bug#38565: closed (Cannot run pre-compiled Firefox)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Cannot run pre-compiled Firefox Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:53:41 +0100 User-agent: mu4e 1.2.0; emacs 26.1

Hi,


Until about two months ago I could run firefox binaries downloaded via
https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest-ssl&os=linux64&lang=en-US

For about two months now I’m seeing segfaults when I try to run it.

Previously I got it working with the following setup:

cd $HOME/Downloads/firefox
export 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/run/current-system/profile/lib/:$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/:$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/nss/:$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/lib/:/gnu/store/69x60a1pn0mf5jv68al8awjfkyp1miwi-gcc-8.3.0-lib/lib/:./browser:."
./firefox-bin

This used to work with only minor limitations.


Now what I get is

./firefox-bin
Speicherzugriffsfehler (segmentation fault)


With gdb I get the following:

$ gdb ./firefox-bin
…
Reading symbols from ./firefox-bin...
(No debugging symbols found in ./firefox-bin)
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/arne/Downloads/firefox/firefox-bin

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
#1  0x00007ffff7c28d38 in ?? ()
#2  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()


Do you know a way to fix this? I need a way to test different firefox
versions, because I use Guix in homeoffice which includes web
development. If I can’t get these to run, I might have to switch away to
a different distribution. There’s so much going for Guix that I want to
keep it, but being able to run binaries compiled for Linux X86_64 is a
hard requirement for work.


Best wishes,
Arne
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> Re: bug#38565: Cannot run pre-compiled Firefox
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> Sun, 17 May 2020 15:52:44 +0200
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> mu4e 1.4.4; emacs 26.3
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> Arne Babenhauserheide <address@hidden> writes:
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> > Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> writes:
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> >> If it worked until about 2 months ago it might be related to the glibc
> >> bump. One thing you could do is create a profile from before the
> >> core-updates merge and LD_PRELOAD from there.
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> > How can I do that? Can I simply specify the commit to use?
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> >> Not an immediate solution, but it would be nice if they provided a
> >> flatpack image.
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> > Looks like this already exists:
> > https://firefox-flatpak.mojefedora.cz/
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> > Thank you!
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> > … but it segfaults:
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> FWIW, this is an upstream flatpak bug.  See the discussions here:
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> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/35591
> https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/3612
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> I’m closing this issue because you have confirmed that using Firefox
> with Flatpak works fine for you.
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> -- 
> Ricardo
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