libmozjs.so No such file or directory

[Thomas]

Binary package hint: gnome-shell

when I start gnome-shell from terminal I can see:

(mutter:22487): mutter-WARNING **: Could not load library [/usr/lib/mutter/plugins/libgnome-shell.so (libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)]

Is there some missing dependency?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome-shell 2.31.5-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-17.23-generic 2.6.35.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-17-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 24 21:06:11 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100803.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-shell

[Virgil Brummond (uraharakisuke153)]

Occurs for me in 2.31.5-2ubuntu1. This entry from the change-log means they are aware of the issue?

gnome-shell (2.31.5-2ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian experimental. Remaining changes:
    - debian/patches/04_workaround_libmozjs_build.patch:
      + workaround build issues due to libmozjs not being installed as a lib
  * Drop debian/patches/01_favorite_apps.diff: Keep firefox as default browser

 -- Laurent Bigonville <email address hidden> Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:24:15 +0200

[Jeff Craig (foxxtrot)]

On my system, I did have a /usr/lib/libmozjs.so.2d file, owned by the libmozjs2d package. Symlinking /usr/lib/libmozjs.so to this file seems to have fixed the issue.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

As multiple people are confirming, I'm marking this report confirmed. This will most likely be fixed by bug 576991.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 629828, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.