Re: Linux / error -618 xpistub <- FIXED!!!

finally figured out the problem.  the file libxpistub.so is in the
/usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1 folder.  just copied that to /usr/lib and
worked fine

"BlankMan" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 23:57:10 -0600, John Smith wrote:
> 
> > I am not sure I am in the correct newsgroup, but this problem seems to
> > stem from the XPInstall shared library.  The Netscape/Mozilla installers
> > fail every time with "Fatal error [~618]: Couldn't open xpistub
> > library", this is not specific to my installation (libxpistub.so is in
> > my standard library path and is in ld.so.conf, and several posters have
> > similar messages w/o a response or fix - google of "~618 xpistub" turns
> > up bad installs from back in 2001); I am wondering if this is a result 
> > of version mismatch of the shared library, my current installation is
> > Netscape 7.02 (Gecko/20030208).  Also the installations fail on
> > Extration of libplc4.so (which is also in my std lib path).  I cannot
> > find any options for turning on debug or verbose reporting.  Any
> > thoughts/fixes/redirection would be appreciated.  I have tried clean
> > install path using different options for install each time, I have even 
> > extracted xpcom.xpi and manually installed the shared libraries.  I have 
> > used both -bin and -install binaries for the installation, both failing.
> 
> Howdy,
> 	I figure'd out what went wrong, in file
> mozilla/xpinstall/wizard/unix/src2/nsXIEngine.cpp:655
> libpath is = to NULL ; this is a big problem, since it is searching the root
> directory for libxpistub.so (exact line:
> sprintf(libpath,"%s/%s",libpath,XPISTUB);.  Short fix: cp libxpistub.so from std.
> library location to root dir (if you have privledges) and remove it
> afterwards.  Perhaps I should submit a patch for this...  Hope this helps
> someone.