[csw-users] Firefox Solaris8 failure

[George Wyche]

Of some 110+ blastwave packages I put on this Solaris 8 Blade100, the 
only one I have found that won't start is Firefox. I get

 >ls.so.1: /opt/csw/mozilla/firefox/lib/firefox-bin: fatal: relocation 
error: file /opt/csw/mozilla/firefox/lib/libxpcom_core.so: symbol 
__1c2n6FIpv_0_: referenced symbol not found
Killed

After looking at the few similar failures I found referenced via Google, 
I deleted my MOZILLA_HOME environment var holdover from Netscape 4.76 
and I deleted the entire my local .mozilla directory. I also tried 
launching  Firefox as  root. Always acts the same. This  Solaris  8 was 
not updated to the final revision so I get those messages about language 
patches, and I tell it to start anyway, but a few moments later comes 
the above message.

The 2 unusual things about this setup are the mandatory lack of internet 
access and the mandatory 8-bit pseudo color visual so that an old, 
tyrannical, program will work. [Note: that program is also why at home I 
cannot upgrade to Solaris 10 8/07. I had to go back to 11/06 which 
allows starting out with a pseudo color visual.]

How shall I go about investigating this error?

I sure hate going back to Netscape 4.76 which is working on this box. 
The box does not have internet access so getting things onto it always 
involves me writing a CD at home and carrying it to work.

George