[Esbox-users] cannot start esbox. starting esbox displays empty dialog on Ubuntu Karmic

Tue Nov 17 11:57:52 EET 2009

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2009-10-26 18:41 /bin/sh -> dash

After the following mods, the script ran:
- use bash
- help() -> help
- help(); -> help

but the error re-appeared because XULOPTIONS was ''

when I use  '-vmargs
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/usr/bin/xulrunner' directly, which
uses version 1.9, it works correctly. do this mean that 1.8 is not needed?

Shouldn't 1.18 in the help function be 1.8.1?

thanks.

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:34 AM, <Ed.Swartz at nokia.com> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> Hmm, that script works for me with bash and dash.  What shell do you have
> for /bin/sh?
>
> -- Ed
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* ext Mustali Dalal [mailto:archebyte at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, November 16, 2009 6:48 PM
> *To:* Swartz Ed (Nokia-D/Austin)
> *Cc:* esbox-users at garage.maemo.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Esbox-users] cannot start esbox. starting esbox displays
> empty dialog on Ubuntu Karmic
>
> I got an error executing it.
> archebyte $ ./esbox.sh
> ./esbox.sh: 6: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
>
> However, looking at the script, I was able to set the startup parameters
> manually and I am now able to start esbox.
> ./esbox -vmargs -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/usr/bin/xulrunner
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:00 AM, <Ed.Swartz at nokia.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>>  Thanks for the reply Ed. Did you mean 1.9 and 1.8 instead of 1.19/1.18?
>>  [[[ejs]]] Oh yes, sorry about the version confusion. 1.8.
>>
>>  I did install xulrunner and set the GDK variable. still didn't work.
>> Did you find and use the esbox.sh script from the latest integration
>> release?  It should tell you which xulrunner it found or if it failed.  It
>> looks first at the xulrunner on the PATH and then tries
>> /usr/lib/xulrunner/xulrunner, which I think is where it is in the package
>> shown below.
>>
>> The contents of the script are included below if they're missing from the
>> archive.
>>
>> -- Ed
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> # This script sets up the environment to run Eclipse in newer
>> # versions of Linux which are slightly incompatible with Eclipse 3.4.2.
>>
>> function help() {
>>  echo "Note: xulrunner 1.18.1 should be installed if Eclipse crashes
>> unexpectedly"
>>  echo "      on startup, with hover help, during wizards, etc."
>>  echo "See
>> https://garage.maemo.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=4689&group_id=192&atid=1420
>> "
>> }
>>
>> # first, Eclipse depends on an old version of xulrunner.
>> XULRUNNER=`which xulrunner`
>> XULOPTS=""
>> if [ -z "$XULRUNNER" ] ; then
>>  help()
>> else
>>  XULVERSION=`$XULRUNNER -v 2>&1 | awk '{print $3}' | cut -d. -f1,2`
>>  if [ "$XULVERSION" != "1.8" ] ; then
>>   help();
>>  else
>>   XULOPTS="-vmargs -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=$XULRUNNER"
>>  fi
>> fi
>>
>> # This is a fix for dependencies on GTK 2.16 (and older) behavior, which
>> # if unfixed, results in annoying dialog behavior where the mouse cannot
>> # properly click buttons, use tables, etc.
>> export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true
>>
>> ./esbox $XULOPTS "$@"
>>
>>
>>
>> user at ttelmtux:~$ dpkg -l xul*
>> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
>> |
>> Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
>> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
>> ||/ Name Version Description
>>
>> +++-======================================-======================================-============================================================================================
>> un xulrunner <none> (no description available)
>> rc xulrunner-1.9 1.9.0.14+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.0 XUL + XPCOM
>> application runner
>> un xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support <none> (no description available)
>> ii xulrunner-1.9.1 1.9.1.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1 XUL + XPCOM
>> application runner
>> ii xulrunner-1.9.1-gnome-support 1.9.1.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1 Support
>> for GNOME in xulrunner-1.9.1 applications
>>
>>
>>
>> user at ttelmtux:~$ sudo apt-get install xulrunner
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
>> required:
>> gcj-4.3-base libgcj9-0 libgcj-bc libswt-gtk-3.5-jni
>> libaccess-bridge-java-jni libaccess-bridge-java icedtea-6-jre-cacao
>> gcj-4.4-jre-lib libgcj10 gij-4.3 ant-optional-gcj ant
>> gcj-4.4-base libequinox-osgi-java default-jre libgcj-common
>> libjaxp1.3-java openjdk-6-jre-headless tzdata-java openjdk-6-jre
>> libjline-java openjdk-6-jre-lib libgcj9-jar
>> libxerces2-java gcj-4.4-jre-headless rhino default-jre-headless
>> libswt-gtk-3.5-java ca-certificates-java ant-gcj ant-optional
>> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
>> The following extra packages will be installed:
>> libmozjs0d libxul-common libxul0d
>> Suggested packages:
>> xulrunner-gnome-support
>> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>> libmozjs0d libxul-common libxul0d xulrunner
>> 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>> Need to get 7,565kB of archives.
>> After this operation, 23.9MB of additional disk space will be used.
>> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
>> Get:1 http://mirror.ovh.net karmic/universe libmozjs0d
>> 1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 [378kB]
>> Get:2 http://mirror.ovh.net karmic/universe libxul-common
>> 1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 [1,173kB]
>> Get:3 http://mirror.ovh.net karmic/universe libxul0d
>> 1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 [5,728kB]
>> Get:4 http://mirror.ovh.net karmic/universe xulrunner
>> 1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 [286kB]
>> Fetched 7,565kB in 6s (1,087kB/s)
>> Selecting previously deselected package libmozjs0d.
>> (Reading database ... 275390 files and directories currently installed.)
>> Unpacking libmozjs0d (from
>> .../libmozjs0d_1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
>> Selecting previously deselected package libxul-common.
>> Unpacking libxul-common (from
>> .../libxul-common_1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
>> Selecting previously deselected package libxul0d.
>> Unpacking libxul0d (from
>> .../libxul0d_1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
>> Selecting previously deselected package xulrunner.
>> Unpacking xulrunner (from
>> .../xulrunner_1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
>> Setting up libmozjs0d (1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1) ...
>>
>> Setting up libxul-common (1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1) ...
>> Setting up libxul0d (1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1) ...
>>
>> Setting up xulrunner (1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1) ...
>>
>> Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
>> ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:56 PM, <Ed.Swartz at nokia.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> After following the instructions for installing from the Product-Archives
>>> (http://esbox.garage.maemo.org/2nd_edition/installation_product.html) on
>>> Ubuntu 9.10, I am unable to start Esbox.
>>>
>>> Executing esbox displays the workspace confirmation window. After
>>> acknowledgement, I see the Esbox splash screen displaying 'Loading
>>> Workbench'. But soon after that I get a blank window (attached).
>>> I did set the GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS variable and still no go.
>>>
>>>  [[ejs]] This error is different, unfortunately.   The startup screen
>>> for a new workspace uses a web browser component that depends on Mozilla's
>>> xulrunner.  In newer Linux releases, this xulrunner is 1.19 and incompatible
>>> with Eclipse.  You can apt-get install xulrunner to get a compatible version
>>> (1.18).  The latest integration releases should have an "esbox.sh" script
>>> inside which will find and use that version and work around this issue, as
>>> well as the GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS one.
>>>
>>>  Hope this works!
>>>
>>>  -- Ed
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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