Re: a browser that runs?

[Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih%hamartun.priv.no@localhost>]

Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 12:18:38PM +0000, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
>> [...]
>> /usr/X11R7/lib/libXext.so.7: Undefined PLT symbol "_XGetRequest" (symnum = 99)
>> (this is from firefox60) or some such.   For LibreOffice I resorted to
>> using the Linux version.
>
> How are you building them? That symbol is in /usr/X11R7/lib/libX11.so,
> and it is hard to imagine you would be able to run any X app w/o that.

I've had weird situations like this before, where it turned out that the
application and/or its dependencies managed to get hold of some, but not
all, of the required shared libraries.  I seem to recall an intermediate
library not having been linked with the right options...?  Throwing in
the towel, and just configuring /etc/ld.so.conf, has helped me out of a
few such situations.  (Hmm.  I'm actually pretty sure the last case I
had of this was with Libreoffice, on NetBSD/aarch64-current, just a few
weeks ago.  I couldn't bear the thought of experimenting with changes to
its pgksrc setup, because of the long build time.)

So maybe try creating an /etc/ld.so.conf with the lines "/usr/pkg/lib"
and "/usr/X11R7/lib" in them, and see if that helps.  If it does, that
would be an interesting data point in itself.

...and then there's the time my home workstation was exhibiting similar
symptoms, and I was all "come on, already - that library is already
loaded and in use, by lots of applications!", until I figured out that
the loaded and running instance of the shared library had a 1-bit memory
corruption (I was stupidly using non-ECC RAM at the time) in such a way
that already running clients were fine, but new ones couldn't start.

-tih
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