#986882 firefox-esr armhf: always fails to start with Error: eval: #() is not a valid R5RS form. use '#() instead

Package:
uim
Source:
uim
Description:
Universal Input Method - main binary package
Submitter:
Ryutaroh Matsumoto
Date:
2025-08-17 17:49:23 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#986882#5
Date:
2021-04-13 12:41:27 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

On freshly installed Debian bullseye armhf, firefox-esr does not start at all
with the following error:

rm -rf .mozilla
MOZILLA_DISABLE_PLUGINS=1 firefox-esr
Error: eval: #() is not a valid R5RS form. use '#() instead

Best regards, Ryutaroh Matsumoto
#986882#10
Date:
2021-04-14 00:42:33 UTC
From:
To:
Firefox-ESR always fails to start also in a  QEMU armhf VM
with linux-image-armmp-lpae/bullseye.
It seems that firefox-esr is completely unavailable on Debian Bullseye armhf,
while few people would use firefox on 32-bit architectures...

Best regards, Ryutaroh Matsumoto
#986882#15
Date:
2021-04-14 01:08:23 UTC
From:
To:
I found that
GTK_IM_MODULE=uim firefox-esr
causes the reported start-up failure, while
GTK_IM_MODULE=xim firefox-esr
allows the normal start-up of firefox-esr.
So I reassign this to uim.
The same symptom is also observed with firefox/sid.

See also
https://wiki.matoken.org/linux/issue
http://hidenosuke.org/diary/?date=20080213

Best regards, Ryutaroh Matsumoto
#986882#30
Date:
2021-09-17 06:49:11 UTC
From:
To:
I was having the same issue after installing a (maybe two?) Japanese
Input Method(s).
Then I found this article https://wiki.matoken.org/linux/issue
From the terminal window, I was able to start up the Firefox by typing:
GTK_IM_MODULE=xim /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr

I have no idea why the input method selection affect Firefox.

Kuro
#986882#35
Date:
2021-09-17 15:31:57 UTC
From:
To:
Please disregard my earlier message.
I found out that this information
was already in the bug record.
It wasn't shown to me at the time I sent
my message, for some reason.

Kuro