I've been toying around with mozilla-firefox-bin-3.0 (I use the binary firefox exclusively as my browser due to java plugin requirements) and I noticed that http link handling in thunderbird is broken. I have my preferred application set to use firefox-bin %s in gnome and I've also modified the about:config key (can't remember it off hand) in thunderbird to force it to use firefox-bin. What ends up happening is that it launches firefox, but the browser never displays. Here's the ps output showing it actually launching the firefox-bin commands: 15085 ? S 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher 15095 ? Sl 0:01 \_ /usr/lib64/mozilla-thunderbird/thunderbird-bin 15107 ? S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /opt/firefox/firefox http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/ 15111 ? S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /opt/firefox/run-mozilla.sh /opt/firefox/firefox-bin http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/ 15117 ? S 0:00 \_ /opt/firefox/firefox-bin http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/ mozilla-firefox-bin-2.x works fine however and I've not yet tried mozilla-firefox-3.0 due to other ebuilds that are currently depending on the older 2.x package.
Same here, with mozilla-firefox-bin-3.0 and mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.14 on AMD64. Emerge --info: Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r4 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.24-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r4 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="candy distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://prometheus.cs.wmich.edu/gentoo http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://mirror.usu.edu/mirrors/gentoo/ http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sajinet /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl acpi aiglx aim alsa amd64 artworkextra audiofile avahi bash-completion berkdb branding bzip2 cairo caps cddb cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus divx dri dts dvd dvdnav dvdr dvdread dvi eds emboss encode evo ffmpeg fftw firefox fortran gd gdbm gedit gif gimp glitz glut gmedia gnome gnome-keyring gnutls gps gstreamer gtk gtkhtml hal hddtemp hdf howl howl-compat iconv ieee1394 ipod ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg jpeg2k kerberos lapack laptop latex lcms libnotify libsamplerate libsexy live lm_sensors mad midi mikmod mmx mmxext mng mozbranding mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg mudflap musicbrainz nautilus ncurses nemesi netcdf network networkmanager nls no-old-linux nocd nptl nptlonly nsplugin numeric nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png pppd profile python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline realmedia reflection replytolist rtc sdl session spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification subversion svg syntax sysfs szip t1lib tagwriting tcpd theora threads tiff tk truetype udunits unicode usb v4l v4l2 vorbis wmf wmp wxwindows xcomposite xinerama xml xorg xprint xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I can confirm this on x86, mozilla-firefox-3.0-r1 and mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.14, emerge --info follows: Portage 2.2_rc1 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.2.4, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.25-tuxonice-r5-lean i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.25-tuxonice-r5-lean-i686-Genuine_Intel-R-_CPU_T2300_@_1.66GHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:00:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r5 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.2.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r3 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.62-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.25-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/4.0/env /usr/kde/4.0/share/config /usr/kde/4.0/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks parallel-fetch preserve-libs sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="" LINGUAS="en es" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl acpi aim akode alsa amarok apache2 arts asm avahi avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cddb cdparanoia cdr cdrom cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dlloader doc dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread dvi eap-tls eds emboss encode esd evo exif fam fbsplash ffmpeg firefox flac flash foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimp gimpprint glitz gnome gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv ipod ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kerberos ldap libg++ mad matroska midi mikmod mmx mmxext mp3 mp4 mpeg mpeg2 mplayer mudflap musicbrainz ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl openmp openssl opensslcrypt oss pam pcre pdf pdflib perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl subtitles svg svga tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb v4l vorbis win32codecs x86 xine xml xorg xulrunner xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en es" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I figured out what's causing the problem. I dumped the environment variables for the process launched by thunderbird and set the exact same variables in my shell and immediately noticed that firefox-bin would hang. I started removing environment variables starting with MOZ* variables (since they were set to thunderbird locations) and none of those worked. Proceeded to LD_PRELOAD and LD_LIBRARY_PATH and found that LD_PRELOAD was the problem. Looking at mozilla-launcher script, aoss is used to launch thunderbird which sets LD_PRELOAD=libaoss.so If I modify firefox-bin to unset LD_PRELOAD everything works. Looks like firefox 3 does NOT like aoss/libaoss.so.
err. I shoudl be more clear. I modified /usr/bin/firefox-bin script: #!/bin/sh unset LD_PRELOAD cd "." if [ -n "" ] ; then if [ "${LD_LIBRARY_PATH+set}" = "set" ] ; then export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:" else export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="" fi fi exec /opt/firefox/firefox "$@"
sorry for the flurry of comments. google search finds: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=475166 which has a comment back to Gentoo bug 213080 which is resolved and solves the problem where mozilla-launcher is used to launch firefox-bin (but doesn't solve the problem when something else launched by mozilla-launcher attempts to launch firefox-bin) So this is the same problem as 213080, except that a different unaddressed sequence of events triggers the problem. and also upstream: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435683
Thanks Andy; adding your LD_PRELOAD etc. code to my Firefox launch script works great.
Just a random thought, but since flash is the only binary plugin I recall that directly used OSS API (key word is used) aoss was nice to have when launching moz applications, but do we really need to use aoss to launch thunderbird in mozilla-launcher? Wouldn't it be simpler to exclude aoss, and especially now since flash 9.x is using alsa natively do we still even need aoss for firefox anymore? All the other media plugins that I know of are alsa capable, unless I'm missing something.
*** Bug 232213 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Fixed in 3.0.1-r1
In mozilla-firefox-bin-3.0.1 this bug still exists, so this bug should stay open as it regards the binary version.
(In reply to comment #10) > In mozilla-firefox-bin-3.0.1 this bug still exists, so this bug should stay > open as it regards the binary version. > Eh? I meant i fixed it in www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-3.0.1-r1 . mozilla-firefox(non-bin) doesn't need this fix
I tested it today and it still didn't work. Here all versions: mozilla-firefox-bin-3.0.1 mozilla-thunderbird-bin-2.0.0.14 mozilla-launcher-1.59
(In reply to comment #12) > I tested it today and it still didn't work. > > Here all versions: > mozilla-firefox-bin-3.0.1 > mozilla-thunderbird-bin-2.0.0.14 > mozilla-launcher-1.59 > I said www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-3.0.1-r1 <----- see the -r1? I just commited it 20 mins ago. You'll see an upgrade when the mirrors sync.
Ok. I downloaded the ebuild and it worked. I had to change the protocol handler back to /usr/bin/firefox (from /opt/firefox/firefox)
Sorry, what about firefox-(nonbin) users? Is there also an patch available in the near future?
(In reply to comment #15) > Sorry, what about firefox-(nonbin) users? Is there also an patch available in > the near future? > Yeah, I experience this bug with firefox-(nonbin) as well.
