Comments on: “Couldn’t load XPCOM” after Firefox upgrade

By: Dwight

Dwight — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:10:40 +0000

Today, I’m cat sitting for my neighbours while they are on holiday. While in the shower, I heard a thump against the door. Assuming it was one of their cats, I called out, Is that you Billy? Imagine my surprise when Billy responded with, Yeah, it is. FML http://www.moarrs72991g.com

By: Improve PC Speed

Improve PC Speed — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 06:49:01 +0000

Nice read, I just passed this onto a friend who was doing some research on that. And he just bought me lunch because I found it for him smile Thus let me rephrase that: Thank you for lunch!

By: Liang

Liang — Mon, 23 May 2011 09:14:45 +0000

Thank you for your solution. It works!

By: dunbur

dunbur — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:05:19 +0000

Thanks! I am not running gentoo but suse, but your link to the Dev Center help and I was able to identifiy the missing dependencies.

By: Mikayel

Mikayel — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:53:14 +0000

Thanks, it did solve my problem on Gentoo. FF 3.0.x refused to start. Problem gone after nss re-emerge.

By: Cynyr

Cynyr — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:44:11 +0000

I should have known to try revdep first. I wonder if there is an option to have portage run it after a “emerge -avuD world” for me.

By: Ewald

Ewald — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:19:23 +0000

That is indeed a good idea, you could add
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--ask --verbose"
to your make.conf to avoid having to ever add -av to any emerge command you invoke… but that does not work when revdep-rebuild triggers Portage.
So, yeah:
revdep-rebuild -- -av
Thanks!

By: Alexander Wigen

Alexander Wigen — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:50:54 +0000

On newer versions of revdep-rebuild you will have to run something like this:
revdep-rebuild — -av

– to pass options to emerge
-av to ask before executing the merge and be verbose about it. This also saves you running revdep-rebuild twice.

By: Danny Bruce

Danny Bruce — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:33:55 +0000

Thanks for blogging about this. Woke up this morning to the same problem. The reason I stick with Gentoo is because of the great amount of help that comes from the community.