem that others are having

3. Something I've done wrong

** Affects: xulrunner (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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After upgraded to 8.10 firefox doesn't work
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