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Bug 249978

Summary: www-client/epiphany-2.24.2.1-r10: Epiphany can't be used now. Mozilla initialization failed.
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Eric Siegel <eric>
Component: [OLD] GNOMEAssignee: Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: major    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: AMD64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Eric Siegel 2008-12-05 21:11:54 UTC
I've installed www-client/epiphany-2.24.2.1-r10 and net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.0.4-r1, but when I attempt to open epiphany, I get an error: 'Epiphany can't be used now. Mozilla initialization failed.'

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge =www-client/epiphany-2.24.2.1-r10 =net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.0.4-r1
2. Launch epiphany

Actual Results:  
'Epiphany can't be used now. Mozilla initialization failed.'

Expected Results:  
Epiphany should have opened, and have been using the gecko-1.9 (xulrunner 1.9) backend.

Portage 2.1.4.5 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ 2.50GHz
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:33:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6
dev-lang/python:     2.5.2-r7
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.2
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, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
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=core2 -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.rit.edu/gentoo/ "
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
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/Spring /usr/portage/local/layman/java-overlay /usr/portage/local/layman/desktop-effects"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi aiglx alsa amd64 aoss asf berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo fam ffmpeg fontconfig fortran gcj gdbm gif glitz gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv isdnlog java jpeg ldap libffi libnotify mad matroska midi mikmod mmx mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses new-login nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3support quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session skins spell spl sqlite sse sse2 sse3 ssl startup-notification svg symlink sysfs tcpd threads tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis wxwindows x264 xcb xcomposite xine xinerama xml xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci 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 mmap_emul 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 evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint i810 intel mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa vga via vmware voodoo"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Comment 1 Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev 2008-12-06 05:56:08 UTC
You probably have launched epiphany as root, and it created a compreg.dat file to somewhere in /usr/share/epiphany which now with xulrunner-1.9.0.4-r1 contains a completely wrong library list and fails to work. If you have compreg.dat somewhere in /usr/share/epiphany (probably right there, or under components subfolder), get rid of it and it should work. If not, follow-up on the original bug I'm marking this a duplicate of (which it is)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 247040 ***