/usr/X11R6/bin/firefox prints and error and exits
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox
the x11-common package provides this link:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2007-10-11 16:31 /usr/X11R6/bin -> ../bin
If /usr/X11R6/bin is ahead of /usr/bin in the path (yes, I know, not required, but it should still work), then running firefox on the command line fails:
$ firefox
cd: 129: can't cd to ../lib/firefox
/usr/X11R6/
Exit 127
/bin/sh is apparently doing something counterintuitive with cd (maybe this is an sh bug?):
$ cd /usr/X11R6/bin
$ ls -ld ../lib/firefox ../lib/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2007-10-18 19:04 ../lib/firefox
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5257 2007-10-18 19:04 ../lib/
$ cd ../lib/firefox
cd: 3: can't cd to ../lib/firefox
The directory is clearly accessible, but cd doesn't work in this case. bash does not have this problem.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 18 19:04:53 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
NonfreeKernelMo
Uname: Linux tempest 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Hardy Heron. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http:// www.ubuntu. com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.