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
