Re: firefox-37, where to put
On Thursday 02 April 2015 09:34:36 Petter Adsen wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 09:24:19 -0400
>
> Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> wrote:
> > 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
>
> No idea, never used it.
>
> Try these:
>
> petter@monster:~/Downloads$ md5sum firefox-37.0.tar.bz2
> 765710c0930898ab09084b4f96186bb0 firefox-37.0.tar.bz2
765710c0930898ab09084b4f96186bb0 firefox-37.0.tar.bz2
>
> petter@monster:~/Downloads$ tar xfj firefox-37.0.tar.bz2 && cd firefox
> petter@monster:~/Downloads/firefox$ file firefox
> firefox: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV),
> dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18,
> BuildID[sha1]=072ec5d969782a2391d9e60bbb126a541d606836, stripped
Different directory structure? Mine was unpacked to firefox-37/firefox,
and firefox is the directory containing firefox the supposed executable.
>
> petter@monster:~/Downloads/firefox$ md5sum firefox
b94cb23b2c05f08bca64cde6696001c9 firefox
> b94cb23b2c05f08bca64cde6696001c9 firefox
Damn the mouse wheel.
> petter@monster:~/Downloads/firefox$ ls -l firefox
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 petter petter 147776 mars 27 04:51 firefox
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gene gene 147776 Mar 26 23:51 firefox>
> petter@monster:~/Downloads/firefox$ ldd firefox
> linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007ffcfabd4000)
> libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
> (0x00007f281ae50000)
> libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2
> (0x00007f281ac4c000)
> librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1
> (0x00007f281aa43000)
> libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
> (0x00007f281a734000)
> libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6
> (0x00007f281a42c000)
> libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
> (0x00007f281a215000)
> libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
> (0x00007f2819e4b000)
> /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f281b091000)
whereas here:
gene@coyote:~/bin/firefox-37/firefox$ ldd firefox
not a dynamic executable
I also tried a sudo ldd firefox and got exactly the same response.
Now, is not ldd itself an executable?
gene@coyote:~/bin/firefox-37/firefox$ ldd /usr/bin/ldd
not a dynamic executable
WTH????
>
> And see what you get. Note that this isn't a Debian machine, so you
> won't get the same library versions, but they should be similar. If
> you have the same version of FF that I dl'ed, then the md5sums should
> be identical. Otherwise, something is corrupted.
>
> > And iceweasel has recovered. No history but prefs are intact ????
>
> Didn't you start this thread by saying you deleted your history? :)
Yes, but all it had been able to do after the re-install was start 2
copies, spinning its wheels with 1 of my phenoms cores pegged out and
north of 150C for temps. And it was just cleaned & regreased with Artic
Silver in Oct 2014. One of my annual rites.
> Petter
Thanks Petter.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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