Epiphany: Failed to instantiate LoginManager

[Villoing]

Binary package hint: epiphany-browser

I'm running Jaunty on amd64.
When starting Epiphany the main window opens but I get a blank page and cannot load any web page.

Terminal gives:
** (epiphany-browser:21467): WARNING **: Failed to instantiate LoginManager

** (epiphany-browser:21467): WARNING **: EphyBrowser initialization failed for 0x1035190

Distrib
Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04

Package version
epiphany-browser:
  Installé : 2.24.1-1ubuntu1
  Candidat : 2.24.1-1ubuntu1
 Table de version :
 *** 2.24.1-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Fabien Tassin (fta)]

I guess you have xul 1.9.1 installed.

I'm seeing that too.

$ strace -f -F epiphany-browser |& grep xulr
read(16, "[1.9.0.3]\nGRE_PATH=/usr/lib/xulr"..., 76) = 76
access("/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.3/libxpcom.so", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
read(16, "[1.9.1b2]\nGRE_PATH=/usr/lib/xulr"..., 76) = 76
access("/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1b2/libxpcom.so", R_OK) = 0
lstat("/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1b2", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lstat("/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1b2/libxpcom.so", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=18704, ...}) = 0
...

$ ls -fl /etc/gre.d/
total 36
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-11-27 17:18 .
drwxr-xr-x 147 root root 12288 2008-11-27 17:53 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 76 2008-10-13 17:59 1.9.0.3.system.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 76 2008-11-26 22:14 1.9.1b2.system.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82 2008-11-14 04:34 1.9.1b2pre.system.conf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 76 2008-11-04 01:45 1.9.0.4.system.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82 2008-11-14 04:34 1.9.1b2pre-restored.system.conf

so epiphany tries 1.9.0.3, fails, then 1.9.1b2, succeeds and fails later on because it's not compatible.

ephy should restrict itself to 1.9.0.* for now.

In embed/mozilla/mozilla-embed-single.cpp:

        static const GREVersionRange greVersion = {
          "1.9a", PR_TRUE,
          "2", PR_TRUE
        };

use 1.9.0.* instead of 2.

[Fabien Tassin (fta)]

There's also a tiny problem in the two xul packages. the previous gre.d files are not removed at the right time.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

so, Fabien suggests it, but could you please confirm that you have xulrunner-1.9.1 package installed?

[Fabien Tassin (fta)]

I'll prepare a debdiff

[Villoing (villoing)]

Indeed, I do have xulrunner-1.9.1 installed

[Fabien Tassin (fta)]

Here is the debdiff.

[Adam Porter (alphapapa)]

I added fta's PPA, which pulled in xul 1.9.1. But epiphany and epiphany-data do not depend on xul*. If they do, should the Depends of the epiphany package be adjusted to reflect this?

[Adam Porter (alphapapa)]

Nevermind. epiphany-browser is the package. :)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package epiphany-browser - 2.24.1-1ubuntu2

---------------
epiphany-browser (2.24.1-1ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/22_retrict_xul_to_1.9_only.patch:
    - only use xulrunner 1.9.0.* (not 1.9.1 or higer) as embedded
      gecko. (LP: #302859)

 -- Fabien Tassin <email address hidden> Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:58:45 +0100

[Damiano Dallatana (damidalla)]

I am seeing the same bug on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid after enabling fta's PPA, installing xulrunner 1.9.1 and restarting the pc. In fact, the fix for the bug is only in Jaunty - epiphany-browser in Intrepid is still 2.24.1-0ubuntu1.

[Damiano Venturin (damko)]

the same happens and hardy, upgrading to FF > 3.5

I didn't try to diff but it's due to xul indeed. Infact purging xul 1.9.2 fixes the issue