Thunderbird & Spellcheck

carlosinfl · 05-01-2006, 04:34 PM

I have Mozilla-Thunderbird installed 1.0.7 and I have a Spell-Check option when I send email however when I select that "spell check" option, it has no suggestions when clearly there are corrections to be made.

What am I missing?

http://img348.imageshack.us/img348/8...llcheck1pg.png

David the H. · 05-01-2006, 04:55 PM

I had the exact same thing happen. The problem turned out to be that I didn't have execute permission for the necessary dictionary files.

Unfortunately, I can't remember now exactly which folder I changed to get it back. I think it was /usr/lib/thunderbird, but it could have been /usr/share/thunderbird or /var/lib/thunderbird. Whichever it is though, just make sure your user has execute permissions and the problem should go away.

Brian1 · 05-01-2006, 06:16 PM

Do you have a spell check extension installed. Remove it and see if that works.

Brian1

carlosinfl · 05-02-2006, 09:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian1

Do you have a spell check extension installed. Remove it and see if that works.

Brian1

I don't think I have this extension. How do I verify this?

carlosinfl · 05-02-2006, 12:12 PM

...anyone?

David the H. · 05-02-2006, 12:28 PM

Simply check tools>>extensions to see what you have installed. If you didn't install it yourself, you probably don't have it.

I still think it's a permissions problem though, because the exact same thing happened to me. Examine the permissions on the directories I mentioned above, and give yourself executable access if they don't have it already. I'm pretty sure that will take care of the problem.

carlosinfl · 05-02-2006, 01:21 PM

Well lets start with Davids permission theory...

Here is one dir I found but have no clue what to look for...

Code:

cwilliams@cwilliams:/usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird$ ls -la
total 3724
drwxr-xr-x   7 root root   4096 2006-05-01 10:21 .
drwxr-xr-x 103 root root  28672 2006-05-02 07:53 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 2006-05-01 10:21 chrome
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   8192 2006-05-01 10:21 components
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     43 2006-05-01 10:21 components.ini -> /var/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/components.ini
drwxr-xr-x   8 root root   4096 2006-05-01 10:21 defaults
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     41 2006-05-01 10:21 defaults.ini -> /var/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/defaults.ini
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 2006-05-01 10:21 extensions
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 2006-05-01 10:21 greprefs
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     37 2006-05-01 10:21 icons -> ../../share/mozilla-thunderbird/icons
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 138248 2005-10-17 19:09 libgkgfx.so
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 107368 2005-10-17 19:09 libgtkembedmoz.so
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  14200 2005-10-17 19:09 libgtkxtbin.so
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 170752 2005-10-17 19:09 libldap50.so
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 524380 2005-10-17 19:09 libmozjs.so
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 203356 2005-10-17 19:09 libnspr4.so
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 445572 2005-10-17 19:09 libnss3.so
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 225916 2005-10-17 19:09 libnssckbi.so
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  14828 2005-10-17 19:09 libplc4.so
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   8760 2005-10-17 19:09 libplds4.so
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  14532 2005-10-17 19:09 libprldap50.so
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 144408 2005-10-17 19:09 libsmime3.so
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 457568 2005-10-17 19:09 libsoftokn3.so
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 136180 2005-10-17 19:09 libssl3.so
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  45796 2005-10-17 19:09 libxlibrgb.so
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 109892 2005-10-17 19:09 libxpcom_compat.so
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 760552 2005-10-17 19:09 libxpcom.so
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   8292 2005-10-17 19:09 libxpistub.so
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  65900 2005-10-17 19:09 mozilla-thunderbird-bin
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  10332 2005-10-17 19:09 mozilla-thunderbird-xremote-client
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  11212 2005-10-17 19:09 regchrome
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  22368 2005-10-17 19:09 regxpcom
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     35 2006-05-01 10:21 res -> ../../share/mozilla-thunderbird/res
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  10989 2005-10-17 18:07 run-mozilla.sh
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     44 2006-05-01 10:21 startup-hooks.d -> /var/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/startup-hooks.d

Another dir you suggested...

Code:

cwilliams@cwilliams:/usr/share/mozilla-thunderbird$ ls
chrome  icons  parts  res

carlosinfl · 05-02-2006, 01:33 PM

Ahhh - Here is the Myspell dir this URL

Code:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      28 2006-05-01 10:21 myspell -> ../../../share/myspell/dicts

What do you think?

bosewicht · 05-02-2006, 03:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by David the H.

I had the exact same thing happen. The problem turned out to be that I didn't have execute permission for the necessary dictionary files. .......just make sure your user has execute permissions and the problem should go away.

Look at the permissions on the files

carlosinfl · 05-02-2006, 03:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bosewicht

Look at the permissions on the files

I am looking - root and the root group have 777 on that file directory.