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


Thing is that it works, albiet very buggy, when somthing tries to access it via firefox. However it is buggy, like I said, and it wont start when I try to access it my self. e.g. through bash or terminal etc.

install seamonkey and ran ldconfig

Those libraries are part of firefox. I have no idea, why gxine needs them, but this bug did happen occasionally. Can be solved by symlinking firefox libraries (there will be four of them) into /usr/local/lib, sometimes can be cured by resetting gxine's skin.

Do you know what four need to be symlinked? I symlinked libmozjs.so in /usr/local/lib but I still get the same prob.

Maybe this thread is relevant to your problem ?

No I still get the same problems. It was insightful however. Thank you!

I don't really remember, because they had really ugly names which looked meaningless (except libmozjs, which seems to mean "mozilla javascript"), but I think they were libmozjs.so, libplds4.so, libplc4.so and libnspr4.so. I'm not completely sure about it, though. Try launching gxine from terminal emulator (Konsole, xterm, whatever) after you symlinked first library, it will print which one it can't find. Or do "ldd /usr/bin/gxine", and it will also help you to find missing libraries.

I found out that I symlinked libraries in /usr/lib, not /usr/local/lib. Try it, it might help.

And if you have custom-built packages then it won't work.
/var/log/packages contains lists of files for all packages, so searching should be done by checking contents of /var/log/packages, not manifest.bz2.

/var/log/packages list files in packages that you have installed. When you get messages about missing library files, they're probably[1] in packages that you haven't installed. Then, MANIFEST is the place to find them.

1. Might not apply in this case though .

Yeah that did the trick. Thanks every one!!

Edit: It is still very buggy though. I am beginning to think that Gxine is just buggy

To be more clear, when ever I full screen or exit full screen it freezes. If I use the keyboard to do it, it does not freeze however.