Re: firefox-37, where to put
On Thursday 02 April 2015 08:23:32 Petter Adsen wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 08:08:49 -0400
>
> Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 02 April 2015 05:33:40 Darac Marjal wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 05:16:37AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > wordwrap off so as not to rip up long lines.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Fun & games but not S&G. Network-Manager had the last word when
> > > > I excised that piece of insanity, the SOB zeroed out the eth0
> > > > settings in /etc/network/interfaces. Bad dog, no biscuit from
> > > > me.
> > > >
> > > > All discovered and I think fixed as I appear to have restored
> > > > networking now.
> > > >
> > > > All triggered by discovering that the reason I was into swap all
> > > > the time was that for the last 12 days I had been running a 32
> > > > bit rtai kernel which is NOT PAE, seems I need to edit the
> > > > default number in /boot/grub/grub.cnf, it is not pointing at a
> > > > 64 bit 3.2.0-4amd64 vmlinuz. That discovery in turn triggered
> > > > by firefox spitting out a tummy ache on start attempts.
> > > >
> > > > I renamed the firefox script in /usr/bin/ which was actually
> > > > running iceweasel to /usr/bin/firefux, then made a symlink from
> > > >
> > > > /home/gene/bin/firefox-37/firefox/firefox from /usr/bin/firefox.
> > > >
> > > > So, rebooted to a true 64 bit kernel, but 64 bit firefox refuses
> > > > to run: gene@coyote:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/firefox
> > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 Apr 2 04:03 /usr/bin/firefox ->
> > > > /home/gene/bin/firefox-37/firefox/firefox Which is correct. But
> > > > First try it like the renamed script does it:
> > > > gene@coyote:~$ firefox "$@"
> > > > bash: /usr/bin/firefox: No such file or directory
> > > > Then try w/o the argument.
> > > > gene@coyote:~$ firefox
> > > > bash: /usr/bin/firefox: No such file or directory
> > > >
> > > > Its 5am, and I don't seem to have even one eye open
> > > > simultaineously...
> > > >
> > > > The firefox binary itself
> > > > gene@coyote:~$ ls -l bin/firefox-37/firefox/firefox
> > > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 gene gene 147776 Mar 26 23:51
> > > > bin/firefox-37/firefox/firefox
> > >
> > > Often, in this situation, it's not the file you're thinking of
> > > which doesn't exist. When executing a binary file, the kernel will
> > > return the same error (ENOENT) for all files necessary to start
> > > the binary. In other words, you can't immediately tell if it's the
> > > binary which doesn't exist, or the libraries it's linked to.
> > >
> > > So, as you know the binary exists, run "ldd /usr/bin/firefox" to
> > > see which libraries it's linked against and see if they all exist.
> >
> > gene@coyote:~/bin/firefox-37/firefox$ sudo ldd /usr/bin/firefox
> > [sudo] password for gene:
> > not a dynamic executable
>
> Run it on the binary itself, not the symlink.
>
> Petter
And it still claims "not an executable".
Does using squeeze to unpack a tarball screw things up this bad
And iceweasel has recovered. No history but prefs are intact ????
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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