I got a question from reader David B., who writes:<\/p>\n
I’m running 64-bit OpenSuSE 10.3 on an Opteron 185 system. On Saturday, Thunderbird was working just fine in my normal user login. I ran the OpenSuSE Updater which updated Thunderbird to v2.0.0.12, but didn’t try launching it before shutting the system down.<\/em><\/p>\n Booting up on Sunday, Thunderbird now fails to load in my normal user login. If I type thunderbird at a prompt, the error message starts, If I’m logged in as root and type thunderbird at a prompt, it launches normally. Doesn’t that seem to indicate a Permissions issue?<\/em><\/p>\n Thanks for any suggestions about how to get my Thunderbird email working again.<\/em><\/p>\n I posted the David’s email (along with a suggestion to try a different, stand-alone instance of Thunderbird) right away in hopes that it would generate some feedback, since I was unable to look into it right away.<\/p>\n However, David managed to solve his own problem very quickly, and was kind enough to pass the results back in contribution to the readership. Thanks, David! Here’s a snippet from his follow-up:<\/p>\n Yes, I did download a copy of Thunderbird straight from the Mozilla servers, rather than the OpenSuSE Update site. I was getting the same errors when trying to run it as a normal user. I even tried downloading and running an older version of Thunderbird, and saw the same error.<\/em><\/p>\n Today, while searching on the OpenSuSE Forums, I found this thread where other people saw gtk applications failing to run this weekend: Updating qtcurve-gtk2, as mentioned in the thread did the trick – and now Thunderbird runs just fine.<\/em><\/p>\n Thanks again David, and I’m glad the problem is solved. And to the rest of you, feel free to send me questions — or tips — that I can put out to the readership for help or general info. That’s what it’s all about… I got a question from reader David B., who writes: I’m running 64-bit OpenSuSE 10.3 on an Opteron 185 system. On Saturday, Thunderbird was working just fine in my normal user login. I ran the OpenSuSE Updater which updated Thunderbird…
\n“*** buffer overflow detected ***: \/usr\/lib64\/thunderbird\/thunderbird-bin terminated
\n======= Backtrace: =========
\n\/lib64\/libc.so.6(__chk_fail+0x2c)[0x2adb68b689ac]”<\/em><\/p>\n
\n(update: link depricated long ago) http:\/\/www.suseforums.net\/index.php?showtopic=49251<\/em><\/p>\n
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