MozillaFirebird problem

theonlymcc · Apprentice Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Posts: 274 Location: NC

If Thunderbird is running, I cannot run Firebird. I get this message

ventricle · Guru Joined: 04 Apr 2003 Posts: 305 Location: UK/Australia

I get the exact same thing from a fresh install! I am glad it is not just me.
It is also a pity you couldn't choose firebird with xft and gtk2 from ebuilds. This install is horrid!
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theonlymcc · Apprentice Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Posts: 274 Location: NC

Have you solved it? Have any idea why it happens?

ikshaar · Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 10:24 pm Post subject:

Not sure if it is related but I had similar problem with Mozilla because of the profile. It could not open Firebird if Mozilla was open.

May be worth checking which profile is used...
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pixie · Guru Joined: 29 Dec 2002 Posts: 305

The Firebird ebuild has both the gtk2 and moznoxft useflags.

theonlymcc · Apprentice Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Posts: 274 Location: NC

pixie · Guru Joined: 29 Dec 2002 Posts: 305

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man3/xft.3.html

TMiegel · n00b Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 36 Location: Deutschland

theonlymcc · Apprentice Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Posts: 274 Location: NC

1) xft isn't in my USE flags when I etcat -u mozilla-firebird
2) Can't install xft because I use Xfree 4.3.0-r3 which is blocked by xft. xft uses 4.3.0-r2. I understand that xft is incorporated into Xfree 4.3.0-r3.

luqas · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 7:42 pm Post subject:

I have the opposite problem. I can't start Thunderbird if Firebird is open. If I try to open Thunderbird with Firebird open it just tries to load then disappears and I can forget opening it again until I reboot.

pixie · Guru Joined: 29 Dec 2002 Posts: 305

mozilla-firebird has the useflag 'moznoxft' which you set if you don't want it to use xft.

gurke · Apprentice Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 260

lol, i also had firebird and thunderbird installed and couldnt start firebird, when thunderbird was running, but it worked the other way. i now uninstalled both. thanks for the info.

aerotux · n00b Joined: 22 Jan 2004 Posts: 20 Location: Argentina

c0bblers · Guru Joined: 28 Mar 2003 Posts: 403

Hi,
OK, I've managed to bodge-fix this problem. The problem seems to be the mozilla-xremote-client program. The /usr/bin/MozillaFirebird script first tries to open a new tab/window by running mozilla-xremote-client and then responds to the return value from this attempt or exits if the command is successful. With thunderbird running mozilla-xremote-client seems to return 3 when firebird isnt running, which causes the "Unable to command to running Mozilla Firebird instance" message and the script exit. I guess the mozilla-xremote-client program's getting confused, but I've not looked into how it detects a running firebird instance. In the mean time, a quick hack of the /usr/bin/MozillaFirebird script should do the trick...or as I like to see it, a desophistication ;-)

--- MozillaFirebird.orig 2004-01-14 21:07:36.000000000 +0000
+++ MozillaFirebird 2004-01-24 16:57:25.932350160 +0000
@@ -58,17 +58,9 @@
done
retval=$?

-if [[ $retval -eq 2 ]] ; then
- # No running windows found, so start a new instance
- ${fbpath}/MozillaFirebird "${args[@]}"
- retval=$?
-elif [[ $retval -eq 1 ]] ; then
- echo "Unable to connect to X server" >&2
-elif [[ $retval -eq 3 ]] ; then
- echo "Unable to send command to running Mozilla Firebird instance" >&2
-else
- echo "Unknown error $retval from mozilla-xremote-client" >&2
-fi
+# No running windows found, so start a new instance
+${fbpath}/MozillaFirebird "${args[@]}"
+retval=$?

exit $retval