* Me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [090601 04:35]:
> Hey all,
>
> Recently wiped my box and decided to do a "clean" reinstall now that I've
> had some experience with Debian (repartitioned, minimal install, upgrade to
> woody, etc.) and I'm still working out some kinks.
>
> I'm trying to get the latest build of Mozilla (0.9.1) to run and I'm
> running into this error:
>
>
> #/usr/local/bin/mozilla0.9.1/mozilla# ./mozilla
>
> ./run-mozilla.sh ./mozilla-bin
> MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/local/bin/mozilla0.9.1/mozilla
>
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/bin/mozilla0.9.1/mozilla:/usr/local/bin/mozilla0.9.1/mozilla/plugins
>
> LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/bin/mozilla0.9.1/mozilla:/usr/local/bin/mozilla0.9.1/mozilla/components
> SHLIB_PATH=/usr/local/bin/mozilla0.9.1/mozilla
> LIBPATH=/usr/local/bin/mozilla0.9.1/mozilla
> ADDON_PATH=/usr/local/bin/mozilla0.9.1/mozilla
> MOZ_PROGRAM=./mozilla-bin
> MOZ_TOOLKIT=
> moz_debug=0
> moz_debugger=
> ./mozilla-bin: error while loading shared libraries: cannot open shared
> object file: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory
>
Fixed the problem by doing two things:
1. I did an "apt-get dist-upgrade" and managed to grab another few files off
the debian site. My system was current when I sent the message originally
but sometime between then and now, an update was made that caused the
error message to change in a small but VERY helpful way:
"./mozilla-bin: error while loading shared libraries:
libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: cannot load
shared object file: No such file or directory"
Note the inclusion of the name of the library file that was missing.
Completely changes the way a person reads and interprets the error message.
Had that been there originally, I might not have had to bother the list
with my question.
Thanks Maintainers!
2. Based on the new error message I created a link in /usr/lib named
libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 that pointed to libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so
using the following command:
ln -s libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so libstdc++libc6.1-1.so.2
Mozilla 0.9.1 ran fine after that.
Thanks to Ethan Benson who did point out that the problem was not mozilla-bin
but rather had something to do with library files and ld.so (the library loader
) not being able to locate one and a special thanks to all the maintainers out
there who work so hard to keep Debian rocking along!
Hope this helps someone else.
robert.a.jacobs
