Tor Browser silently fails to start if gtk2 is not installed

more annoyingly, this issue can only be diagnosed by running Browser/start-tor-browser --verbose. ./start-tor-browser.desktop and Browser/start-tor-browser simply output nothing.

I downloaded stock Firefox ESR 52.8.0 and ran it with -P non_default_profile -no-remote and it started with no issues. it comes with both "libmozgtk.so" and "gtk2/libmozgtk.so" which I assume helps.

added component::applications/tor browser owner::tbb-team priority::medium resolution::fixed severity::normal status::closed tbb-rbm type::defect labels

What is the output of ./Browser/start-tor-browser --verbose?

heh, I copied that and then forgot to actually paste it.

XPCOMGlueLoad error for file [snip]/Browser/libxul.so: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Couldn't load XPCOM.

It seems Firefox ESR 52.8.0 is built using gtk3, so this might explain why you don't have the same error.

With esr60, we are going to switch to gtk3 too.

Maybe we can improve the start-tor-browser script to check if all required libraries are available, and give an error if that's not the case.

Trac:
Keywords: N/A deleted, tbb-rbm added

based on the presence of both "libmozgtk.so" and "gtk2/libmozgtk.so" files, I assume that it supports both gtk2 and gtk3 but prefers gtk3 if installed. that might be important.

Replying to Hello71:

based on the presence of both "libmozgtk.so" and "gtk2/libmozgtk.so" files, I assume that it supports both gtk2 and gtk3 but prefers gtk3 if installed. that might be important.

Is that still an issue with the 8.0a9 release?

Trac:
Status: new to needs_information

no. now it depends on dbus-glib which I don't have, but that's the same as standard Firefox.

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

closed

moved to tpo/applications/tor-browser#26312 (closed)