<div dir="ltr"><div><div>fedup is your friend. update that ancient beast!<br><br></div>sounds like those files are links to each other. Thus no actual file. run locate xpcon<br><br></div>run fedup too. ancient fedora is a security deathtrap.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Sean Kilpatrick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kilpatms@gmail.com" target="_blank">kilpatms@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Running an out-of-date Fedora.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Trying to update Firefox as more and more web sites are whining about it.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Down loaded current firefox and unpacked it into /home.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">When I try to run the executable, I get this error:</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /home/kilpatms/Downloads/firefox/libxul.so:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">libdbus-glib-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Couldn't load XPCOM.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">So, not having any idea what a GlueLoad error might be, I made a link to /usr/bin/libdbus-glib-1.so.2, which itself is a link to libddbus-glib-.so.2.1.0, which is an older and smaller file.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">I have no idea what XPCOM might be; it resides in /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.2/modules but an <ls> also shows this:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 16 12:47 XPCOM -> XPCOM</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">where the two XPCOM are oddly marked: the first is red letters on black background and the second is blinking white on a red background. I have no idea what that is trying to tell me.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">In the same directory is the file XPCOMUtils.jsm. So I tried to make a link to that file but that didn't work:</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">[root@Sarge firefox]# ln -s XPCOMUtils.jsm usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.2/modules/XPCOMUtils.jsm</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">ln: creating symbolic link `usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.2/modules/XPCOMUtils.jsm': No such file or directory</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">I am somewhat confused. That file has been sitting in that directory since the system was first booted. All 12k of it.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">I'd stop now and have a beer, but it is too early in the afternoon.</p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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