Michael A. Peters wrote: > > > On Thursday, December 20, 2007, at 12:31PM, "Mickey Bankhead" > <mickey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>I've recently installed F8 on my new Dell, and I've got a terrible >>annoying problem with Thunderbird... >> >>If I launch Thunderbird, it opens fine. Every time I click to open and >>read any e-mail message, I get this pop-up Gecko Crashed window, and >>Thunderbird crashed back to the X Desktop. >>I can fix the problem by yum erase thunderbird, then yum install >>thunderbird. It works for ONE time I load thunderbird. As soon as I >>close Thunderbird, the problem starts over, and I cannot click to >>open/read any e-mail message again until I yum erase thunderbird, and >>yum install thunderbird.....! > > Try nuking your thunderbird preferences. > I know that's not a proper fix, but I suspect it is an oddity in your > preferences that is causing it problems. > > Also - install the gdb and the thunderbird-debuginfo package and try to > get a backtrace - as that may help squash a bug. > > You should be able to start thunderbird from gdb, and get a backtrace when > it crashes. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > FWIW, if you install the Thunderbird from the Mozilla website /and/ the necessary compat-libstdc++ rpm the crash goes away (I've been having the exact same problem since moving to Fedora 8 and installing the Thunderbird rpm...should'a known better than to use the rpm)...I'm guessing that the version from Mozilla doesn't use the Gecko engine? Kevin Martin -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Gecko-crash-in-Thunderbird-F8-tp14444585p14736448.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
