Firefox 47 not launching after installation

xeppepo · 2016-08-02 15:39:04

I´ve made a fresh install of Arch and after installing Firefox, I try to open it and this error comes up:

XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib/firefox/libmozgtk.so: libwayland-egl.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Couldn´t load XPCOM

Any idea?

WorMzy · 2016-08-02 15:52:32

How did you install firefox? Please post the output of 'pacman -Qi mesa' and 'pacman -Qkk mesa'.

alphaniner · 2016-08-02 15:55:34

In case you're wondering why WorMzy is asking about mesa:

# pacman -Fys libwayland-egl.so.1
...
extra/mesa 12.0.1-5
...

That is to say, mesa contains the library that firefox is telling you it can't find.

xeppepo · 2016-08-02 16:49:21

Oh, I think I forgot installing mesa! I´ll check it out when I´m home and I tell you. Thank you very much!

WorMzy · 2016-08-02 17:13:28

Mesa is an indirect dependency of firefox, if you installed firefox with pacman, then mesa should be installed (unless you skipped dependency checks for some reason). If this is the case, then your mesa package is possibly missing some files, 'pacman -Qkk mesa' would tell you if this is the case.

EDIT: Are you using nvidia drivers? It seems it's possible to have firefox installed without pulling in mesa if you're using the propriety nvidia drivers.

Last edited by WorMzy (2016-08-02 17:50:21)

xeppepo · 2016-08-02 17:53:55

I installed it with pacman: pacman -S firefox
So mesa should be installed, shouldn´t it? I´ll check it out later.
Thank you so much WorMzy!

WorMzy · 2016-08-02 18:13:05

So mesa should be installed, shouldn´t it?

I would say yes, but it seems there are scenarios where it isn't. I've opened a bug report about it.

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/50232

xeppepo · 2016-08-02 18:27:35

I´m still amazed by this linux community.
Thanks again and I tell you later if my problem was solved or not.

WorMzy · 2016-08-02 23:45:03

As Scimmia noted in the bug report, this is actually a problem with the gtk3 package, not firefox. It's /usr/lib/libgdk-3.so.0 that is linked against the libwayland-egl.so.1 library. Hopefully the problem will be fixed soon, but you can get around it by just explicitly installing mesa.

The bug report to keep an eye on is https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/50221

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