Suy causes problem for firefox, thunderbird and Terminal

MillTek · 2008-10-20 19:09:23

Hi,
I did a Suy this morning. Since then whe I try to run firefox or thunderbird (from a console) I'm told
"Couldn't load XPCOM."

Also, when I try to run Terminal I get;

Terminal: error while loading shared libraries: libxcb-render-util.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Does anyone have a fix???

Thanks.

skottish · 2008-10-20 20:05:09

libxcb-render-util.so.0 is owned by xcb-util.

MillTek · 2008-10-20 20:14:01

Skottish,

Thanks again! That solved all the problems. How were you able to figure out that libxcb-render-util.so.0 is owned by xcb-util??

BKJ · 2008-10-20 21:32:10

Command:
pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libxcb-render-util.so.0

Output:
/usr/lib/libxcb-render-util.so.0 is owned by xcb-util 0.3.0-2

MillTek · 2008-10-20 21:41:43

Thanks BKJ. That will come in very handy! What can you do if the package isn't installed on your machine???

Last edited by MillTek (2008-10-20 21:43:51)

BKJ · 2008-10-20 23:39:57

I do not have the answer for that one. I know there was some talk about a "yum whatprovides" clone/type of script but I am not sure of the status of that. Sorry I could not be of more help.

Allan · 2008-10-21 00:36:12

You can download file lists for each repo off you local mirror and grep through them. There is a script around here which does that for you.

foutrelis · 2008-10-21 01:29:50

Allan wrote:

There is a script around here which does that for you.

You must be referring to pkgfile which is included in the pkgtools package.

To install (as root):

pacman -S pkgtools
pkgfile -u

Then, you can search for files as regular user:

[foutrelis@foutboxd ~]$ pkgfile libxcb-render-util.so.0
extra/xcb-util

Also, a cron job is installed in /etc/cron.daily/ which will update the package list every day.

MillTek · 2008-10-21 05:30:19

thanks guys!!

bcudda · 2008-10-27 20:12:46

Sorry if this is a complete NooB question but what did you do to fix Firefox? I had a working Firefox this morning and then after installing and setting up sudo and a few other programs it no longer works.

[rwolfe@marvin ~]$ firefox
Couldn't load XPCOM.

I assume this is a similar problem in thunderbird
[rwolfe@marvin ~]$ thunderbird
/usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.16/thunderbird-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libcairo.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Thanks in advance for any help

MillTek · 2008-10-27 20:48:58

@bcudda;

Skottish answered with this;
libxcb-render-util.so.0 is owned by xcb-util.

So I installed xcb-util. That solved it for me.

bcudda · 2008-10-27 21:02:39

Hummm thanks but I tried that and still the same response.
I even tried as sudo

[rwolfe@marvin ~]$ firefox
Couldn't load XPCOM.
[rwolfe@marvin ~]$ sudo firefox
Couldn't load XPCOM.

chipmonk010 · 2009-01-18 23:05:07

I had the same problem today with a fresh install on my laptop fixed with:

pacman -S xcb-util cairo

neonnds · 2009-07-16 23:14:59

I just reinstalled xulrunner:

sudo pacman -S xulrunner

Which consequently also installed gtk2

Targets (2): gtk2-2.16.4-1 xulrunner-1.9.1-2

[(-.-)]

djgera · 2009-07-16 23:18:24

See http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15393#comment46749

.:B:. · 2009-07-16 23:19:15

Okay, we don't do necrobumping! Old topics are, well, old...

Putting the lock on this.

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Suy causes problem for firefox, thunderbird and Terminal

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