[wplug] Sunbird 0.7 is just a segfault

[Jerod Lycett]

I run it from the Ubuntu install, but back in Feisty I had it from the 
tar like you and it was running fine. So until October 18th I used the 
tars perfectly well and from then I just used what came with Gutsy.

Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> Using fully up-to-date Ubuntu, since March or April I have not been able 
> to make Sunbird work.  0.6 nightlies suddenly lost the ability to access 
> the internet, and it was fixed in 0.7. Any 0.6 from April onward and any 
> 0.7 (nightly or the release) just segfault as soon as I try to run 
> them.   They're not coming from packages, so it's not a packaging 
> error.  It's the tars from mozilla.org <http://mozilla.org>. 
> 
> I currently am using a Sunbird that I built from CVS in September.   I 
> checked Tinderbox (Mozilla's build-testing servers) before checking out, 
> and it was green (meaning no compile errors in their test environment).  
> And when I compiled it, ./configure and make both went fine.  Make 
> install, however, threw an error.  I commented out that part of the code 
> (autocompletion), and now I use that build.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced Sunbird just being one big segfault on 
> Ubuntu or any other distro?  How'd you make it work?
> 
> -- 
> Mackenzie Morgan
> Linux User #432169
> ACM Member #3445683
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