Re: Failure lauching application since iceweasel -> Firefox

Here the reply by the developer of Vuescan, who had already let me know
that he never heard of iceweasel:

This isn’t being started from VueScan code – it’s probably
> something in a shared library.
>
> Regards,
> Ed Hamrick
>


so, it seems to be an issue to be resolved within amd64 (Vuescan code works
perfectly, it is only the updating that failed)

thanks

francesco pietra

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 10:40 PM, Lennart Sorensen <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 04:08:36PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> > On last "upgrade" of amd64 wheezy I found Firefox in place of iceweasel.
> > OK, except that the single commercial application in my box (Vuescan) now
> > fails to upgrade
> >
> >
> > francesco@tya64:~/Vuescan$ ./vuescan
> > gvfs-open: http://www.hamrick.com/upgrade-l64.html: error launching
> > application: Failed to execute child process
> "/usr/lib/iceweasel/iceweasel"
> > (No such file or directory)
> > francesco@tya64:~/Vuescan$
> >
> >
> > I was unable to remedy with a softlink. What to do? Thanks
>
> Why would some application be poking at another package's private
> internals?  It should not be poking in /usr/lib/iceweasel.  If it wants
> to do anything with iceweasel (or firefox) it should use the binary in
> /usr/bin to do so.
>
> I don't know who is responsible for gvfs-open trying to do that.
>
> --
> Len Sorensen
>