[Lucid] Sunbird from repository 0.9 freezes on the desktop

[ingo]

Binary package hint: sunbird

Lucid-amd64, beta2:
Sunbird 0.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 (lucid) from repository installs, but upon starting the application the window freezes on the (GNOME) desktop. Cannot resize window, cannot configure, just kill it by Alt+F4

This is really annoying, as Sunbird is the only usable calendar application for Ubuntu, because Evolution does not remind on missed alarms. This makes Evolution calendar obsolete for me.

[ingo (ingo-steiner)]

Addition:

sunbird can be run as 'root' and works fine, but not as a normal user!

Output if sunbird is started from a x-term:

GConf-Fehler: Der Konfigurationsserver konnte nicht kontaktiert werden; mögliche Fehlerquellen sind, dass TCP/IP für ORBit nicht aktiviert ist oder auf Grund eines Systemabsturzes alte NFS-Sperren gesetzt sind. Unter http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ erhalten Sie weitere Informationen (Details – 1: Verbindung zur Sitzung konnte nicht abgerufen werden: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)

[ingo (ingo-steiner)]

What works in Lucid:

Debian-sid packages:

iceowl_1.0~b1+dfsg-3_amd64.deb

with dependencies:

calendar-timezones_1.0~b1+dfsg-3_amd64.deb
libsqlite3-0_3.6.23-1_amd64.deb

[ingo (ingo-steiner)]

Did further Tests:

the freeze happenes only, if there are alarms pending! So the root cause is the notification/alarm which is not displayed.

[ingo (ingo-steiner)]

It's a sound problem. As soon as sound for alarms is disabled, Sunbird works fine.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Sunbird is going to be removed from Lucid since upstream no longer supports it and we will also only provide lightning in Lucid and greater.

[ingo (ingo-steiner)]

> we will also only provide lightning in Lucid and greater

lightning in the repo is version 0.9 and NOT compatible with thunderbird 3.0.4, so status changed to confirmed

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Ingo, please see bug #532232
I also dont see anywhere in this bug that it is a problem with lightning-extension

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Marked as a duplicate of the above bug

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Removed the duplicate status since this bug was not about that. please follow the other bug for more info about the status of lightning