Thunderbird closes upon Reply

BroX · 09-22-2004, 04:45 AM

Hi all,

yesterday I upgraded Thunderbird to 0.8, but now whenever I want to reply to a message, thunderbird simply closes. I installed just as I did before: remove the old thunderbird tree, also removed the chrome directory in my profile. As suggested on the Thunderbird page, the first time I ran thunderbird as root, but that didn't help either.

Anybody similar behaviour and/or solution?

Cheers, Leon.

Cedrik · 09-22-2004, 04:54 AM

Does it work when running it as root ?

BroX · 09-22-2004, 06:20 AM

Cedrik,

No such problem when running as root.
What does that tell me?

EDIT: Actually, same happens when composing a message (as user)

Cedrik · 09-22-2004, 08:42 AM

That just tell you there are permissions problem

Where is the Thunderbird directory ?

BroX · 09-22-2004, 09:09 AM

I installed it the same way as usual:

- as root, copy the tar ball to /usr/local/
- cd to /usr/local/
- rm -rf the old thunderbird tree
- untar the new version

The permissions are currently
755 for thunderbird directory and the files it contains, except libsoftokn3.chk and components.ini which have 644.

sio · 09-22-2004, 09:33 AM

you did it as root. So as the instructions say, I believe, you need to make the first time you run the program be root, not user, so that it can setup some defaults something or nothers. If user has permissions to /usr/local then do the same steps above as a user. Should work out fine. If not, do the same steps as root but make the first time you run it be root and not a user. See what happens

Cedrik · 09-22-2004, 10:23 AM

You could search the files that have root-only read permissions like 0700 and 0600.

Code:

find /usr/local/<thunder dir> -uid 0 -perm 0600
find /usr/local/<thunder dir> -uid 0 -perm 0700

#and to set them accordingly :

find /usr/local/<thunder dir> -uid 0 -perm 0600 -exec chmod 0644 "{}" \;
find /usr/local/<thunder dir> -uid 0 -perm 0700 -exec chmod 0755 "{}" \;

BroX · 09-22-2004, 10:49 AM

I tried running TB as root first, but that didn't make a difference.

Quote:

Originally posted by Cedrik
You could search the files that have root-only read permissions like 0700 and 0600.

Code:

find /usr/local/<thunder dir> -uid 0 -perm 0600 find /usr/local/<thunder dir> -uid 0 -perm 0700

Doesn't find anything. But shouldn't I perform the 'find' recursively?

sio · 09-22-2004, 11:40 AM

as a user untar it in your home directory, startit up and see if the problem still occurs, if it does id look at maybe submitting a bug report or something, if it doesn't.... well i dunno, id still look at maybe submitting a bug report

BroX · 09-23-2004, 02:06 AM

When I run TB from console, I get the following error when trying to compose:

Code:

leon@leon-fyg:~$ thunderbird 
INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not get the JVM manager
System error?:: Success
leon@leon-fyg:~$

Anyone an idea what the JVM manager is??

I'll untar it in a user directory and see what that brings...

BroX · 09-23-2004, 06:21 AM

Same behaviour when I untar TB in my home directory, so it's not simply a permissions thing, right?

BroX · 09-23-2004, 07:17 AM

Found some old bug reports on the subject, and another person getting the same error with the latest build when opening a message:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=223600#c33
It appears that TB is looking for a Java plugin. Haven't tried to get rid of that yet. Will post back when I have.

Cedrik · 09-23-2004, 07:21 AM

As a note, 'find' works recursivly by default.

Have you 'j2sdk' package installed ? What is your output with :
echo $PATH

BroX · 09-23-2004, 07:30 AM

Cedrik,

yes, I have j2sdk installed

Code:

leon@leon-fyg:~$ lspkg j2sdk
j2sdk-1_4_2_04-i586-3
leon@leon-fyg:~$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/java/bin:/usr/lib/java/jre/bin:/usr/lib/qt/bin:/usr/share/texmf/bin:.:/home/leon/bin:/sbin:/home/leon/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/kde/bin
leon@leon-fyg:~$

Cedrik · 09-23-2004, 07:41 AM

Try to copy or link the file :
/usr/lib/j2sdk1.4.2_04/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so

in your TB plugins dir