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Waterfox 2020.1 classic doesn't work in Ubuntu 16.04 #1356

Closed jcea closed 3 years ago

jcea commented 4 years ago

Waterfox classic 2019.12 worked fine.

Ubuntu 16.04 is supported until 2021/04. More than a year to go.

Trying to launch just released Waterfox classic 2020.1 I get this error:

jcea@jcea:~$ waterfox/waterfox
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /home/jcea/waterfox/libnspr4.so:
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.30' not found (required by /home/jcea/waterfox/libnspr4.so)
Couldn't load XPCOM.

Since this is a security release, I think solving this should be a priority.

Thanks a lot for your time and effort.

hawkeye116477 commented 4 years ago

You can also install it from unofficial apt repository => https://software.opensuse.org//download.html?project=home%3Ahawkeye116477%3Awaterfox&package=waterfox-classic-kpe or as AppImage => https://appimage.github.io/Waterfox_Classic/.

laniakea64 commented 4 years ago

Duplicate of https://github.com/MrAlex94/Waterfox/issues/1128

jcea commented 4 years ago

Sorry, @hawkeye116477, but I don't know who are you and I rather prefer not to use random stuff downloaded from unknow places :-) Please, do not consider this an insult, only a "caveat emptor". Do you mind to share your credentials?

jcea commented 4 years ago

Duplicate of #1128

That issue refers to current. This is about classic :-).

hawkeye116477 commented 4 years ago

Credentials? I think that source files which I used to make packages should clarify the matter a bit:

https://github.com/hawkeye116477/waterfox-deb-rpm-arch-AppImage
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:hawkeye116477:waterfox/waterfox-classic-kpe
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:hawkeye116477:waterfox/waterfox-classic-appimage

Anyway I also made few commits to Waterfox's repo.

MrAlex94 commented 4 years ago

I can vouch for @hawkeye116477. Of course no guarantees as I am not omniscient, but they have been contributing and helping Waterfox for a while :-)

lproven commented 4 years ago

Same issue on openSUSE Leap 15.1, fully updated -- W'fox 2020.01 does not run with the same

Couldn't load XPCOM.

... error as in the root post (with slightly different paths because of a different distro).

lproven commented 4 years ago

(AppImage works fine so have temporarily switched to that, but it breaks system integration, e.g. pinning the app to the taskbar.)

hawkeye116477 commented 4 years ago

@lproven You can also extract AppImage (https://docs.appimage.org/user-guide/run-appimages.html?highlight=extract#extract-the-contents-of-an-appimage) or try rpm package from repository or use appimaged or AppImage Launcher to have system integration.

morninglite commented 4 years ago

It's not only Ubuntu 16.04, it's also Ubuntu 18.04 (the latest LTS release), and all versions of Debian, Linux Mint, openSUSE and others.

Basically only bleeding edge distros like Arch, Fedora and non-LTS Ubuntu releases can use this Waterfox build. As far as I know, the vast majority of Linux desktops cannot use it.

jcea commented 4 years ago

I can vouch for @hawkeye116477. Of course no guarantees as I am not omniscient, but they have been contributing and helping Waterfox for a while :-)

What I don't understand is why @hawkeye116477 can provide a compatible release just compiling and @MrAlex94 has not done the same to release an official 2020.1 version. It is obvious that current official 2020.1 classic release is not compatible with most supported Linux distributions.

Maybe @MrAlex94 is traveling, I don't know.

hawkeye116477 commented 4 years ago

@jcea He probably used some other PC with newer distro than he used for previous version. In case of AppImage package, it's compiled on CentOS 7 (on OBS VM), so it's even more compatible than official Classic 2019.12.

jcea commented 4 years ago

@jcea He probably used some other PC with newer distro than he used for previous version. In case of AppImage package, it's compiled on CentOS 7 (on OBS VM), so it's even more compatible than official Classic 2019.12.

Compilation should be done in a virtual machine with the oldest supported linux distribution. My advice :-).

ilu33 commented 4 years ago

I can confirm that Waterfox classic 2020.01 does not work on debian 9 and debian 10. Waterfox classic 2019.12 worked fine.


/opt/waterfox-classic-test/waterfox
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /opt/waterfox-classic-test/libnspr4.so:
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.30' not found (required by /opt/waterfox-classic-test/libnspr4.so)
Couldn't load XPCOM.

ldd --version
ldd (Debian GLIBC 2.28-10) 2.28
Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <snip>
zpangwin commented 4 years ago

I can confirm that Waterfox classic 2020.01 does not work on debian 9 and debian 10. Waterfox classic 2019.12 worked fine.

Ditto for Linux Mint 19.3 (Ubuntu 18.04 based) with waterfox-classic-2020.01.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2

   $ /opt/waterfox-classic/waterfox
   XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /opt/waterfox-classic/libnspr4.so:
   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.30' not found (required by /opt/waterfox-classic/libnspr4.so)
   Couldn't load XPCOM.

I can also confirm that the previous waterfox-classic-2019.12.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 did not have this issue.

Can't speak for anyone else, but I am not very fond of the idea of upgrading to GLIBC_2.30 as a resolution to this issue. Primarily because (a) I am not sure what other stability issues that might introduce under 18.04/bionic base / other apps on my system, (b) while I like waterfox, the amount of effort to install updates on my system is already quite high as compared with firefox/chromium/chrome which all either appear in the central repos or have official ppa's and I don't like the idea of adding another step to the update/install process which I already am wrapping in a shell script that frequently needs updating.

grahamperrin commented 4 years ago

https://redd.it/eogn31

zpangwin commented 4 years ago

https://redd.it/eogn31

awesome, thanks for sharing!

ilu33 commented 4 years ago

Build systems need to be conservative and not cutting edge - Debian oldstable (now: stretch) would be a good candidate. It's still supported with security updates but sufficiently old so that a majority of systems gets covered. I'm not familiar with rpm based distros but an older version of CentOS might work as well. Just please stay away from the popular fancy stuff with their frequent updates.

hawkeye116477 commented 4 years ago

Debian 9 has glibc 2.24 and Ubuntu Xenial has 2.23, so would be a problem. Better is rather CentOS 7. https://pkgs.org/download/glibc

laniakea64 commented 4 years ago

Official Waterfox Classic 2020.01.1 Linux build seems to run fine for me in Xubuntu 16.04, Xubuntu 18.04, and CentOS 8. Does it work for other people?

ilu33 commented 4 years ago

No it does not work on debian10 stable (buster), although we have Glibc 2.28.

/opt/waterfox-classic-test/waterfox
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /opt/waterfox-classic-test/libmozsandbox.so:
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.26' not found (required by /opt/waterfox-classic-test/libmozsandbox.so)
Couldn't load XPCOM.

ldd --version
ldd (Debian GLIBC 2.28-10) 2.28

strings /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 | grep GLIBCXX_3.4.
<snip>
GLIBCXX_3.4.20
GLIBCXX_3.4.21
GLIBCXX_3.4.22
GLIBCXX_3.4.23
GLIBCXX_3.4.24
GLIBCXX_3.4.25

Notice the absence of 3.4.26

@MrAlex94 it would make things much easier if you decided to built waterfox in a virtual machine with a really conservative distro like debian (I'd say old-stable i.e. stretch which is LTS until 2022) or, as somebody else recommended, centos7. No Ubuntu. Please at least cover current debian stable.

emtiu commented 4 years ago

This appear to be fixed in 2020.03

brucerv commented 4 years ago

Still not fixed in 2020.03 for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. GLIBCXX_3.4.22 not found Most recent version that works is waterfox-56.0.2

Is it known to work for Ubuntu 18?

emtiu commented 4 years ago

It runs on Debian 8 (Jessie), which at first glance should be an even older base than Ubuntu 16.

lproven commented 4 years ago

Still not fixed in 2020.03 for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

There is now 2020.03.1. I suggest trying that.

WFM under openSUSE Leap 15.1, openSUSE Tumbleweed & Ubuntu 19.10.

emtiu commented 4 years ago

.. aaaaand the problem is back with 2020.04

dclement100 commented 4 years ago

I can confirm that it doesn't work either on Debian 9 (Stretch), because of the version of GLIBC:

XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /opt/waterfox-classic/liblgpllibs.so:
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.27' not found (required by /opt/waterfox-classic/liblgpllibs.so)
Couldn't load XPCOM.

Debian 9 only has 2.24 for now, so we're stuck with Waterfox-classic 2020.03.1. Hopefully Waterfox-classic, which supports old add-ons, won't let down old distros.

mariush444 commented 4 years ago

I've found solution/workaround for my Mint 18.1 (64 bit) that have Libc 2.27. Waterfox 2020.04 and above needs Libc 2.28.

I downloaded libc 2.30 from https://packages.ubuntu.com/eoan/amd64/libc6-udeb/download then I extracted files useing command dpkg-deb -x libc6-udeb_2.30-0ubuntu2_amd64.udeb ./tempdir

then I created folder/directory (as root) /usr/alternates/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu put into the directory the files libm.so.6 and libm-2.30.so from tempdir/lib

then I created file ld.so.preload in /etc (as root) the file contains only one line /usr/alternates/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6

Then waterfox 2020.06 works. This solution should work for Ubunto and Debian. Yuo should download 32-bit libc if your system is 32-bit.

Now Waterfox uses new libc 2.30 from preloded but other programs use standard libm.so.6 (libc 2.27) from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/

ilu33 commented 4 years ago

Is there any official download source with old versions, especially 20.03? The website seems to only give access to the latest version. @MrAlex94 ?

hawkeye116477 commented 4 years ago

@ilu33 You can see some of links on https://github.com/grahamperrin/Waterfox/wiki/Archive-of-change-logs,-announcements-and-downloads or just change version in latest URL.

mariush444 commented 4 years ago

Is there any official download source with old versions, especially 20.03? The website seems to only give access to the latest version. @MrAlex94 ?

https://cdn.waterfox.net/releases/linux64/installer/waterfox-classic-2020.03.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 https://cdn.waterfox.net/releases/linux64/installer/waterfox-current-2020.03.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2