Thank you for your very thorough reply. I don't know what it means. I don't remember making a different profile, don't think I did that.
>>>However, Ubuntu's libnspr4.so is named libnspr4.so.0d. I'm really curious to know why actually! So you are making sort of a dummy label and pointing that to Ubuntu's libnspr4.so.0d I'm not a programmer at all any more. I'm not real good with the shell yet. >>>Anyway, the problem seems to be caused by a missing symlink in the package for Firefox 3. Binary components in Firefox extensions are linked against libnspr4.so. However, Ubuntu's libnspr4.so is named libnspr4.so.0d. I'm really curious to know why actually! Anyway, creating a symlink solves the problem, and deleting compreg.dat and xpti.dat from the profile directory clears Firefox's component cache, causing it to check any libraries that previously failed to load and (usually) fixing the problem. Should this be a script that remains as part of the program, every time it is run, it serves this purpose, or is it fixed if you run this once. I've run it several times, and no fix. Is it possible to make this into a patch, so that someone like me, could just install it, and not have to hum and haw about what to do next, or what the meaning of the terms are? I was going to un-install the Ebay tools and try to install them again, but from what you are saying, this might make no difference. >>>To those people for whom this does not fix the problem: maybe you're not using the "default" profile? What is a profile? What is the default Profile? What is the profile that can be created manually? What does this mean? What is a Profile Directory? Alfred! PS I'm using 7.10 Ebay companion, and it works good in 7.10, Ubuntu 7.10 32 bit. Thank you for making it and the 8.04 version available. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Gideon Dann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Bug 243869 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Bug 243869] Re: Ebay companion erroneously reports 64bit version of Firefox Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:48:08 -0000 Hi everyone, I'm the lead developer for the eBay Companion. Sorry it's taken me a while to find my way to this bug on Launchpad. I added the instructions to the error popup just before the last release in the hope of curbing the number of bug reports we were getting :) Anyway, the problem seems to be caused by a missing symlink in the package for Firefox 3. Binary components in Firefox extensions are linked against libnspr4.so. However, Ubuntu's libnspr4.so is named libnspr4.so.0d. I'm really curious to know why actually! Anyway, creating a symlink solves the problem, and deleting compreg.dat and xpti.dat from the profile directory clears Firefox's component cache, causing it to check any libraries that previously failed to load and (usually) fixing the problem. To those people for whom this does not fix the problem: maybe you're not using the "default" profile? If you're using a Firefox profile that you created manually, try deleting the compreg.dat and xpti.dat files from that profile directory. Also, make sure that /usr/lib/libnspr4.so exists and that it points to libnspr4.so.0d. -- Ebay companion erroneously reports 64bit version of Firefox https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/243869 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
