Lightning 0.7 doesn't work properly

[Suraj Fernandes]

Binary package hint: mozilla-thunderbird

I have two pc's with ubuntu 7.10 and thunderbird 2.0.0.6 i think, the thing is that at my home, the portable works just fine with Thunderbird and lightning, i can see correctly my events and I also installed provider for google calendar. And It just works perfectly on the tow sides. At Work I have the same configuration, and all I did was install in the synaptic manager. And both versions of ubuntu are installed in French, and then i copied the .mozilla-thunderbird from my house to work. i chowned to my user at work, and it was ok, but the calendar doesnt show correctly. The today page works, but when I click on calendar, all I can see is , straight top all white, and then a long blue horizontal line, and then some small green horizontal line.

Here is a screenshot, i hope someone can help me, thanks a lot

http://img264.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lightningerrorwy8.png

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Feb 14 11:13:14 2008
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
NonfreeKernelModules: vmnet vmblock vmmon
Package: mozilla-thunderbird None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-thunderbird.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux zfpsfs-desktop 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 08:02:57 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Michał Fryska (shoomq)]

I have the same result [like in screenshot] on a very fresh install, and even on a live-cd !!!! I tried it last 3 days on 6 different computers, with two different downloaded images [one from polish site, one from us].

It's completly mad. Today I downloaded and install lightning without any problem on my laptop (but it's equiped with Ubuntu for 2 months and the thunderbird is 2 months old). On every fresh thunderbird install it's impossible to run lightning.

The problem looks to be much more complicated. I have similar problems with extension I'm writing at work. On all computers we've checked it - works fine. Only on fresh [installed less than one week ago] installations of UBUNTU it fails! [the extension is written for firefox].

I started to notice strange behaviour of mozillas extensions on thursday. So: if any binaries of any mozilla package was changed about that day it may be the reason?

[Michał Fryska (shoomq)]

SOLVED: all you have to do is install libstdc++5 package.

Why it's not default with Ubuntu? Dunno.

And still don't know why my existing system suddenly refused to work. But it is possible, that I was installing some development packages for some reason, unfortunately i got rid of this installation so i cannot check it now.

[Suraj Fernandes (fernandes-suraj)]

Hey Michal,

Can you tell me the exact procedure, and the correct order of things you did to make it work, thanks
that would be great, an other way was to install lightning 0.5, but I don't like it, the way today is shown, I prefer the 0.7

[greenhunter (tierfreunde-hagenburg)]

Installing libstdc++5 solved the problem!

How should an average user get to this solution???

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

greenhunter i was thinking about this last night, I dont have my ubuntu pc with me and wont until end of april but i will email mozilla maintainer to see if he can add it to list of depends for me. I thought it was listed already but i will have him look. I am gonna leave this bug open for now awaiting responce from team mate.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

marked as incomplete until i hear back from Alexander to see if it can be added before release.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Changed package to lightning-sunbird as this isnt thunderbird fault.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Alexander can we make sure is a depends of lightning or would you ratehr i looked when i get home.
I have an issue with this in the sence that i swore firefox and/or thunderbird had it as a depends to begin with.
Can someone please run apt-cache depends firefox and apt-cache depends on thunderbird as well as lightning-sunbird

[Michał Fryska (shoomq)]

All Mozilla applications in Ubuntu distro depend on libstdc++6. Ubuntu lightning 0.5 depends on it too.
But the lightning 0.7 extension, when you download it from Mozilla webpage is compiled to use libstdc++5 (this is partly binary extension, not only XUL).
This is neither Ubuntu bug nor Mozillas. Just Ubuntu is "too new" and does not include libstdc++5 by default, and Mozilla is "for old ones too", that's why they distribute their binaries compiled to use old library :)

But for Ubuntu: maybe it's not bad idea to install some basic libraries in two versions by default?

Btw: I discovered this when I tried to run SUNBIRD 0.7 from command line. Then I had a clear message, that I lack libstdc++ library :)

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Can you please remove the lightning-sunbird packages that you have installed also remove libstdc++5 and leave ++6 installed and try our 0.8 package we uploaded for testing before we build it for Intrepid and hardy backports.
https://edge.launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/
Please let me know if all goes well or not.
Thank you

[Suraj Fernandes (fernandes-suraj)]

Yeah now it is really working, with Libstdc++5 and the 0.8 packet, works great, THX

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Suraj you shouldnt need libstdc++5 with sunbird 0.8 i believe libstdc++6 should work properly can you please test this to make sure. just need to remove the ++5 one and install ++6

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

This has been fixed in 0.8 it landed in Intrepid and i am working on bugs that 0.8 fixed and than will get it into Hardy backports.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

I have run into time issues and will get to it ASAP but for now the packages in my PPA are fine to use.

[Charles Bennington (charles-oddcast)]

Using the 0.8 worked for me too. Back-porting this would be a great thing.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Charles Bennington wrote:
> Using the 0.8 worked for me too. Back-porting this would be a great
> thing.
>
>
Thanks for reply. I will get to this soon, Ive been dealing with
personal issues.

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    John Vivirito

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[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Added Hardy Backports to get backporters to look at it.
I have the package in my PPA for Hardy found at https://edge.launchpad.net/~gnomefreak/+archive
0.8 is already in Intrepid
We have a few bugs that 0.8 on Hardy has fixed their issues. i will list bugs soon to this bug.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

sorr we aleady have a bug for 0.8. Iwill add hardy backports on that bug its bug 220166