[27510] in Athena Bugs
Re: Debathena: thunderbird
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Quentin Smith)
Thu Oct 7 15:46:25 2010
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 15:46:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Quentin Smith <quentin@mit.edu>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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Mmkay. Professor Ward complained to me about it... it seems like this is a
pretty important bug.
--Quentin
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> 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.)
>
>
