Since I've updated my thunderbird from 0.7.3-r1 to 0.8, it crashes again, if I want to write new mail or open a junk mail. There was a solution for the 0.7 version, because there was the problem too. But I cant't find it anymore (not in the forums, not on bugzilla and also not at google). It was about to delete two files in /usr/lib/MozillaThunderbird, perhaps someone knows about it? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge "=mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-0.7.3-r1" 2. emerge -avuD mozilla-thunderbird 3. try to write mail, or to open a junk mail Actual Results: it crashes with the following message: INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not get the JVM manager System error?:: Success Expected Results: Well, I should be able to write new mail, or to look into a junk-mail, not? [11:01:15]:[root@app]:[0]:[/] emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.6.8-gentoo-r4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distcc sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.inode.at/ ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/ http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d aalib acpi alsa apache2 apm audiofile avi bcmath bitmap-fonts bzlib cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl divx4linux dmx dvd dvdr dvdread encode esd faad flac flash flax foomaticdb ftp gd gif gimp gimpprint gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml icq imagemagick imlib jack java jikes joystick jpeg libg++ libwww linguas_de mad matroska mikmod mime ming mmx mng motif mpeg msn mysql ncurses nls nvidia oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl php png posix ppds python quicktime readline rplay samba scanner sdl session sharedmem simplexml slang sockets speex spell sse sse2 ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tga tiff truetype usb v4l v4l2 videos wmf wxwindows x86 xine xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xosd xpm xprint xsl xv xvid zlib"
btw, if I downgrade it again, it still crashes... and also if I unmerge and remerge it again...
Long shot but have you tired to remove -fomit-frame-pointer from your CFLAGS and also complie with -O2?
Hi Christian, no, I've not tried this, because all versions are running fine, if I delete the two files, which causes to crash thunderbird. Btw. i've (re-)merged, unmerged and updated thunderbird six times yesterday and I really dont want to merge it again six times. :) If you're really sure, that thunderbird works if I'll try that, then I'll try it. *g*
well, merging with not as restrictive CFLAGS doesnt change anything. Same error, same errormsg. Hey, there *was* definitly a solution for this. I'm not sure, if it was here on bugzilla, in the forums or on google, but I can't find it anymore. There only were two files to delete and it worked again! Is there nobody who knows which they are? :( I need to send some mails!
hmm... not much help here...
Hello guys, the two files in question are: components/libgkplugin.so components/plugin.xpt (normally in: /usr/lib/MozillaThunderbird) (if TB crashes everytime at startup, delete compreg.dat in your .thunderbird dir.) BTW, this is a very old bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=223600#c24 Cheers, Florian
Hey Florian, very much thanks! That was it!
Which part of that worked, removing the .xpt files or deleting compreg.dat? I'm unable to reproduce this unfortunately.
As I said before, deleting the two files... /usr/lib/ModzillaThunderbird/components/libgkplugin.so /usr/lib/ModzillaThunderbird/components/plugin.xpt ...does the job. Deleting of compreg.dat doesn't work for this bug. That only works for the other bug, which causes that no mails would be displayed after the update.
reopen later if problem re-occurs in latest versions.
