If I have x11-libs/gtk+-2.6.8 and try to start mozilla-thunderbird or mozilla-firefox the app will start, but there will be no window. If I check ps, both are running fine, I even looked with strace on thunderbird, and it was stuck in somekind of polling (I guess this is ok). If I emerege gtk+2.6.7 instead, both mozilla-firefox and mozilla-thunderbird starts and seams to work all right. There's no diff. if mozilla-* is compiled while 2.6.7 or 2.6.8 is installed, sometimes (like 2 of 3 times) it won't display any gui. I haven't tested them compiled with 2.6.8 but running with 2.6.7. I have moved ~/.thunderbird/ and ~/.mozilla/ but that didn't help eihter. I don't think this bug affects x86 as my laptop works. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. $ thunderbird 2. $ ps aux|grep thunderbird Actual Results: Some thunderbird-bin processes but no gui Expected Results: A thunderbird gui ;-) # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl dvd emboss encode esd fam foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls opengl pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl tcpd tetex tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb userlocales xine xml xml2 xmms xpm xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
I get this too, in thunderbird and firefox. Probably an upstream bug, though... I usually 'killall thunderbird-bin' (or firefox-bin) until it starts up properly. The funny thing is that thunderbird shows the password dialog, but not the main window... It gets the mail just fine as well, it just doesn't make the main window. Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-rc5-kthrt1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-rc5-kthrt1 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre9 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -fvisibility-inlines-hidden " DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/portage /usr/local/overlays/lila /usr/local/overlays/openoffice /usr/local/overlays/trunk" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X aalib alsa avi bash-completion berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bonobo boundschecking bzip2 caps cddb cdr crypt cups curl dbus directfb dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode flac foomaticdb fortran ggi gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal icq ieee1394 imagemagick imlib ipv6 jack java jikes jpeg junit kde kdeenablefinal ldap libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad maildir mozcalendar mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl oscar pcre pdflib perl pic png python quicktime readline samba scanner sdl slang snmp spell sqlite ssl svg sysfs tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales vorbis xine xinerama xml xml2 xpm xscreensaver xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS kaitou ~ # emerge -vp gtk+ These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] x11-libs/gtk+-2.6.8 -doc +jpeg -static +tiff 11,399 kB
The kill thing doesn't help me. I just emerged all gtk+ versions avaible in portage with no luck. I tested to go up to ~amd64 om gtk+, glib, pango and then reemerge mozilla-thunderbird but still the same problem. I didn't emerge firefox this time and it didn't start, but once gtk+-2.6.7 was reemerged firefox just started as it would, thunderbird didn't (lack of lib), but it's reemerging again. I am thinking of recompile everything in a clean chroot tomorrow, maybe it could tell me something.
Big fat ME TOO on x86. Same issue: thunderbird starts with no window, process runs fine (no spikes in utilization or anything), strace shows line after line of polling. When I move my .thunderbird directory, however, thunderbird segfaults on startup. Once it segfaulted, but still started a zero-size window (just a tiny square) that when resized into a real window, turned out to be an import wizard. Firefox runs just fine. My gtk+ version: 2.8.6. (not 2.6.8) For me this started after upgrading from thunderbird-1.0.7 to 1.0.7-r1, which happened several days after upgrading from gtk+-2.6.10 to gtk+-2.8.6. Firefox was compiled against gtk+-2.6.x. This only happens on this particular x86 box. My other box is fine. The only difference between the two is that the problem box is hardened. Configuration and packages are almost identical. I've recompiled thunderbird with USE="debug" and captured the output. There is an undefined symbol error that only shows up with debug enabled. I'll attach the outputs below from both a run against my good .thunderbird directory and one with no .thunderbird directory. FWIW... Obligatory emerge info: Portage 2.0.53_rc6 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.13-gentoo-r4-1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r4-1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre9 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fstack-protector" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fstack-protector" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig collision-protect distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org/" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex 3dnowext 3ds X X509 Xaw3d a52 aac aalib aavm aim alsa apache2 arts artworkextra audiofile avi bcmath berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bmp bonobo bootsplash browserplugin bzip2 bzlib calendar canna cap caps cdb cddb cdparanoia cdr chroot cjk codecs cpdflib crypt cscope ctype cups curl curlwrappers dba dbx devfs26 dga dio djbfft dv dvd dvdr dvdread edl eds emboss encode erandom esd ethereal evo exif faac faad fam fame fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox flac flash flatfile font-server foomaticdb fortran freetype freewnn fs ftp gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint glibc-omitfp glitz gmp gnome gphoto2 gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal hardened hardenedphp iconv icq imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 immqt-bc innodb jabber java javascript jbig jce jit joystick jpeg jpeg2k kde ladcca lcms ldap libcaca libg++ libgda libwww linuxthreads-tls live lzo lzw-tiff mad maildir mailwrapper matroska mcal memlimit mhash mikmod mime mjpeg mmap mmx mmx2 mmxext mng monkey mono motif mozdevelop mozilla moznoirc mozp3p mp3 mpeg mpeg4 mpi mplayer msn mysql mysqli nas ncurses netboot netcdf network nocardbus nocd nodrm nptl nvidia oci8 odbc offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oscar oss pam pcap pcntl pcre pda pdflib perl php physfs pic pie plotutils png pnp posix ppds prelude python qt quicktime readline real recode rtc samba sblive scanner sdl session sftplogging shared sharedmem simplexml slang smartcard sndfile soap sockets socks5 spamassassin speex spell spl sqlite sse ssl svg sysvipc szip tcpd tga theora tidy tiff tokenizer transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb uudeview vcd vhosts videos vim-with-x vorbis win32codecs wma123 wmf xine xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xosd xprint xscreensaver xsl xv xvid xvmc yahoo yv12 zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS
Created attachment 71597 [details] Run against existing .thunderbird directory
Created attachment 71598 [details] Run with no .thunderbird directory
Created attachment 71599 [details] Output from post-install section of emerge, with USE="debug"
I recompiled thunderbird with USE=debug and rerun thunderbid to see what happens. Logfiles can be found here: http://dev.azoff.se/thunderbird/ Hope this helps..
