320675 - Thunderbird aborts on startup, libstdc++.so.5 not found on Fedora Core 4

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 259888

(Thunderbird :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[sherwood botsford]

User-Agent:       Opera/8.51 (X11; Linux i686; U; en)
Build Identifier:  thunderbird-1.0.7.tar.gz & thunderbird-1.5rc1.tar.gz

Possibly a new component in bug reporting:  This is a bug about the
runtime environment, but there is no category for that.


This is probably a function of the FC 4 release instead of a thunderbird problem, but since FC is a popular version, some form of fixit should be addressed on the web site.

Starting thunderbird on a vanilla FC4 install 
results in the following message.

# thunderbird
/opt/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This affects current stable release 1.07 and 1.5 release candidate 1.

Curiously, I've got similar named libraries for 4 and for 6.
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.0.2/libsupc++.a
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.0.2/libstdc++.a
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.0.2/libstdc++.so
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.7
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6

Go figure. 

The usual trick of simlinking ...5 to ...6 doesn't work.  
Then there are a bunch ofsymbols it can't find. 
That list provided on request.

Note:  This version worked fine on my RH9 install.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.thunderbird
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
posted above.

Expected Results:  
started thunderbird.

I suspect one of the following:
A:  FC 4 has a bug in it's install, so that either a library or a link is
missing.
B:  There was an error I didn't catch in my install.

If other users find this problem, posting a workaround as part of the FAQ is in order.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Installing this RPM should fix it: http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1981061/com/compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.fc4.i386.rpm.html

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 259888 ***