Latest tor browser launcher broken on linux (CentOS 6.8)

tor-browser-linux64-8.0_en-US.tar.xz is broken on linux (centos-6.8). Launcher in tor-browser_en-US folder does not launch. Suspect some kind of symlink problem. PLEASE UPDATE SOON.

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Username: LinuxProbes

added TorBrowserTeam201809R component::applications/tor browser owner::tbb-team priority::medium reporter::LinuxProbes resolution::fixed severity::normal status::closed tbb-8.0-issues tbb-backported tbb-regression type::defect labels

CentOS 6.8 is tricky as it does not ship a GTK3 library by default (which is required by Firefox 60). The CentOS Firefox maintainers told me that they will ship a GTK3 library specifically for the Firefox 60 ESR they ship and we could use that as well then. You should get that required library once you install Firefox 60 ESR on your system. Does that solve your issue?

What output do you get if you run ./start-tor-browser.desktop --debug in your terminal (inside tor-browser_en-US)?

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Owner: N/A to tbb-team
Component: - Select a component to Applications/Tor Browser
Keywords: N/A deleted, tbb-regression, tbb-8.0-issues added
Summary: Latest tor browser launcher broken on linux to Latest tor browser launcher broken on linux (CentOS 6.8)
Cc: N/A to boklm
Status: new to needs_information

CentOS 6, with firefox-60.1.0-6.el6.centos.x86_64

After extending the LD_LIBRARY_PATH of tor-browser to include the libraries bundled with the FF package in CentOS, tor-browser does start and seems to work properly.

tor-browser_en-US/Browser/firefox, prepend LD_LIBRARY_PATH with the path where CentOS FF has its library bundle. On a 64bit System, this is:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib64/firefox/bundled/lib64/:$basedir/TorBrowser/Tor/"

So tor-browser should include a similar bundle of required resources.

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Username: tries

Could it be dangerous to privacy to include non TorBrowser libraries?

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Username: LinuxProbes

Replying to LinuxProbes:

Could it be dangerous to privacy to include non TorBrowser libraries?

I think including the Gtk3 library which CentOS 6 ships is not an issue.

I think we could ask Centos 6 users to install the firefox package, and in our wrapper script check if we are on Centos 6 and add /usr/lib64/firefox/bundled/lib64 to LD_LIBRARY_PATH in that case.

Replying to boklm:

I think we could ask Centos 6 users to install the firefox package, and in our wrapper script check if we are on Centos 6 and add /usr/lib64/firefox/bundled/lib64 to LD_LIBRARY_PATH in that case.

We could try that (we should take the architecture into account as well as this likely makes it necessary to add a different path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH).

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Status: needs_information to new

There is a patch for review in branch bug_27552_v2: https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/boklm/tor-browser-build.git/commit/?h=bug_27552_v2&id=7bc2f54142f0bfafbd72431425186a51b9bed900

I uploaded a build with this patch: https://people.torproject.org/~boklm/builds/bug_27552/tor-browser-linux64-8.5a1_en-US.tar.xz https://people.torproject.org/~boklm/builds/bug_27552/sha256sums-unsigned-build.txt https://people.torproject.org/~boklm/builds/bug_27552/sha256sums-unsigned-build.txt.asc

Could someone running CentOS 6 check that this build is working for them?

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Keywords: N/A deleted, TorBrowserTeam201809R added
Status: new to needs_review

I just downloaded the build from above comment (bug_27552/tor-browser-linux64-8.5a1_en-US.tar.xz) as a clean install (CentOS 6, 64bit). The tor-browser does start and works as expected.

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Username: tries

Okay, let's take it for the alpha. Looks good to me. Cherry-picked to master (commit a0420227e3f10f159a40b08a70cbb8c66f64c342)

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Status: needs_review to closed
Resolution: N/A to fixed
Keywords: N/A deleted, tbb-backport added

FWIW I heard from a user that this works on a 32bit machine as well.

The commit for this ticket (a0420227e3f10f159a40b08a70cbb8c66f64c342) should also fix #27857 (moved).

Fixed in 8.0.3 with commit af1a15c5047041c0d1f8b4cef2c4aa723a1c0021 on maint-8.0.

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Keywords: tbb-backport deleted, tbb-backported added

closed

mentioned in issue #27857 (moved)

moved to tpo/applications/tor-browser#27552 (closed)