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From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox - Couldn't Load XPCOM
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:01:21
Message-Id: 871vnuco31.fsf@newsguy.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Firefox - Couldn't Load XPCOM by Harry Putnam
1 Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> writes:
2
3 > This must be a known issue, but I don't see recent messages that
4 > appear to be about this problem with firefox.
5 >
6 > Over the last few updates I'm unable to run firefox at all.
7 >
8 > If called from cmdline I see:
9 > firefox
10 > Couldn't load XPCOM.
11 >
12 > I read somewhere it might have something to do with Xulrunner. But I
13 > see my latest update also updated xulrunner.
14 >
15 > Now running these:
16 > Sat Aug 1 11:45:01 2009 >>> net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.1.1-r1
17 > Sat Aug 1 11:48:15 2009 >>> www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.5.1-r1
18 >
19 > Anyone have a tip about this?
20
21 Nevermind... revdep-rebuild -v -- --ask
22 found package dev-libs/nss to be inconsistent and rebuilt it.
23
24 That seems to have cured the problem.