I found out a new thing today, if I try to start firefox or thunderbird in windowmaker it most likely it won't display any main window BUT if I try in plain X it will start everytime! So, it looks like it's a problem with >gtk+-2.6.7 and windowmaker and not the thunderbird itself.
Whith some help from dang in #gentoo-amd64 on freenode, I narrowed this down to be a issue of WindowMaker rather than gtk+ or mozilla-*. I also found out that there used to be a patch for this issue in 0.92 but it wasn't applied ok so it got removed. I have made a new patch[0] that works with bot CVS (from today) and the 0.92 version (no changes). If you think that this patch is ok, could it be reincluded again? Also, please review the patch as I am not sure if it cover all possible problems with this. Also there were some changes in the code from the patch used for 0.91 and I found another patch[1] that that person ported to the new 0.92 version. I tried to merge changes from both, but please look at it. [0] http://dev.azoff.se/wm-64bit+endian-fixes-cvs.patch [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.compw.window-managers.windowmaker.devel/749
This issue an the patch for 0.92 are also reported/available in bug #83927
well, same here on ppc. I had to reemerge thunderbird and had meanwhile upgraded to gtk+-2.8.8. So no thunderbird gui. Reverted back to gtk+-2.6.10 and rebuild thunderbird against it and the gui is back.
(In reply to comment #11) > well, same here on ppc. > I had to reemerge thunderbird and had meanwhile upgraded to gtk+-2.8.8. So no > thunderbird gui. Reverted back to gtk+-2.6.10 and rebuild thunderbird against > it and the gui is back. What WM are you using? WindowMaker?
> What WM are you using? WindowMaker? E17. So it is not a WindowMaker only problem.
Same problem on KDE-3.4.3 (gnome-2.10.2 is installed, too) # LC_ALL="C" thunderbird No running windows found GConf Error: Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0
(In reply to comment #0) I had this problem on a Hardened x86 box - not sometimes, it was consistently reproducible -and was able to fix it by setting gcc-3.3.6 from Hardened to Vanilla while emerging Thunderbird. there's also apparently a GCC 3.4.3 - 3.4.4 bug with hardened and SSP that may be relevant - #74457
(In reply to comment #15) > I had this problem on a Hardened x86 box - not sometimes, it was consistently > reproducible -and was able to fix it by setting gcc-3.3.6 from Hardened to > Vanilla while emerging Thunderbird. > > there's also apparently a GCC 3.4.3 - 3.4.4 bug with hardened and SSP that may > be relevant - #74457 I've had this problem consistently with mozilla-1.7.12-r3 on 3 ~x86 Hardened boxes. It is not an intermittant thing in my case; it fails to display any windows every time I killall mozilla-bin and run mozilla again. I tried building with all USE-flags disabled; no difference in behavior. However, building with i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-vanilla instead of i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6 (hardened) does fix it.
(In reply to comment #15) > I had this problem on a Hardened x86 box - not sometimes, it was consistently > reproducible -and was able to fix it by setting gcc-3.3.6 from Hardened to > Vanilla while emerging Thunderbird. The "x-modular" eclass has a check to prevent building xf86 input plugins (among other things) with the hardened toolchain. It emits the message "Do not emerge ${PN} without vanilla gcc specs!" and bails out. Perhaps mozilla could use a similar check?
Please test w/ an uptodate TB version (like 1.5.0.8) and reopen if you still have problems. Thanks.
