[27509] in Athena Bugs
Re: Debathena: thunderbird
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Thu Oct 7 15:34:54 2010
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 15:34:51 -0400
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To: Quentin Smith <quentin@mit.edu>
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Hi Quentin,
We're tracking this in Trac (http://debathena.mit.edu/trac/ticket/709).
The issue is programmatically determining the correct path for the thunderbird configuration file; nobody has had time to work on it yet.
-Jon
On Oct 7, 2010, at 3:28 PM, sipb0@MIT.EDU wrote:
> 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.)
