[27511] in Athena Bugs
Re: Debathena: thunderbird
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Wed Oct 13 10:50:45 2010
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:50:41 -0400
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To: Quentin Smith <quentin@mit.edu>
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This is now in testing, but unfortunately the "fix" involves disabling auto-configuration, since there's no good way to do this, and Mozilla is moving to a new method anyway. However, existing Thunderbird users should still be fine.
Barring any unforseen problems, I'd anticipate this being in production by next week.
If you could pass this information on to the professor, that would be helpful.
-Jon
On Oct 7, 2010, at 3:46 PM, Quentin Smith wrote:
> 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.)
>>
>>
