[gentoo-user] FireFox and ThunderBIrd without themes and extentions

[gentoo-user] FireFox and ThunderBIrd without themes and extentions

[Daniel Iliev]

Hello, everyone


I had to reemerge FireFox and ThunderBird due to "emerge --depclean".
Both compiled without complains but the themes and extensions applets
are empty. I tried with recompiling gtk+-{1.2.10-r11, 2.8.19},
dev-libs/{nspr,nss}, enigmail and the mozillas. It didn't help.

Both clients seem to work OK with the above mentioned exception so TB 
has lost its connection even with enigmail. The download progress box 
shows and disappears very fast when I try to get a theme or an extension 
and that's all. If I use the old directory of ThunderBird it shows 
enigmail and the theme I used before but I can't neither use, nor 
uninstall them. It is all the same with FireFox.

Screen shots.
FireFox:

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/244/1152938467ov4.jpg
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/5206/1152938495yw7.jpg


ThunderBird with the new (empty) "~/.thunderbird"

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/2808/1152946612cn9.jpg
http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/6624/1152946624dg7.jpg

ThunderBird with the old "~/.thunderbird"

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/7296/1152945365ww7.jpg
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/6898/1152946034zr1.jpg


Does anyone know where the problem could be?



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Re: [gentoo-user] FireFox and ThunderBIrd without themes and extentions

[Richard Fish]

On 7/15/06, Daniel Iliev <danny@ilievnet.com> wrote:
> I had to reemerge FireFox and ThunderBird due to "emerge --depclean".
> Both compiled without complains but the themes and extensions applets
> are empty. I tried with recompiling gtk+-{1.2.10-r11, 2.8.19},
> dev-libs/{nspr,nss}, enigmail and the mozillas. It didn't help.

I don't have any idea what the problem is, but I would suggest to run
firefox/thunderbird from a terminal window so you can see any error
messages produced.

-Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] FireFox and ThunderBIrd without themes and extentions

[Daniel Iliev]

Richard Fish wrote:
> On 7/15/06, Daniel Iliev <danny@ilievnet.com> wrote:
>> I had to reemerge FireFox and ThunderBird due to "emerge --depclean".
>> Both compiled without complains but the themes and extensions applets
>> are empty. I tried with recompiling gtk+-{1.2.10-r11, 2.8.19},
>> dev-libs/{nspr,nss}, enigmail and the mozillas. It didn't help.
> 
> I don't have any idea what the problem is, but I would suggest to run
> firefox/thunderbird from a terminal window so you can see any error
> messages produced.
> 
> -Richard

Richard, thanks for your reply.

No, theres is nothing unusual in the terminal output. It just reads "No 
running windows found"
However there is output in the javascript console:
 >
 >Item Installed via directory addition to Install Location: app-global 
 >Item ID: inspector@mozilla.org, attempting to register...
 >
 >Item Installed/Upgraded at Install Location: app-global Item ID: 
 >inspector@mozilla.org, attempting to register...
 >... success, item is compatible
 >
 >Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80570019 
 >(NS_ERROR_XPC_CANT_CREATE_WN) [nsIJSCID.createInstance]"  nsresult: 
 >"0x80570019 (NS_ERROR_XPC_CANT_CREATE_WN)"  location: "JS frame :: 
 >file:///usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/components/nsExtensionManager.js :: 
 >openSafeFileOutputStream :: line 454"  data: no]
 >Source File: 
 >file:///usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/components/nsExtensionManager.js
 >Line: 454

This appears on every start. The error on line 454 appears also if I try 
to install a theme or an extension. Line 454 in nsExtensionManager.js reads:

".createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIFileOutputStream);" and its a 
part of this function:

 >
 >function openSafeFileOutputStream(file, modeFlags) {
 >  var fos = 
 >Components.classes["@mozilla.org/network/safe-file-output-stream;1"]
 > 
 >.createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIFileOutputStream);
 >  if (modeFlags === undefined)
 >    modeFlags = MODE_WRONLY | MODE_CREATE | MODE_TRUNCATE;
 >  if (!file.exists())
 >    file.create(nsILocalFile.NORMAL_FILE_TYPE, PERMS_FILE);
 >  fos.init(file, modeFlags, PERMS_FILE, 0);
 >  return fos;
 >}


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Re: [gentoo-user] FireFox and ThunderBIrd without themes and extentions

[Richard Fish]

On 7/17/06, Daniel Iliev <danny@ilievnet.com> wrote:
>
> This appears on every start. The error on line 454 appears also if I try
> to install a theme or an extension. Line 454 in nsExtensionManager.js reads:
>

Hmm, ok, so it looks like it is failing to create/open a file.  Maybe
due to permissions....

There are 2 things you can try.  First, take a look at your
environment for any mozilla variables, and make sure they are set
correctly, or try clearing them with unset:

env | grep MOZ

The second thing I can think of is to use strace to see what it is
failing to open.  First start firefox or mozilla.  Then use 'ps | grep
firefox'  to find out the process id.  Then run:

strace -e open,access -p <pid>

The try to open the Extensions dialog.  This should dump a lot of
system calls, and there will be quite a few that fail with ENOENT or
EEXIST.  But look carefully for anything that fails with EPERM

If don't see or recognize a problem, try posting the output of strace here.

-Richard
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