pyxpcom doesn't get loaded/doesn't work

[Mark Eichin]

Binary package hint: xulrunner-1.9

xulrunner-1.9 Version: 3.0~b4+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu hardy (development branch)
Release: 8.04

Simplest expression: opening "about:python" fails, even though "about:buildconfig" lists python, and
/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9b4/components/pyabout.py
/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9b4/components/libpyloader.so

are both in the xulrunner-1.9 package.
(An additional symptom is not seeing
Registering '@mozilla.org/module-loader/python;1' (libpyloader.so)
Registering '@mozilla.org/network/protocol/about;1?what=python' (pyabout.py)
registration messages at startup...)

[istoyanov (istoyanov)]

Ubuntu 8.04, xulrunner-1.9~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu4~8.04.0mt1, firefox-3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3

I have noticed that (similar) messages concerning /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9b5/components/pyabout.py and
/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9b5/components/libpyloader.so appear in "Tools" -> "Error Console" (see attached screenshot) quite frequently.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 or 9.04?

[Mark Eichin (eichin-gmail)]

I'm still running 8.04 (it's an LTS after all.) However, if you are
running either of those, it's trivial for *you* to check, just try to
open "about:python" in firefox, and see if you get anything...

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Daniel T Chen <email address hidden> wrote:
> Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 or 9.04?
>
> ** Changed in: xulrunner-1.9 (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> pyxpcom doesn't get loaded/doesn't work
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/209041
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[chocolateboy (chocolateboy)]

Under 8.10, I get an alert box that displays: "The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded."

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 03:54:17AM -0000, chocolateboy wrote:
> Under 8.10, I get an alert box that displays: "The URL is not valid and
> cannot be loaded."
>

Actually, I think pyxpcom is more or less abandoned upstream; they say
this should go in its own project so that mozilla doesnt need to carry
around this stuff.

Anyway, the debian fix for this isnt really great either. To make
this work we have to take care that libpyloader.so properly can
resolve its libpyxpcom.so runtime lib.

so maybe shipping that lib in /usr/lib/pyxpcom-1.9/ would make
sense. Then we could use -rpath when linking libpyloader.so

 status triaged
 importance medium

 - Alexander

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

pyxpcom needs to be it's own package...marking as a duplicate of the needs-packaging bug 480407

[steubens (steubens)]

why is it being built, and are there any reports of its absence breaking anything? or is it just the error console messages; seems to me if there's no need for it, and it hasn't worked anyways in a long time (read: before 8.04) it should just be removed instead of waiting for packaging it; or at the very least take it out of the build to stop the warnings/errors; they happen every second here and impact battery life