Fedcora 2 X86_64 mozilla problem

[Cyrus Adkisson]

Thanks for all the responses. I think I'm starting to understand this 
dual library stuff a little better now. I was able to install the latest 
xorg-x11-libs package to get the 32-bit version of libXinerama.so.1 and, 
thus, I was able to successfully install the firefox RPM. However, when 
I try to run firefox, it does nothing for me except produce this error:

$ /usr/bin/firefox
shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access 
parent directories: No such file or directory

All I could tell from google was that getcwd is a lower-level *nix 
command for programming. Not an installable package or anything. That's 
probably an asinine way of describing it, but that's how I understand 
it. The /usr/bin/firefox script is set up for sh instead of bash... 
would that make a difference? Do I have the 64-bit sh installed which is 
causing the 32-bit firefox to die? I'm really confused.

Cyrus

Phil Dybvig wrote:

>>I'm on an FC2 AMD x86_64 Dual Opteron machine and can't install the 
>>firefox i386 version you suggested. Here is my problem, which is pretty 
>>self-explanatory. I've had this issue with many, many packages where RPM 
>>says it needs something that very obviously exists in the right place. I 
>>don't understand it.
>>
>>[root at teddy cyrus]# rpm -Uvh 
>>/home/cyrus/Desktop/packages/firefox-0.8-0.fdr.11.2.i386.rpm
>>warning: /home/cyrus/Desktop/packages/firefox-0.8-0.fdr.11.2.i386.rpm: 
>>V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID ecc63e4d
>>error: Failed dependencies:
>>       libXinerama.so.1 is needed by firefox-0.8-0.fdr.11.2
>>[root at teddy cyrus]# locate libXinerama.so.1
>>/usr/X11R6/lib64/libXinerama.so.1
>>/usr/X11R6/lib64/libXinerama.so.1.0
>>[root at teddy cyrus]# cat /etc/ld.so.conf
>>/usr/X11R6/lib
>>/usr/X11R6/lib64
>>/usr/lib64/sane
>>/usr/lib64/qt-3.1/lib
>>/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/lib
>>/usr/local/lib/php
>>/usr/local/lib
>>/usr/local/lib64
>>/usr/lib64/mysql
>>/usr/lib64
>>
>>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>Cyrus
>>
>>    
>>
>The problem is that you have the 64-bit Xinerama shared library but the 32-bit 
>firefox needs the 32-bit Xinerama shared library (and the 32-bit version of 
>other things, too).  The biarch model says for example that 64-bit shared 
>libraries for X-Windows are in /usr/X11R6/lib64 while the 32-bit libraries
>ares in /usr/X11R6/lib.  The linker does not like to load 64-bit libraries into 
>32 bit programs because addresses are not compatible etc.
>
>The solution is to load the 32-bit version of the Xinerama library.  On my
>system, I run
>
>  $ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.so.1
>  xorg-x11-libs-6.7.0-5
>
>This is an upgrade of xorg-x11-libs-6.7.0-2.i386.rpm on the original disk
>I installed from.  That disk also has the x86_64 version you have installed.
>So, if your yum configuration points at an appropriate mirror, you should be
>able to run
>
>  $ yum install xorg-x11-libs-6.7.0-5.i386
>  
>to get the library.  (I did install everything at the outset, so I already
>had it.
>
>  The biarch business usually works great (the heaving lifting is done by
>by the processor) but there are some glitches.  For example, the 32-bit
>and 64-bit versions of the gdk-pixbuf packages share a nonidentical config
>file in /etc/gtk-2.0.  I have tried things like using rpm -i --force to
>install the 32-bit version and then the 64-bit version and then guessing how
>to edit the common files to pull it all together.  I have to say I am not
>very confident about the outcome, since I don't have a clear understanding
>of how the packages use the config files.  However, there is no conflict for 
>libXinerama.
>
>  For more information, I recommend Justin Forbes' x86_64 on FC2 FAQ:
>  
>    http://www.linuxtx.org/amd64faq.html
>    
>and his posts here.
>
>-- Phil
>
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