Re: Can't run iceweasel [Couldn't load XPCOM]

[Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>]

On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 20:09 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> writes:
> 
> > I'd purge that, and reinstall it, someone has tampered with it;
> > otherwise why would /usr/lib/xulrunner-10.0/libxul.so be missing.
> 
> It was not missing but was being reported as missing.  Anyway I did
> remove and purge:
> 
> xulrunner-10.0
> iceweasel
> 
> >> | xulrunner-dev                10.0.5esr-1   
> > Why is xulrunner-dev installed? I'd purge that.
> 
> And xulrunner-dev
> 
> Then reinstalled iceweasel which pulled in xulrunner-10.0.
> 
> And now:
> 
>   iceweasel
>   XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib/xulrunner-10.0/libxpcom.so:
>   libxul.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>   Couldn't load XPCOM.
> 
> And still:
> 
> ls -l /usr/lib/xulrunner-10.0/libx*
> root root    15048 Jun 29 09:52 /usr/lib/xulrunner-10.0/libxpcom.so
> root root 20280312 Jun 29 09:52 /usr/lib/xulrunner-10.0/libxul.so
> 
> So not an ounce of progress... I guess.

FWIW, did you run ldconfig manually after reinstalling the packages?