Originally posted by: robinsguk

Hello,

I'm having trouble running firefox. Here's my environment:

AIX 6.1 TL5
Firefox 3.5.8.0

I have downloaded the firefox gz file from the IBM Entitled Software site so it's the correct version for my system.

installp reports that Firefox.base is installed and committed.

When I try and run /usr/bin/firefox I receive:

exec(): 0509-0366 Cannot load program /usr/mozilla/firefox/firefox-bin because of the following errors:
0509-022 Cannot load module /usr/lib/libfontconfig.a(libfontconfig.so.1).
0509-150 Dependant module /lib/libxml2.a(libxml2.so.2) could not be loaded.
0509-103 The module has an invalid magic number.
0509-022 Cannot load module firefox-bin.
0509-150 Dependant module /usr/lib/libfontconfig.a(libfontconfig.so.1) could not be loaded
0509-022 Cannot load module.

So, I can see there's an issue with libxml2.
libxml2-2.6.17-3 is installed and committed.

Files libxml2.a and libxml2.so.2 is are /lib

Can anyone suggest what I need to do to correct this error?

Thanks

Glenn

Originally posted by: SimonMarchese

Can you check whether the prequisite RPMs are installed? This is from the README for Firefox 3.5.8 from the ESS site.

1. Before Firefox(64 bit) can be installed, the prerequisite RPMs from the
Firefox CD or from the AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications must be installed.
The specific 64 bit RPMs required by Firefox are the following:

atk-1.12.3-2.aix5.2.ppc.rpm
cairo-1.8.8-1.aix5.2.ppc.rpm
expat-2.0.1-1.aix5.2.ppc.rpm
fontconfig-2.4.2-1.aix5.2.ppc.rpm
freetype2-2.3.9-1.aix5.2.ppc.rpm
gettext-0.10.40-6.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
glib2-2.12.4-2.aix5.2.ppc.rpm
gtk2-2.10.6-4.aix5.2.ppc.rpm
libjpeg-6b-6.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
libpng-1.2.32-2.aix5.2.ppc.rpm
libtiff-3.8.2-1.aix5.2.ppc.rpm
pango-1.14.5-4.aix5.2.ppc.rpm
xcursor-1.1.7-3.aix5.2.ppc.rpm
xft-2.1.6-5.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
xrender-0.9.1-3.aix5.2.ppc.rpm
zlib-1.2.3-3.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
pixman-0.12.0-3.aix5.2.ppc.rpm

Originally posted by: tiana

hi,

i followed the link in the readme doc which took me to another link 'ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/INSTALLP/ppc/rpm.rte' where i'm to finally download the packages and it gave me page error. pls is there any other link i go to to download the packaged. thank in advance.

Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

bash-4.2# firefox
Could not load program /usr/mozilla/firefox/firefox-bin:
Could not load module /opt/freeware/lib/libfontconfig.a(libfontconfig.so.1).
Dependent module /usr/lib/libiconv.a(libiconv.so.2) could not be loaded.
Member libiconv.so.2 is not found in archive
Could not load module firefox-bin.
Dependent module /opt/freeware/lib/libfontconfig.a(libfontconfig.so.1) could not be loaded.
Could not load module .
bash-4.2#
Can you please provide any suggestion on this errors

Originally posted by: MichaelAM

1st step: verify that the iconv fileset is installed: bos.rte.iconv

michael@x054:[/home/michael]lslpp -w /usr/lib/libiconv.a
File Fileset Type

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/usr/lib/libiconv.a bos.rte.iconv File