Tuesday, October 16, 2012

After Update Firefox is not working; /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/xulrunner/libxul.so: undefined symbol: PR_SetCurrentThreadName [solution]

When i tried to run firefox after update on my fedora 17 machine,  when i was trying to run it nothing has appeared. also i tried to run it on terminal to find out what error is happening i got


/usr/lib64/firefox/firefox: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/xulrunner/libxul.so: undefined symbol: PR_SetCurrentThreadName


a quick search over the internet brought to me an easy solution since this problem seems to be popular, the solution was to update a package called nspr

#yum update nspr

reference : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=865941

2 comments:

  1. Thanks! I just came up against the same problem and that fixed it for me!

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  2. Thanks a lot! It did the trick.

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