Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago
Also fails on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic with Firefox 3.5.4
Original comment by james.as...@gmail.com
on 20 Nov 2009 at 4:36
Also on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic with FF 3.5.5.
Original comment by mikerogerz
on 20 Nov 2009 at 6:45
seems to be the same as already logged issue# 975. I propose a merge to that
issue...
Original comment by osk...@gmail.com
on 21 Nov 2009 at 7:12
fails on FF 3.5.5, Karmic, Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5)
Gecko/20091109 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.5
Original comment by fdoerksen@gmail.com
on 22 Nov 2009 at 7:32
fails also for Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic + Firefox 3.5.5
Original comment by ptrdv...@gmail.com
on 25 Nov 2009 at 1:10
Still failing with Jaunty and the current Firefox. I've been seeing this for
several
weeks now, running past a number of updates.
From Launchpad, I've seen some reports that suggest the problem might be
related to
language issues, and I do have the Japanese language installed, including input
and
the Firefox settings. My preferences are for English first, however. Do the
other
people reporting this problem also have non-English language packages installed?
Probably not relevant, but the hardware is a Sharp laptop with an AMD CPU. It's
never
worked perfectly with Ubuntu, but the last major glitch seemed to have been
cured by
the Jaunty upgrade. (I just upgraded to Karmic in a scratch partition on the
same
machine, but that's caused so many new problems that I'm not going to upgrade my
working partition yet.)
Original comment by shannon....@gmail.com
on 30 Nov 2009 at 4:36
Not working on 9.10 Karmic 64-bit with Firefox 3.5.5.
Original comment by akaking...@gmail.com
on 1 Dec 2009 at 4:56
Also not working with Linux Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty + Firefox 3.5.5
Original comment by dorak...@gmail.com
on 9 Dec 2009 at 1:51
IT seems to be working, but I do get many dialogues complaining that I have
Shiretoko
- the wrong version of Firefox???
Original comment by Ben2t...@gmail.com
on 9 Dec 2009 at 3:44
Still broken here, and it complains two or three times after each boot... I'm
only
seeing on this one machine, so there must be something odd here. Where do I
look to
figure out the REAL problem?
Original comment by shannon....@gmail.com
on 9 Dec 2009 at 10:02
still broken.
gears v. 0.5.32.0
firefox v. 3.0.14
ubuntu 9.04
kernel 2.6.28-16-generic #55-Ubuntu SMP
Original comment by jmm...@gmail.com
on 12 Dec 2009 at 10:06
Ubuntu 9.10 AND Kubuntu 9.10 both get this error, on both old and new installs
of the
latest repo version of Firefox.
Original comment by baseball...@gmail.com
on 12 Dec 2009 at 6:13
Same thing here, on Fedora 12, kernel 2.6.31.6-166, Firefox 3.5.5-1, Gears
0.5.32.0 .
It is NOT a language issue, as I have an English system, and no additional
language
packs installed.
The message seems to pop up kind of randomly, I just got the popup, but there
is no
new update. Maybe it's firefox not being able to check for updates?
Reinstalling google gears does not solve the issue.
Original comment by romano.n...@gmail.com
on 13 Dec 2009 at 10:40
Not working Ubuntu 9.10 and Firefox 3.5.5
Original comment by rogerslu...@gmail.com
on 17 Dec 2009 at 12:39
Same random error popup
Gears 0.5.32.0
Firefox 3.5.2
Fedora 11
2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.i686.PAE i386 GNU/Linux
Original comment by gokhanse...@gmail.com
on 27 Dec 2009 at 12:06
I see it's already a month since I reported it as an OLD issue. Now it seems to
be
complaining about twice per login. However, I haven't seen it on several other
machines, so I don't think it's that widespread. I think this means that Google
Gears
is only installed in unusual cases, but I don't know why that particular
machine has
installed it.
For what it is worth, I just checked this machine, where I have Ubuntu 9.10
running
in VMware Player. Everything seems to be running normally there, but Google
Gears is
evidently NOT installed there. Ditto for the Firefox 3.5.6 running in the host
Windows XP.
I don't really care if this is just more evidence of Google's trend to evil
greed or
simple incompetence, but I'm tired of the warnings and the repeated 2.7-MB
downloads
to no avail. Is there any reason not to uninstall Google Gears completely from
that
machine? Will I encounter some kind of crisis if I try to load some webpage that
still needs Google Gears (which is evidently no longer supported for Linux)?
