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stolichniaskitnik

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[SOLVED]: Waterfox won't start after update

So a few days ago I ran:

pacman -Syyu

After that I click on my bottom dock to start my browser(waterfox) and I get:

Input/Output Error

I try to run waterfox in my terminal and I get, you guessed it:

No such file or directory

About the whisker menu when I click on the icon itself nothing happens. Also I have in my /home/[username]/ directory a .waterfox directory with another directory inside of it called: 'mpduf53e.default' and a file called: 'profiles.ini'.
The update after which waterfox doesn't work is this one (form /var/log/paman.log): https://ptpb.pw/WuVS
At this point I am using palemoon but am quite tired of switching browsers and also I have gotten pretty used to waterfox because of the ammount of time I have used it. So is there something wrong with waterfox itself or I just made a careless update and all is my fault (won't be surprised) and I should just rebuild the package and carry on with my life?
Cheers!

EDIT: typo

Last edited by stolichniaskitnik (2018-02-10 23:01:21)

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED]: Waterfox won't start after update

Don't paste truncated logs, they are essentially useless: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

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stolichniaskitnik

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Re: [SOLVED]: Waterfox won't start after update

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by truncated.. This is the whole update I have done at the date afterwhich waterfox stopped running. Can you please be a bit more specific.
Cheers!

EDIT: The link you posted doesn't seem to have anything related to your post..

Last edited by stolichniaskitnik (2018-02-10 22:01:10)

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED]: Waterfox won't start after update

I try to run waterfox in my terminal and I get, you guessed it:

No such file or directory

What command did you type.  How is waterfox installed?  What is the executable called and where was it located?

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED]: Waterfox won't start after update

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by truncated.. This is the whole update I have done at the date afterwhich waterfox stopped running. Can you please be a bit more specific.
Cheers!

EDIT: The link you posted doesn't seem to have anything related to your post..

The link makes it clear to post full logs, not just the bits you think are relevant.

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stolichniaskitnik

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Re: [SOLVED]: Waterfox won't start after update

I simply ran:

waterfox

I installed it months ago and if I remember correctly it was by cloning the aur link with git and then using makepkg -s. All was good until the update I am talking about (which I posted and don't know what is wrong with it)
Now when I type:

whereis waterfox

It spits out:

waterfox: /usr/bin/waterfox

And when I run the above path I get:

XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /opt/waterfox/libxul.so:
libvpx.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Couldn't load XPCOM.

Cheers!

stolichniaskitnik

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Re: [SOLVED]: Waterfox won't start after update

jasonwryan, I am sorry but this still confuses me if I post the whole log file which begins with pacstrap /mnt base base-devel wouldn't you flame about posting this outrageously large file? What I am tryiing to say is that i have posted the whole update I ran on the date before which waterfox was wrking properly..
Cheers!

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED]: Waterfox won't start after update

You can use a paste service for large files. Read the Code: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … s_and_code

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loqs

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Re: [SOLVED]: Waterfox won't start after update

libvpx.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[2018-02-08 22:14] [ALPM] upgraded libvpx (1.6.1-1 -> 1.7.0-1)

/usr/lib/libvpx.so.5 is owned by libvpx 1.7.0-1

AUR package updates are your responsibility rebuild waterfox.

stolichniaskitnik

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Re: [SOLVED]: Waterfox won't start after update

Thank you, loqs. This is what I wanted to hear. Marking the thread as solved.
jasonwryan, Thank you as well I will go through it.
And thank you both for the quick responses!
Cheers!