| Summary: | mozilla-thunderbird-bin-1.0.7 won't start as non root user | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Rodrigo Severo <rodrigo> |
| Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WORKSFORME | ||
| Severity: | major | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Attachments: |
Run against existing .thunderbird directory
The strace file with the segmentation fault (strace -ff -tt -v -o...) |
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Description
Rodrigo Severo
2005-10-27 15:28:25 UTC
Created attachment 71596 [details]
Run against existing .thunderbird directory
Comment on attachment 71596 [details]
Run against existing .thunderbird directory
Sorry, wrong bug
please check permissions on $HOME/.thunderbird/* seems to me you have started it using sudo or root through su. If this is the case as root chown -R username:users /home/username to fix permissions on your entire user dir. Answering Comment #3: the problem isn't this. Just for certainty, I executed the chmod you suggested but nothing changed. I fixed the problem. Analysing a strace of thunderbird I saw that it had problems accessing some nscd files/directories. I started nscd and did the chmods nscd init script asked me to. After that thunderbird worked fine. As far as my personal problem matters, this bug can be closed. I am not closing it myself just in case someone wants to further investigate the reason that the unavailability of nscd affected thunderbird from mozilla-thunderbird-bin but not thunderbird from mozilla-thunderbird. Created attachment 73794 [details]
The strace file with the segmentation fault (strace -ff -tt -v -o...)
I said this bug could be closed. Well, I take it back :)
Thunderbird isn't starting again with the same symptons: it works as root but
not as a regular user.
Just for the sake of completude, I rechecked the permissions on
$HOME/.thunderbird/*. Everything is fine.
I made a strace of thunderbird as I did last time I had this problem. It was
through strace I found out the thunderbird was having problems with nscd.
Well, now the problems are elsewhere. Apparently it's having problems with a
getrlimit call:
11:31:37.765024 getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, {rlim_cur=1024, rlim_max=1024}) = 0
11:31:37.765208 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
11:31:37.765284 rt_sigaction(SIGSEGV, NULL, {0xb7978dd0, [], 0}, 8) = 0
The above lines are taken from the strace log I sent. What's happening? How can
I fix this?
Is this issue still present? Have you tried upgrading Thunderbird to 1.5.0.5 (released today)? I'm trying to clean up old bugs at the moment. If you're still having problems, please advise... otherwise I'll resolve this bug. Thanks, Stuart Longland (In reply to comment #6) > Is this issue still present? I really can't say. I'm not even using Thunderbird anymore. > Have you tried upgrading Thunderbird to 1.5.0.5 > (released today)? No. > I'm trying to clean up old bugs at the moment. If you're still having > problems, please advise... otherwise I'll resolve this bug. As far as I'm concerned, this bug can be closed. Okay... I'll resolve it WORKSFORME... if anyone strikes trouble, feel free to re-open the bug and I'll look into it. Appologies for the delay getting to this bug. (The mozilla herd has gone through quite a bit of termoil lately and things are only just settling down.) |
