[27508] in Athena Bugs
Debathena: thunderbird
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sipb0@mit.edu)
Thu Oct 7 15:29:00 2010
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 15:28:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: sipb0@mit.edu
Message-Id: <201010071928.o97JSvtp019696@outgoing.mit.edu>
To: bugs@mit.edu
Cc: quentin@mit.edu
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu
System name: EELAB77
Type: x86_64
Display type: ATI Technologies Inc Device 9488
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh (?)
Window manager: unknown
What were you trying to do?
Launch thunderbird (by running "thunderbird" from a shell)
What's wrong:
I get an error message saying "Failed to read the configuration
file. Please contact your system administrator.", and Thunderbird then
immediately exits. I appear to have an old ~/.thunderbird, probably
from running Thunderbird on Athena 9, but erasing that directory and
trying again results in the same error.
This appears to be because debathena.cfg is installed in
/usr/lib/thunderbird and thunderbird is looking for it in
/usr/lib/thunderbird-3.0.8. Moving it to the latter directory fixes
thunderbird.
What should have happened:
I should have seen the thunderbird UI.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
(This bug was submitted by quentin; I am using sipb0 to confirm it
isn't something screwy with my account.)
