186208 - Mozilla freezes shortly after mail startup

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 186204

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[beanladen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Sparc Solaris 8; en-US; rv:1.2.1)

After starting Mozilla, mailnews comes up (start mailnews at launch on),
then Mozilla freezes without starting a browser window.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start Mozilla
2. just watch...
3.

Actual Results:  
Mailnews/Mozilla freezes

Expected Results:  
bring navigator window after mailnews and work !


1.1 worked like a charm, rthis build is just unusable. Anyone out there
to donate the usual quality builds ?

Comment 1

[beanladen]

Argh ! The new 'advanced' bug report form is just dull and dumb as straw !!!
Platform is Solaris 8 on Sparc, version 1.2.1 (the one donated by Sun).

Comment 2

[Tuomo Tikkanen]

Have your read the README in the installation directory. It clearly states that
with this Sun supported version of Mozilla you need GTK libraries that are
compiled with Sun Forte compiler. Because you are able to start the Mozilla you
most probable just have GTK libraries that are compiled with Gnu gcc/g++
compilers. This kind of combination gives unpredictable results and leads for
example the kind of situation you now have faced. I had very similar problems,
before I read the README and used GTK libraries from the Netscape 7.0
distributioon of Sun.

PLEASE follow the instructions in the README file and get the Sun Forte compiled
GTK libraries one of the ways told in the file. After that just add to mozilla
startup script in Mozilla's installation directory following line:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/my/location/of/Forte/compiled/gtk/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH};
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

For example if you have Netscape 7.0 installed to directory /opt/NS/7.0 then the
above line would be something like:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/NS/7.0/dist/lib::${LD_LIBRARY_PATH};export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

This starts to be such a FAQ now-a-days that this had to be mentioned on the
release 1.2.1 download web page.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 186204 ***

Comment 4

[beanladen]

No. The /opt/sfw/lib path where the GTK libraries are located is provided by Sun 
with their operating system. We don't have anything on our systems that is gcc-
compiled. I even suspect that we don't have gcc at all.