Bug#692315: iceape-browser: won't start

[Bzzz]

On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 01:09:13 +0100
Stefan Baur <newsgroups.mail2 at stefanbaur.de> wrote:

> Hi Jiff,

Hi Stephan und Michael,

> we here at the Debian Bug Squashing Party currently taking place at the 
> Linuxhotel in Essen, Germany tried to replicate your bug.

Hehe, Essen is a nice place.

> We are *not* seeing the issue when calling "iceape" on a regular user's 
> shell.
> "which iceape", in our case, returns "/usr/bin/iceape" (which is a shell 
> script).

Hu? /usr/bin/iceape on my machine is a symlink pointing to: ../lib/iceape/iceape
(and BTW the problem's the same w/ iceweasel:(

> However, we *are* seeing your issue when calling 
> "/usr/lib/iceape/iceape-bin" directly. That fails with exactly the error 
> message you provided.

That's looks ok according my bin which is a symlink.

> My guess is that you have a symlink iceape -> /usr/lib/iceape/iceape-bin 
> somewhere in your path that gets executed instead of /usr/bin/iceape.

Exactly, so from what you said above I miss the iceape binary in /usr/bin.

> Could you please check the output of "which iceape" on your system, and 
> tell us the content of your PATH ("echo $PATH")?

which iceape
/usr/bin/iceape

la /usr/bin/iceape 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 oct.  26 22:43 /usr/bin/iceape -> ../lib/iceape/iceape

I'm purging iceape, checking that the symlink is also purged (or 
manually remove it), reinstall and keep you aware of the result.
(and iceweasel that have the same problem).

JY
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