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Author Topic: [EN] Firefox not starting after dist-upgrade today  (Read 2568 times)

Offline charlyheinz

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[EN] Firefox not starting after dist-upgrade today
« on: 2022/12/14, 10:59:12 »
After a fresh DU firefox is not starting anymore.

Issue:
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XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib/firefox/libnssutil3.so:
/usr/lib/firefox/libnssutil3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Couldn't load XPCOM.

Is anybody having the same problem?
« Last Edit: 2022/12/14, 12:29:43 by hendrikL »

Offline Carnophage

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Re: Firefox not starting after dist-upgrade today
« Reply #1 on: 2022/12/14, 11:13:22 »
I didn't update firefox yet, but it looks like there is already a bug created for it: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1026072

Offline edlin

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Re: Firefox not starting after dist-upgrade today
« Reply #2 on: 2022/12/14, 11:34:12 »
Same problem here.
Der Kluge lernt aus allem und von jedem,
der Normale aus seinen Erfahrungen
und der Dumme weiß alles besser.

Sokrates

Offline charlyheinz

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Re: Firefox not starting after dist-upgrade today
« Reply #3 on: 2022/12/14, 11:41:01 »
As told in the bug- report creating the symlinks in /usr/lib/firefox/ as a workaround did the trick, firefox is running again.



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ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnssutil3.so
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss3.so
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmime3.so
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl3.so


thx



« Last Edit: 2022/12/14, 12:24:08 by vinzv »

Offline edlin

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Re: Firefox not starting after dist-upgrade today
« Reply #4 on: 2022/12/14, 12:36:39 »
With the symlinks everything works again, thanks.

edlin
Der Kluge lernt aus allem und von jedem,
der Normale aus seinen Erfahrungen
und der Dumme weiß alles besser.

Sokrates

Offline unklarer

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Re: Firefox not starting after dist-upgrade today
« Reply #5 on: 2022/12/14, 15:48:19 »
@charlyheinz,

if you install the package apt-listbugs, you will see the bug already in the D_U before you hit enter.  :)

Offline DeepDayze

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Re: Firefox not starting after dist-upgrade today
« Reply #6 on: 2022/12/15, 02:27:45 »
I am sure you all will have to remove those symlinks before installing the fixed firefox package once it's pushed out. I had to add them to make FF108 start.

Offline charlyheinz

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Re: Firefox not starting after dist-upgrade today
« Reply #7 on: 2022/12/15, 09:08:06 »
@unklarer

Thanks for the hint. A lot of ruby- packages have to be installed when trying to install apt-listbugs, but for shure it's a good idea to have it running while upgrading the system.

Offline DeepDayze

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Re: Firefox not starting after dist-upgrade today
« Reply #8 on: 2022/12/16, 04:03:54 »
OK, the new package works even after I removed the symlinks I made in /usr/lib/firefox directory before upgrading. Hopefully this all works now for everyone else.

Offline DeepDayze

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Re: Firefox not starting after dist-upgrade today
« Reply #9 on: 2022/12/16, 04:05:43 »
As told in the bug- report creating the symlinks in /usr/lib/firefox/ as a workaround did the trick, firefox is running again.



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ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnssutil3.so
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss3.so
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmime3.so
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl3.so


thx
These should be removed before upgrading to avoid any errors.