TB 6.0a5: updater doesn't work on Linux (cannot find libraries)

When testing the 6.0a5 updater using our own Linux64 build, the updater fails to run because it cannot locate Mozilla shared libraries:

error while loading shared libraries: libmozsqlite3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Code in toolkit/xre/nsUpdateDriver.cpp is supposed to add the Browser directory to LD_LIBRARY_PATH. We will need to see why that is not happening.

added TorBrowserTeam201604R component::applications/tor browser ff45-esr owner::mcs priority::immediate resolution::fixed severity::blocker status::closed tbb-6.0a5 type::defect labels

Thanks for finding this one. I guess this is a blocker for the 6.0a5 release? This basically means updating from 6.0a4 is working but one from 6.0a5 to 6.5a1 would break, right?

Trac:
Status: new to needs_information

Replying to gk:

Thanks for finding this one. I guess this is a blocker for the 6.0a5 release? This basically means updating from 6.0a4 is working but one from 6.0a5 to 6.5a1 would break, right?

Correct: the update to version.next will fail. And it does seem like a blocker. We are working on understanding this bug so we can create a fix for it. In hindsight, Kathy and I should have tested this sooner :(

No worries, we gonna ship the alpha one day later then

Trac:
Priority: Very High to Immediate
Status: needs_information to assigned
Severity: Normal to Blocker

This bug is caused by a Mozilla change that I was worried about when I first saw it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1159090#c4

Kathy and I are making a Linux build of our own right now to verify that backing out the Bugzilla 1159090 change fixes this ticket. Later we can work on a better fix that Mozilla will accept.

Trac:
Cc: gk, mcs, brade to gk, mcs, brade, boklm, tbb-team

Trac:
Keywords: N/A deleted, tbb-6.0a5, ff45-esr, TorBrowserTeam201604 added

Here is a patch that reverts Mozilla's change: https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/brade/tor-browser.git/commit/?h=pctmp2&id=ff56416f75f24f0cf8d420c56c6fc40ce0f71539

Trac:
Keywords: TorBrowserTeam201604 deleted, TorBrowserTeam201604R added
Status: assigned to needs_review

Thanks, fixed with commit 82cfa7c8786c1ad1421666365bd71f3594861328 on tor-browser-45.1.0esr-6.0-1.

Trac:
Status: needs_review to closed
Resolution: N/A to fixed

closed

mentioned in issue #25311 (moved)

mentioned in issue #29104 (moved)

mentioned in issue #30429 (moved)

mentioned in issue #30429 (moved)

moved to tpo/applications/tor-browser#18900 (closed)

mentioned in issue tpo/applications/tor-browser#25311 (closed)