[jaunty] can't take web screenshot: libxul.so not found

[Mark Grandi]

i just installed jaunty and i tried to take a web screenshot, but it always pops a window saying 'failed to take web screenshot' and in the terminal it says:

gnome-web-photo: error while loading shared libraries: libxul.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

i have xulrunner and i tried installing libxul and libxul0d and all that and it still doesn't work.

ubuntu jaunty using the latest shutter from the ppa

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

Not really a shutter problem per se, it's gnome-web-photo not working properly. Will help investigate though as to why.

What does "ldd /usr/bin/gnome-web-photo" say?

[Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper)]

I've already heard that. I think the dependencies of gnome-web-photo are currently broken in jaunty.
I've just installed jaunty as a virtual machine, so i can do some testing as well.

[Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper)]

Installing the package libxul-dev solves the library issue but gnome-web-photo does not work at all in jaunty.

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

Well, it was upgraded from 0.3 to 0.5...

[Mark Grandi (markgrandi)]

this bug should be marked as effecting gnome-web-photo as well then...although i am not sure how to do that =P

[Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper)]

I've just downloaded the latest version of gnome-web-photo (0.6) and compiled it.

1) download and extract the .tar.gz (http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-web-photo/0.6/)
2) install build-dependencies => sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-web-photo
3) change to newly created directory
4) ./configure
5) make
6) sudo make install

Everything works fine now. Is there any chance to get this into jaunty quickly?

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

I think so, if we make them a fixed package and ask them to review & add it: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SponsorshipProcess

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

Ok, so Emilo Lopez made a fix that works (apparently linking to libxul is, unsurpisingly, a mess, and it should be done at runtime and not compile time - same as firefox does it) that uses a script to start gnome-web-photo. Like firefox. and it works.

So here is the attached .diff.gz and a pre-build 64bit package

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

Now to find a MOTU to get this approved...

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

Insturctions say to subscribe ubuntu-universe-sponsors and they stop here. So I guess now we wait and pray.

[Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper)]

Ah, the upstream version is in jaunty now! Great news...

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-web-photo/0.6-0ubuntu1

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

Yes. Does it fix your problems?

[Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper)]

Yeah, it does.

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

Great :). I'm closing this then.

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

Hm... well Emilio tested yesterday and it still did not work for him.

I can't test it because after todays upgrades, my vm refuses to start X, has a huge resolution with the fonts being all over the screen and generally being in a very broken state.

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

Uhm, right... I've just tried on a freshly installed system and indeed it still fails.

[Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper)]

Oh sorry, you are right.

I've tested it on the machine where I compiled the new upstream version manually (i did a sudo make uninstall, of course).
It does not work on a freshly installed system.

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

I think the script proposed by Emilio be used, because it is the same thing
that Firefox itself does. It doesn't link against libxul at compile and uses
a script instead to set its location. And it works

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Can somebody update the patch if it is still necessary for 0.6-0ubuntu1?

Unsubscribing ubuntu-universe-sponsors until then.

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

The original diff.gz already does that though... can it be used please?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-web-photo - 0.6-0ubuntu2

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gnome-web-photo (0.6-0ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low

  * debian/gnome-web-photo.install, debian/scripts:
     - Create a launcher script so that allow it to load xulrunner.
       Thanks to Emilio López <email address hidden>. (LP: #342408).
  * debian/rules:
     - Rename the gnome-web-photo binary as "gnome-web-photo.real".
  * debian/control:
     - Add xulrunner-1.9 to the Depends.
     - Remove the Homepage - it just points to an FTP site.

 -- Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals <email address hidden> Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:54:35 +0100

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

Great, thank you very much RainCT and Emilio!