[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#783858: Unable to start from a symlink (like x-www-browser)

[Bob Proulx]

Vincent Bernat wrote:
> /usr/bin/x-www-browser: 95: exec: /usr/lib/chromium/x-www-browser: not found

This reads like a broken symlink.  Can you trace through them and see
where it is broken?

  $ update-alternatives --display x-www-browser
  x-www-browser - auto mode
    link currently points to /usr/bin/iceweasel
  /usr/bin/chromium - priority 40
  /usr/bin/conkeror - priority 20
    slave x-www-browser.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/conkeror.1.gz
  /usr/bin/dwb - priority 50
    slave x-www-browser.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/dwb.1.gz
  /usr/bin/iceweasel - priority 70
    slave x-www-browser.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/iceweasel.1.gz
  /usr/bin/midori - priority 50
    slave x-www-browser.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/midori.1.gz
  /usr/bin/uzbl-browser - priority 10
  /usr/bin/xlinks2 - priority 69
    slave x-www-browser.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/xlinks2.1.gz
  Current 'best' version is '/usr/bin/iceweasel'.

And manually tracing the values shows.

  $ ls -l /usr/bin/x-www-browser
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 May  3  2010 /usr/bin/x-www-browser -> /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser

  $ ls -l /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Dec 29  2013 /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser -> /usr/bin/iceweasel

That is because my default is iceweasel because the priority is 70 for
it and only 40 for chromium.  I could manually configure it however.

  # update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
  There are 7 choices for the alternative x-www-browser (providing /usr/bin/x-www-browser).

    Selection    Path                   Priority   Status
  ------------------------------------------------------------
  * 0            /usr/bin/iceweasel      70        auto mode
    1            /usr/bin/chromium       40        manual mode
    2            /usr/bin/conkeror       20        manual mode
    3            /usr/bin/dwb            50        manual mode
    4            /usr/bin/iceweasel      70        manual mode
    5            /usr/bin/midori         50        manual mode
    6            /usr/bin/uzbl-browser   10        manual mode
    7            /usr/bin/xlinks2        69        manual mode

  Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: 

Then make a selection as desired and set it to a different browser.

Bob
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