Bug 25914 – mozilla-firebird 0.6-rc6 does nothing.

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jonathan Ross 2003-08-04 15:17:42 UTC]

it installed and built fine, But running the app does nothing. Just exists after
a second.
There is nothing in syslog, or any other log I can find.
I ran an strace on it, it looks like it forks about 15 processes, all of which
do nothing then exit.

Quite a long build time for an app that does 1 "nop" and exits.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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[Comment 1 Steve Romanow 2003-08-04 21:58:59 UTC]

ditto.

tried rebuilding, hasnt finished yet.

tried executing several of the scripts in /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird directly with no joy.

[Comment 2 Brad Laue (RETIRED) 2003-08-05 07:08:23 UTC]

Well, if I can get you guys to emerge sync, you'll notice that -r6 is no longer present in the tree - please verify with the latest stable version and give some environmental info - 'emerge info' for starters.

Thanks

[Comment 3 Steve Romanow 2003-08-06 21:12:48 UTC]

emerging mozilla-firebird 0.6.1 fixed and all works now.  For kicks, I also unmerged mozilla-1.4 before reinstalling firebird.

let me know if you still want that 'emerge info'

[Comment 4 TommyDrum 2003-11-11 15:06:26 UTC]

Having installed mozilla-firebird 0.6.1, and worked fine. But after trying
to install the smoothwheel plugin from mozdev.org , with root privileges,
firebird doesn't start for other users than root; in the first emerge it
just returned a bash prompt ,while ps aux showed it was loaded; killed, unmerged;
in the second emerge, it seems not to be able to find libsystem-pref.so;
killed, unmerged; in the third merge it had same effects, I unmerged and
manually removed all directories left at /usr/bin/MozillaFirebird (chrome,
components,defaults), then re -emerged firebird, and now working. Needless
to say I will remerge Firebird only if plugins are really needed (and things
go wrong), or if someone wants more info: please state the type of info needed
in that case.

[Comment 5 Geoff Thorpe 2004-02-04 07:36:28 UTC]

I was about to submit a bug-report about missing dependencies for mozilla-firebird when I found this one already open. The reason (if you've been seeing what I saw) for the apparently dead mozilla is the lack of nspr. If you run from a console, you'll notice the failure to open various shared-libs.

The problem seems to be that the mozilla-firebird ebuild doesn't have any dependency on nspr, it would make sense to fix this so that nspr is just dragged in automatically by emerge. BTW: I'm running mozilla-firebird-0.7 and am up-to-date portage-wise AFAICT. Is anyone on here able to put such a change in place?

[Comment 6 Brad Laue (RETIRED) 2004-02-15 09:40:56 UTC]

Issue #1 has been resolved with newer versions of thunderbird

Issue #2 (firebird missing libs) has been resolved with an addition to env.d.