Rex Dieter wrote:
Bill McGonigle wrote:
> Just getting a new F11 x86_64 machine going, and every time I try to
> click 'Install' in Thunderbird to install a new Add-On, I get a segfault.
>
> It crashes at:
> cache_glob_node_lookup_suffix
>
> and doing some googling, I found an old (c. 2006) FreeBSD discussion
> about this, and then it was isolated to folks using KDE and the
> environment variable:
>
> XDG_DATA_DIRS
>
> not being set to include gnome. So, I added '/usr/share/gnome' to the
> end of it, and voila, no more crashes.
>
> The claim at the time was that KDE was duplicating one of the path
> entries instead of adding gnome.
>
> So, I have a fix/workaround in hand, but this should probably be fixed
> more globally. I have no idea what to file a bug on, though, or where
> this should get set. Or perhaps there's some package that should have
> been installed but wasn't?
>
> I don't have this problem on i386, though that's on different hardware.
This is a xulrunner/thunderbird bug, if anything. KDE's use of
XDG_DATA_DIRS is correct.
Interesting, I just did an Addon, no crash, on F-11. What addon(s) are
you trying?
-- Rex