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Cannot run pre-compiled Firefox

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab <at> web.de>
Subject: bug#38565: closed (Re: bug#38565: Cannot run pre-compiled Firefox)
Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 13:53:06 +0000

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Your bug report

#38565: Cannot run pre-compiled Firefox

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 38565 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab <at> web.de>
Cc: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>, 38565-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38565: Cannot run pre-compiled Firefox
Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 15:52:44 +0200

Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab <at> web.de> writes:

> Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> How can I do that? Can I simply specify the commit to use?
>
>> Not an immediate solution, but it would be nice if they provided a
>> flatpack image.
>
> Looks like this already exists:
> https://firefox-flatpak.mojefedora.cz/
>
> Thank you!
>
> … but it segfaults:

FWIW, this is an upstream flatpak bug.  See the discussions here:

https://issues.guix.gnu.org/35591
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/3612

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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From: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab <at> web.de>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Cannot run pre-compiled Firefox
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:53:41 +0100

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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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