On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 6:44 AM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 5:07 AM, Tom Furie <t...@furie.org.uk> wrote: > >> On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 12:03:17PM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> > But installing libc6:i386 and a few others allows firefox to work: >> >> Meaning installing the :i386 versions of the libraries was (part of) the >> solution, not the problem. Any bug report would have to go against a >> part of the system that was part of the problem (not withstanding that >> firefox was installed in a non-standard location and from a non-standard >> repository). The only real candidates, given that the problem was mainly >> regarding an insufficient error message about missing libraries, are ld >> or the kernel. Anything further up than the linker in this scenario can >> only say "something went wrong, but I don't know what" unless they >> themselves are given more detailed information. >> > > Well, okay, we need to start somewhere, and, while we suspect ld, we don't > really know for sure. And we suspect that the actual fix may not end up > being in ld. > > So, what is the name of the package that is trying to load libc6:i386? > That probably isn't where the bug is, but it seems to be the cause of the > bug. > Well, I mean, it seems to be what exposes the bug. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart.