Bug#634721: xulrunner-5.0: xulrunner-stub throws "Could not find the Mozilla runtime" error

[Mike Hommey]

reassign 634721 conkeror
thanks

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 07:31:20PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Package: xulrunner-5.0
> Version: 5.0-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> I'm trying to use again the Debian-specific feature of being able to
> symlink xulrunner-stub from the directory which includes the
> application.ini of a xulrunner application (conkeror FWIW), but since
> xulrunner-5.0 calling /usr/share/conkeror/xulrunner-stub (which is a
> symlink to /usr/bin/xulrunner-stub) fails as follows:
> 
> $ sh -x /usr/bin/conkeror
> + XULRUNNER=
> + [ -L /usr/bin/xulrunner-stub ]
> + XULRUNNER=/usr/share/conkeror/xulrunner-stub
> + [ -z /usr/share/conkeror/xulrunner-stub ]
> + [  = --help ]
> + exec /usr/share/conkeror/xulrunner-stub
> Could not find the Mozilla runtime.
> 
> (Note: The above is not yet in the Debian package in Sid, but from a
> feature branch in git:
> http://repo.or.cz/w/conkeror.git/shortlog/refs/heads/xr-stub-symlink)
> 
> This happens with xulrunner-5.0 from Unstable and xulrunner-6.0 from
> mozilla.debian.net, but works fine with xulrunner-1.9.1 from Unstable,
> xulrunner-1.9.2 and xulrunner-2.0 as available previously in either
> Experimental or on mozilla.debian.net.
> 
> Calling e.g. "xulrunner-$version /usr/share/conkeror/application.ini"
> still works fine with all of the above mentioned versions.

You need to add a /usr/share/conkeror/xulrunner symbolic link to
/usr/lib/xulrunner-5.0.

Mike