[osol-discuss] Firefox not running without pfexec

[Will Fiveash]

On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 12:32:05AM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>  Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> wrote:
> >> Travis Tabbal wrote:
> >>> Firefox isn't working for me. It says it's starting up, then dies. No 
> >>> errors on the console when run from xterm. I even tried the latest from 
> >>> mozilla.com for OpenSolaris. 
> >> Do you have LD_LIBRARY_PATH set in your environment?   Unset it and
> >> try again, and then understand why we tell you not to do that.
> > Is there a chance that the related bugs introduced around nv117 will be 
> > fixed?
> 
>  Is there a chance you'll file bug reports with enough detail for bugs to
>  be fixed instead of making cryptic comments like this and assuming everyone
>  knows what you're talking about?
> 
> > Note that all the time before there have been no problems and that firefox
> > now fails although LD_* do not try to introduce incompatible libs.
> 
>  The issues I've seen from people with LD_LIBRARY_PATH set are because they 
>  are causing Firefox to load incompatible versions of libsqlite that can't
>  read the data files written by Firefox with the version it normally uses.

That turned out to be an issue for me (setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH in my
.profile).  I noticed that the native firefox on OpenSolaris snv_123
wouldn't start and beadm was also having issues.  I unset
LD_LIBRARY_PATH and restarted my X session and found that firefox and
other misbehaving apps started working properly.  All of which reminds
me what a work colleague once said about the evils of setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
in one's session environment.  It's much more suited to shell script
wrappers.

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