Original comment by shannon....@gmail.com
on 27 Dec 2009 at 12:58
See issue 975.
Original comment by r.drew.d...@gmail.com
on 29 Dec 2009 at 1:17
[deleted comment]
This is still happening ("Google Gears" could not be installed because it is not
compatible with your Firefox build type (Linux_x86-gcc3). Please contact the
author
of this item about the problem.) in FF 3.5.7 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686;
en-US;
rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100106 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.7) under Ubuntu 9.10
(Karmic).
I am attributing the failure of my HTC Hero to sync with Google Calendar to
this :-)
because it was for that purpose GCal wanted me to install Gears.
Is there any move to solve the problem?
Original comment by anglebra...@gmail.com
on 14 Feb 2010 at 9:36
I 'solved' it by uninstalling the software long ago, and so far I haven't
noticed any
negative ramifications. Perhaps another one of Google's orphaned projects? I
think
some components were used in other things, but maybe it doesn't have any
'standalone'
existence now?
However, my main reason for revisiting the thread was to try to unsubscribe
from this
mooted discussion. It appears Google doesn't offer that level of control, so
the only
option available is to cancel all follow-up notices. Yet more evidence of the
increasing evil of Google? (Okay, so my real beef is that they deleted a bunch
of
political mumblings I wrote--but which I (of course) regard as a First Amendment
matter. At this point it makes me laugh to hear that Google is bothered by
Chinese
censorship, when Google has apparently become the biggest censors of all.)
Original comment by shannon....@gmail.com
on 17 Feb 2010 at 1:21
For those that are getting here after searching for the answer here is a
breakdown of
the problem.
The version being downloaded from the gears site is for 64bit and not 32bit. A
comment on another issue
http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=975#c50 has
a link to a place where an older (5.33) can be found and used.
Original comment by kirkhams...@gmail.com
on 19 Mar 2010 at 6:36
@ kirkhamsystems
"For those that are getting here after searching for the answer here is a
breakdown of
the problem.
The version being downloaded from the gears site is for 64bit and not 32bit.
..."
here is a step-by-step for 32bit users:
mkdir /tmp/gears ; cd /tmp/gears
wget http://dl.google.com/gears/current/gears-linux-opt.xpi
unzip gears-linux-opt.xpi
sed -i "s/Linux_x86_64-gcc3/Linux_x86-gcc3/" install.rdf
zip -r gears-linux-opt.xpi install.rdf
Now open firefox then press CTRL+O (open file), browse to /tmp/gears/ and
install the
"patched" gears-linux-opt.xpi
Done!
:D
Original comment by squashs...@gmail.com
on 13 Apr 2010 at 1:38
Fabulous! That worked! Very grateful :)
Original comment by jupp....@gmail.com
on 3 May 2010 at 8:57
Thank squashspam.
it worked on my
linux:ubuntu 10.04
firefox:3.6.3 ko
Original comment by simry...@gmail.com
on 28 May 2010 at 11:39
[deleted comment]
Well, that solves the problem of getting Gears to install, but it doesn't
actually
work once it's installed!
The problem appears to be that Google has gone from shipping a 32-bit only
version of
gears to shipping a 64-bit only version (if you look in the unpacked archive
you'll
find several shared libraries, all of which are 64 bit only):
craigster0@temp[gears]pwd
/tmp/gears
craigster0@temp[gears]find . -name '*.so' | xargs file
./lib/ff35/libgears.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV),
dynamically linked, not stripped
./lib/ff30/libgears.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV),
dynamically linked, not stripped
./lib/ff36/libgears.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV),
dynamically linked, not stripped
Also, for what little it's worth i corrected the above set of commands and put
them
in a script which is attached to this email. But there's not much point in
running it.
My system is FireFox 3.6.3, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx), and here's the
output of
uname -a:
Linux temp 2.6.32-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 08:10:02 UTC 2010 i686
GNU/Linux
Original comment by charms...@gmail.com
on 1 Jun 2010 at 3:33
Attachments:
I found a real fix over in Issue 975. Check out comment 69:
http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=975#c69
I've posted the fix to the Google Support Forum. it's:
http://www.google.hu/support/forum/p/Calendar/thread?tid=0a2aba02dfbeb1b4&hl=en
Beats me why that's "google.hu".
Original comment by craigst...@gmail.com
on 1 Jun 2010 at 4:36
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
jhnd...@gmail.com
on 18 Nov 2009 at 10:06