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krizz
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 Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:40 pm Post subject: Mozilla Sunbird Issue... |
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Hi there,
I recently installed a new Gentoo system on my PC and in that system I use Mozilla stuff like Firefox and Thunderbird (I both compiled them, not binary).
As a calender app, I would like to use Sunbird; like I always did, but somehow the version is not supported...As you might know, Sunbird is only available as a binary installation. I installed the most recent version of Sunbird, namely:
| Code: | | app-office/mozilla-sunbird-bin-0.2.20041112 |
If I try to start it, the error is:
| Quote: | | Any old extensions that you have installed are disabled |
And that's it.
My Mozilla and Firefox versions are:
| Code: | net-www/mozilla-firefox-1.0_pre-r2
net-www/mozilla-1.7.3 |
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BlackEdder
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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I can only hop in and say that mine work 
you might try a
| Code: | | rm -rf ~/.mozilla/sunbird |
to check if that helps (you will loose all sunbird settings) |
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krizz
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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| BlackEdder wrote: | you might try a
| Code: | | rm -rf ~/.mozilla/sunbird |
to check if that helps (you will loose all sunbird settings) |
I tried that earlier and it didn't work... |
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Tuna
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 12:20 pm Post subject: |
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same here. additionally some verbose infomation alogn with 100% cpu | Code: | No running windows found
*** Registering -calendar handler.
*** Registering text/calendar handler.
*** Registering webcal protocol handler.
*** Registering -calendar handler.
*** Registering text/calendar handler.
*** Registering webcal protocol handler.
*** nsExtensionManager::_disableObsoleteExtensions - failure, catching exception so finalize window can close
*** loading the extensions datasource
*** Registering -calendar handler.
*** Registering text/calendar handler.
*** Registering webcal protocol handler.
*** loading the extensions datasource
*** Registering -calendar handler.
*** Registering text/calendar handler.
*** Registering webcal protocol handler.
*** loading the extensions datasource
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pjp
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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Moved from Other Things Gentoo.
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bccomm
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| Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 4:00 am Post subject: |
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The binary release from the Mozilla foundation requires that you run it with the global directory writable the first time.
In other words, run it once as root (it should start up), then you can use it as a normal user.
| Code: | % su
password:
# source /etc/profile
topd0g .mozilla # xauth generate :0
topd0g .mozilla # sunbird
No running windows found
*** Registering -calendar handler.
*** Registering text/calendar handler.
*** Registering webcal protocol handler.
*** Registering -calendar handler.
*** Registering text/calendar handler.
*** Registering webcal protocol handler.
*** nsExtensionManager::_disableObsoleteExtensions - failure, catching exception so finalize window can close
*** loading the extensions datasource
*** Registering -calendar handler.
*** Registering text/calendar handler.
*** Registering webcal protocol handler.
*** loading the extensions datasource
topd0g .mozilla # exit
% sunbird |
Tell me if this works or not (it did for me ).
EDIT: Ok, I figured out why this works. Normally, the chrome must be built globally and some other miscellany initialized for all Mozilla-related binary releases. For example, if you look at the ebuild for mozilla-firefox-bin, it shows this:
| Code: | # Normally firefox-bin-0.9 must be run as root once before it can
# be run as a normal user. Drop in some initialized files to
# avoid this.
einfo "Extracting firefox-bin-${PV} initialization files"
tar xjpf ${FILESDIR}/firefox-bin-0.9-init.tar.bz2 -C ${D}/opt/firefox |
So, to work around a, IMHO, somewhat weird configuration management system, you must either 1) use the source, Luke (messy), 2) run it once as root (inelegant), or 3) have someone else run it as root and give you the initialized files (this is what the firefox binary does...still inelegant). But then again, the Mozilla build system isn't that elegant to begin with, so this should come as no suprise. BTW, this is not limited to *nix. A tightly secured Windows system *choke*choke* will do the same thing if one were to simply unzip the build in C:\Program Files\Mozilla as an Administrator and then run it as a user. without admin prvilages. The only workaround would be to run the entire binary tree from the users home directory.
I first ran into this problem when I was using NetBSD, where, at the end of building firefox, pkgsrc told me that I needed to run it as root once. The Gentoo developers did a good job of hiding this gotcha, IMO.
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tomaw
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That works for me, thanks!
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Tuna
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| perfectly.. nice catch. |
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drakos7
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| Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 2:57 am Post subject: |
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| Excellent! Not the best workaround but I'll take it. |
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remi2402
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| Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2004 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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works for me too thanks
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imrambi
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| Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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I'm getting the following error, even running as root
| Code: | No running windows found
/usr/bin/sunbird: line 88: 9649 Segmentation fault $mozbin "$@"
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prosario_2000
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| Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm getting imrambi's error too. Could it be because of a GTk2 upgrade? |
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PieterB
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| Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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I don't know but since my last upgrade sunbird (previous build) doesn't work AND bittornado doesn't work anymore too.
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imrambi
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| I've tried compiling from source. I can get the main windows, but a new task or anything else freezes the app. That was after I applied a patch due to gtk2.18 or something like that. Aggrevating, I was starting to use sunbird heavily. |
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stkaplan
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| Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 2:12 am Post subject: |
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| I'm getting the same error. I'm using GTK 2.6.1. I tried installing an older version of GTK, with no difference. |
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Diavolo
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| Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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| imrambi wrote: | I'm getting the following error, even running as root
| Code: | No running windows found
/usr/bin/sunbird: line 88: 9649 Segmentation fault $mozbin "$@"
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Same Problem here. Any solution?  |
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Archangel1
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| Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 11:57 am Post subject: |
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Yep, me too...
The previous verson of Sunbird breaks with the same thing, so I guess it's from some external source - maybe a version of gtk as has been suggested?
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taiwan
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| Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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I have the same error to :
laradji@localhost ~ $ sunbird
No running windows found
/usr/bin/sunbird: line 88: 23389 Erreur de segmentation $mozbin "$@"
laradji@localhost ~ $ |
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GoofballJM1
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| Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 5:46 am Post subject: |
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Hmmm is it something with that release? I started using it a week ago, and it was great. I love it! But I am getting the same error. Has anyone submitted this to mozilla 
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imrambi
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| Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes, there is a patch because it has to do with truetype, (I think that is the cause). You will have to build the system from CVS after the patch. Hopefully it will be fixed in the next release. |
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Diavolo
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| Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 11:42 am Post subject: |
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| Sunbird 0.2 has been released? Is there an ebuild or when will it be available in Portage? |
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Diavolo
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| Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Is there no way to use Sunbird with Gentoo at the moment? Please help... |
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Diavolo
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GoofballJM1
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| Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 6:47 am Post subject: |
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My hunch is it has to do something with GTK2. It worked until I upgraded to version 2.6 last week. 
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