Firefox don't run

[thorero]

I'm a newbie in 64 bits system (I use gentoo without problem for years in 32 bits)

I have this problem when try to execute firefox-bin (32 bits) in my gentoo.

[loftwyr]

What is the output from

[thorero]

[loftwyr]

It looks like your glibc installation is messed up and you're missing some of the 32 bit libraries. You need to re-emerge it and firefox-bin.

Make sure your system is up to date (emerge -auDvN world) before you do so. You may also need to run revdep-rebuild (from gentoolkit)
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[coolsnowmen]

[coolsnowmen]

[loftwyr]

The "not a dynamic" is a sign that it's having problems finding your 32bit glibc libraries or something else basic to your system.

I would make sure you're up to date and revdep-rebuild'd to ensure nothing is missing or mislinked.
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[coolsnowmen]

Edit: removed, I was wrong
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[loftwyr]

Thanks but we've been dealing with /opt/firefox/firefox-bin. Read the thread again.
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[coolsnowmen]

Did you recently do an in place update of compilers, or convert from a 32 to 64bit system, or something else toolchain specific?
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[thorero]

thanks for your answers, but when I try to recompile glibc y have this error

[alienjon]

This is almost starting to smell like an inside issue, have you recompiled your kernel recently? Also, what are your USE flags for gcc?

[thorero]

I recompiled my kernel to have ia32 compability

[loftwyr]

That error usually happens when you try to convert from a no-multilib profile to a multilib profile. If that's hwat's happened it can require a full re-install to fix.
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[thorero]

but i never had no-multilib profile
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[coolsnowmen]

Your toolchain is probably broken. You need to repair/reinstall it. No matter what I would start burning the latest gentoo bootcd.

Short of a full reinstall, You can try packaging up parts of the tool chain from a temporary chroot and hand installing them on your system and then rebooting. I think the tool chain consists of linux-headers, binutils, glibc, gcc, libtool...(and portage uses python)
But many people find this complicated and can be just as time consuming (man hours) as backing up certain directories and reinstalling.
With the config files from /etc, the world file, and the .config kernel config file, you have most of the information necessary to rebuild an entire system quickly.

IF you have the HD space, smart chrooting can make sure you don't loose anything until you have it all back.
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[number_nine]

What leads to a situation like this? I'm having virtually the exact same problem as the original poster on a fresh install. The machine is an Athlon 64 X2 3800, FWIW. I've installed Gentoo on AMD64 many times before. In fact, I'm using the same boot CD and stage3 tarball (well, not the exact same, but same md5sum---same enough!).

I haven't even got to trying firefox, etc out yet. But, for example:

[number_nine]

Okay, upon closer inspection, I found one of the machines I previously built has similar issues.

The previous machine in consideration is virtually the exact same hardware as the current. The previous machine is used as a MythTV box for my parents. It's been running reliably (and they really use it often) for months.

However, if I try to use cpuburn, I get the same result as I posted above. Same thing with IceWM.

Here's what threw me: I'm trying to run icewm on my machine; my parents' machine runs fluxbox. Whenever I try to run IceWM on my machine, it immediately segfaults. Looking at the output of ldd icewm above, you can see there's something amiss. Well, ldd of fluxbox on both mine and my parents' computers gives exactly the same suspicious error message. But, fluxbox runs fine on both machines!

The only difference I can see between my parents' machine and my current build, versus my other working AMD64 boxes is that /etc/make.profile points to the "desktop" sub-profile on the working boxes. It just points to the default "2006.1" profile on the broken ones.

Here's what happens when I try to rebuild gcc:

[number_nine]

GRRR, simple solution: include IA32 (CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION) emulation support in the kernel!

Figures both mine and my parents' computer would have the same problem---I copied my kernel config from their computer!

At least it's fixed!

[coolsnowmen]

@number nine
I am glad you found your problem.

I wonder why the emulation libraries don't check to see if there is kernel support...or maybe they do, and you installed a newkernel after the fact....
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[ianomc]

I have the exact same problem. Suddenly last Monday firefox stopped working. I tried updating glibc but I get the same error....