Bigbro's foray into the scary world of blogging
I'm making an effort to use my eeePC with a 3G modem as my work platform between home and the office. It's form factor is excellent, though I would prefer the 3G modem built in rather than dangling out a USB port. Oh well...
More seriously, Thunderbird (Work tab | e-mail) was completely failing to run after I updated the software. Running it from the command line yielded a segfault:
/opt/thunderbird> ./thunderbird
./run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 4440 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
Apparently, this is a known issue that can be fixed one of two ways. Either remove the SCIM support (probably not an issue if you're only using Western character sets: sudo aptitude remove scim) or install the little known update pack eeepc-updatepack-20071126 using aptitude install eeepc-updatepack-20071126.
I chose the latter option and Thunderbird immediately sprang into life. For my next trick, I'd quite like to get Firefox 3 running.
posted at: 09:41 | path: /technical | permanent link to this entry
