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gnufied

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Registered: 2015-04-15

Posts: 13

[SOLVED] Firefox broken after latest update

Firefox seems to be broken after latest update, on starting I get:

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.

On closer inspection I seem to have following files in /usr/lib

./libicui18n.so.55
./libicui18n.so

I have tried updating several times since then via

pacman -Syuu

with no avail.

Wondering if this was because of some AUR package I installed. I think the only thing that seems to have pulled in lots of dependencies is `libappindicator-gtk` stuff. But later on I removed it.

Last edited by gnufied (2015-04-15 13:23:53)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: [SOLVED] Firefox broken after latest update

Have you tried it with a fresh profile?

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Firefox broken after latest update

Post the output of

uname -a
pacman -Q firefox

I have tried updating several times since then via

pacman -Syuu

with no avail.

That's not the correct command, please read the man page.

Last edited by karol (2015-04-15 13:16:49)

gnufied

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Registered: 2015-04-15

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Re: [SOLVED] Firefox broken after latest update

pacman -Q firefox 

clued me in.

I had `firefox-kde-opensuse` installed which wasn't working. I removed and installed proper firefox and the problem seems to be fixed. The reason for using opensuse firefox was KDE theming etc. But seems like it broke after upgrade.

Sorry about confusion.

Alad

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Re: [SOLVED] Firefox broken after latest update

As is clear from your first post, a package which firefox depends on (is linked against) got a soname bump. Arch doesn't keep old libraries around. Rebuilding the AUR package should do the trick.

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