Thunderbird compiled but doesn't start

Philosopher · 08-19-2007, 09:01 AM

Hi all,

I just built the latest Thunderbird from source, but when I execute 'thunderbird' it get this error-message

Code:

error while loading shared libraries: libmozjs.so: 
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I did a check with ldd and got the following:

Code:

...
libmozjs.so => not found
libxpcom.so => not found
libxpcom_core.so => not found
...

But those libraries are installed in /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.6/ and Firefox/ Epiphany also run with no problem. So how do I get thunderbird linked against them?

Thanks in advance!

jailbait · 08-19-2007, 03:22 PM

"those libraries are installed in /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.6/ and Firefox/ Epiphany also run with no problem. So how do I get thunderbird linked against them?"

The problem may be that the libraries exist but are not on the LD_LIBRARY_PATH or the standard link library list. Try running the ldconfig command and see if that puts them on the standard link library list.

See:
man ldconfig

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Steve Stites

Philosopher · 08-19-2007, 05:00 PM

Thanks for your answer. After defining the LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Code:

# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.6/

ldd found the libraries, but invoking thunderbird gave me now

Code:

error while loading shared libraries: libmozjs.so: 
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So I created symbolic links in the thunderbird directory to the mentioned libraries and also to run-mozilla.sh, because thunderbird was also complaining about missing mozilla-runtime. Now I finally don't get any error messages anymore but nevertheless still no thunderbird. Any ideas?

traene · 09-08-2007, 03:30 AM

Can you use a package of thunderbird for your distro? I am using Archlinux and ldd thunderbird gives:

Code:

[jim@speedy ~]$ ldd /opt/mozilla/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin 
	libmozjs.so => not found
	libxpcom.so => not found
	libxpcom_core.so => not found
	libplds4.so => /usr/lib/libplds4.so (0x00002ab8ae394000)
	libplc4.so => /usr/lib/libplc4.so (0x00002ab8ae582000)
	libnspr4.so => /usr/lib/libnspr4.so (0x00002ab8ae687000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00002ab8ae7c0000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00002ab8ae9dc000)
	libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x00002ab8aebe0000)
	libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x00002ab8af166000)
	libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0x00002ab8af3fc000)
	libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 (0x00002ab8af51c000)
	libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0x00002ab8af734000)
	libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 (0x00002ab8af858000)
	libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0x00002ab8afa62000)
	libcairo.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2 (0x00002ab8afca5000)
	libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x00002ab8afe22000)
	libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x00002ab8b0064000)
	libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00002ab8b0267000)
	libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00002ab8b0515000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00002ab8b071d000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00002ab8b099c000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00002ab8b0ca5000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00002ab8b0eb3000)
	/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002ab8ae366000)
	libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3 (0x00002ab8b11f3000)
	libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x00002ab8b12f9000)
	libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00002ab8b142d000)
	libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x00002ab8b153e000)
	libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0x00002ab8b1748000)
	libXi.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x00002ab8b184a000)
	libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0x00002ab8b1953000)
	libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0x00002ab8b1a5b000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0x00002ab8b1c65000)
	libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0x00002ab8b1d7a000)
	libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00002ab8b1fac000)
	libpcre.so.0 => /lib/libpcre.so.0 (0x00002ab8b2138000)
	libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x00002ab8b225e000)
	libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00002ab8b2360000)
	libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0x00002ab8b2466000)

The three with (no found) are actually in /opt/mozilla/lib/thunderbird. I start thunderbird with a shell script in
/opt/mozilla/bin/thunderbird.

Hope this helps a bit.