x-www-browser doesn't work with firefox 3.0 in intrepid

[Jisakiel]

Binary package hint: firefox

x-www-browser doesn't work properly with mozilla firefox (as of 3.0.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 , in an intrepid system fully dist-upgraded ). The symlink is pointing correctly to /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser, which itself is pointing to /usr/bin/firefox . But when run, x-www-browser crashes with:

$ LC_ALL="en_EN" x-www-browser
/usr/bin/x-www-browser: line 117: /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.3/x-www-browser: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/x-www-browser: line 117: exec: /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.3/x-www-browser: cannot execute: No such file or directory

IF we examine that line, we get:

 exec $LIBDIR/$APPNAME "$@"

which itself is defined at the beginning of the file (line 11) as:

APPNAME=`basename $0`

which, of course, when called from the symlink gets its basename as x-www-browser, so it cannot find the executable and crashes.

Solution would be to add a symlink in the deb package from /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.3/x-www-browser to /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.3/firefox , or to change the /usr/bin/firefox script .

[Pablo Castellano (pablocastellano)]

Confirmed. This should be triaged but I don't have such permissions.

[Jisakiel (jisakiel)]

Works for me as of 3.0.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 .

[Pablo Castellano (pablocastellano)]

Hello Jisakiel.
What do you mean? What is working x-www-browser or the workaround?

[Jisakiel (jisakiel)]

/usr/bin/x-www-browser (which points to /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser, pointing to /usr/bin/firefox-3.0, itself pointing to ../lib/firefox-3.0.3/firefox.sh ). I discovered it by luck.

I'd consider this fixed, though I don't know in which revision (I regularly dist-upgrade now that I'm in intrepid).

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been fixed in the latest development version of Ubuntu - the Jaunty Jackalope. It has also been fixed in Intrepid 8.10 and Hardy 8.04. It won't be fixed in previous versions of Ubuntu because the package doesn't fit the requirements for backporting. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports for more information.