gjs does not work. Error loading libmozjs.so.

[mat]

Binary package hint: gjs

I wanted to try out gjs. But when calling it I just get an error :
"gjs: error while loading shared libraries: libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

This does not seem to appear in dependencies.

I installed libmozjs.so, but removed it when gjs still did not work.

Thanks for any help.

Ask for any further information ^^

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: f367638674c5874a029847d564f7cc04
CheckboxSystem: fb26fe92060d6ed3dbf15afb2eb325a4
Date: Fri Dec 4 17:18:45 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gjs 0.4-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: gjs
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686

[Niall Creech (sevenmachines-deactivatedaccount)]

not exactly sure what the solution is but
$LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1.5/ gjs
will get it running (actual library path may be different depending on xulrunner version)

[mat (sabourin-mathieu)]

Thanks for your answer.
But I still get the same error.
I checked and /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1.5/ does contain libmozjs.so.

Actually behaviour is different with the line you gave. While using it as a "normal" user i get :
"bash: =/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1.5/: No such file or directory"
When using it as super user I get same message as before.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gjs - 0.4-3ubuntu3

---------------
gjs (0.4-3ubuntu3) lucid; urgency=low

  * Rebuild with the current xulrunner version (lp: #492369)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:04:18 +0100

[Jeff Sparkes (jsparkes)]

This bug is also found in the Lucid Alpha 2 release.

[Jeff Sparkes (jsparkes)]

Seems like the fix didn't work for my Lucid Alpha 2 install. libmozjs.so is referenced twice, but only
found once

jsparkes@jsparkes-ubuntu:~$ ldd /usr/bin/gjs
 linux-gate.so.1 => (0x00e53000)
 libgjs.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgjs.so.0 (0x00e26000)
 libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x00d49000)
 librt.so.1 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0x005fa000)
 libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x00bc3000)
 libglib-2.0.so.0 => /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00110000)
 libmozjs.so => not found
 libplds4.so => /usr/lib/libplds4.so (0x00c84000)
 libplc4.so => /usr/lib/libplc4.so (0x00b31000)
 libnspr4.so => /usr/lib/libnspr4.so (0x0054f000)
 libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0x00986000)
 libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0x00672000)
 libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0x001c7000)
 libmozjs.so => /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1.7/libmozjs.so (0x0031b000)
 libpcre.so.3 => /lib/libpcre.so.3 (0x005a8000)
 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00f55000)
 libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0x00a3a000)
 libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x003e2000)
 libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00fdc000)
jsparkes@jsparkes-ubuntu:~$ gjs
gjs: error while loading shared libraries: libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
jsparkes@jsparkes-ubuntu:~$

[Niall Creech (sevenmachines-deactivatedaccount)]

i'm guessing this bug is relevant here
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xulrunner-1.9.1/+bug/286906

[Niall Creech (sevenmachines-deactivatedaccount)]

dh_shlibdeps gives a whole lot of these

dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: couldn't find library libmozjs.so needed by debian/gjs/usr/bin/gjs-console (ELF format: 'elf64-x86-64'; RPATH: '').
Note: libraries are not searched in other binary packages that do not have any shlibs or symbols file.
To help dpkg-shlibdeps find private libraries, you might need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

[Niall Creech (sevenmachines-deactivatedaccount)]

manually adding the current xulrunner LD_LIBRARY_PATH still works here (current version is 1.9.1.7), i'm not sure the best way to fix the gjs package properly though

$ gjs
gjs: error while loading shared libraries: libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1.7/ gjs
gjs>

[Niall Creech (sevenmachines-deactivatedaccount)]

looks like debian solves the libmozjs.so dilemma by providing updated versions of libmozjs for xulrunner 1.9.*, installing libmozjs.so.* into /usr/lib. i don't know what ubuntu's plans for a similar package are

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

This is fixed in gjs 0.4-4ubuntu1 with the addition of an RPATH to libgjs-gi.so and removing the unnecessary explicit link of libmozjs to gjs-console.

I've also added a tightly versioned dependency of libgjs0 on xulrunner, which should prevent gjs silently breaking on firefox upgrades.

[Alberto Ruiz (alberto.ruiz)]

I've found this bug is also present in Karmic.

[Jason McMullan (jason-mcmullan)]

This bug affects me in Lucid as of April 5, 2010

NOTE: As a workaround, I can set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1,
and all works well.