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. -- Rex
