[26376] in Athena Bugs
sun4 9.3.18: mozilla
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew S Mendelson)
Fri Feb 25 16:50:19 2005
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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:59:01 -0500
From: Andrew S Mendelson <asmendel@mit.edu>
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System name: m12-182-2.mit.edu
Type and version: Sun-Blade-100 9.3.18
Display type: ifb
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: sawfish
What were you trying to do?
Run mozilla while already running the thunderbird mail reader
(thunderbird locker)
What's wrong:
Mozilla doesn't launch. If the command "mozilla" is typed at a
command prompt, the shell returns the message:
/usr/athena/lib/mozilla/mozilla-xremote-client: Error: Failed to send command: 509 internal error
What should have happened:
Mozilla should have launched successfully
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
There seems to be a problematic interaction between mozilla and
thunderbird on athena. If thunderbird is running and mozilla is not
running, the mozilla startup script thinks that a copy of mozilla is
running, and uses mozilla-xremote-client instead:
athena% mozilla
/usr/athena/lib/mozilla/mozilla-xremote-client: Error: Failed to send command: 509 internal error
one quick work around is to issue a (meaningless) option to the mozilla
command:
athena% mozilla -blah
(which opens a browser window)
I took a quick look at the script at /usr/athena/bin/mozilla, and it
seems that maybe mozilla-xremote-client behaves badly with
thunderbird? So maybe the problem needs to be referred back to the
mozilla developers (or a patch needs to be written)?
I don't know much about sh scripting, but is the case statement on
line 189 catching everything (rather than just profile options)?
This problem seems to exist on both sun and linux computers.
Regards,
Andrew Mendelson
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