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Painguy

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Registered: 2014-08-20

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Firefox XPCOMGlueLoad error

My firefox install recently started having issues with youtube and flash so i decided to update it, but after reinstalling it to version 34.0.5-1 it gives the following error

$ firefox
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so:
libicui18n.so.54: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Couldn't load XPCOM.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Firefox XPCOMGlueLoad error

Do you have libicui18n.so.54 present? icu package from [extra] (version 54) provides it. Are you using some other icu package?

Edit: Have you tried using html5 in youtube? What other websites you have problems with and what exactly is wrong? Have you tried running firefox with a new profile with all add-ons disabled?

Last edited by karol (2015-02-16 10:33:14)

Painguy

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Registered: 2014-08-20

Posts: 15

Re: Firefox XPCOMGlueLoad error

I did try using html5 on youtube and it works fine, but a few features like 3D go missing. Also other sites like facebook have annoying errors due to this flash issue. It started happening randomly about 3 days ago. I do not have libicui18n.so.54 I suppose an update failed somewhere somehow? What package would I need to install to get it?

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Firefox XPCOMGlueLoad error

You need icu. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pkgfile#Usage
What's the output of

pacman -Qi icu
pacman -Qk | grep icu
uname -a

Last edited by karol (2015-02-17 18:59:56)

Painguy

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Registered: 2014-08-20

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Re: Firefox XPCOMGlueLoad error

Here is the output. Thanks for the help thus far.

$ pacman -Qi icu
Name           : icu
Version        : 53.1-1
Description    : International Components for Unicode library
Architecture   : x86_64
URL            : http://www.icu-project.org/
Licenses       : custom:"icu"
Groups         : None
Provides       : None
Depends On     : gcc-libs>=4.7.1-5  sh
Optional Deps  : None
Required By    : boost-libs  brltty  firefox  harfbuzz-icu  lib32-icu  libcdr  libmspub  libreoffice-fresh  libtracker-sparql  libvisio  qt5-base  raptor
Optional For   : qt4
Conflicts With : None
Replaces       : None
Installed Size : 30054.00 KiB
Packager       : Andreas Radke <andyrtr@archlinux.org>
Build Date     : Fri 04 Apr 2014 10:24:31 AM PDT
Install Date   : Thu 28 Aug 2014 11:23:43 AM PDT
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script : No
Validated By   : Signature

$ pacman -Qk | grep icu
warning: gdm: /var/lib/gdm/.local/ (Permission denied)
warning: gdm: /var/lib/gdm/.local/share/ (Permission denied)
warning: gdm: /var/lib/gdm/.local/share/applications/ (Permission denied)
warning: gnome-control-center: /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/gnome-control-center.rules (Permission denied)
warning: grub: /etc/grub.d/10_linux (No such file or directory)
warning: grub: /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober (No such file or directory)
harfbuzz-icu: 14 total files, 0 missing files
icu: 268 total files, 0 missing files
lib32-icu: 44 total files, 0 missing files
warning: polkit: /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/50-default.rules (Permission denied)
$ uname -a
Linux arch 3.16.1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Aug 14 07:40:19 CEST 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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Re: Firefox XPCOMGlueLoad error

Don't do partial upgrades, they're not supported.

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karol

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Re: Firefox XPCOMGlueLoad error

Both your kernel and icu are out of date. Please update your system and see if you get any more problems with the current firefox. If you do, you can dowgrade firefox.