Bug 490436 - Thunderbird won't switch themes
Summary: Thunderbird won't switch themes
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: beagle
Version: 10
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Adel Gadllah
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-03-16 12:54 UTC by Knut-Håvard Aksnes
Modified: 2018-04-11 09:43 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-12-18 09:01:55 UTC
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2009-03-26 00:08 UTC, Matěj Cepl
no flags Details

Description Knut-Håvard Aksnes 2009-03-16 12:54:57 UTC
Description of problem:
When restarting thunderbird after selecting a new theme the old theme is still used.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
thunderbird-2.0.0.19-1.fc10.x86_64

How reproducible:
Everytime

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download and install a new compatible theme, i have tested PitchDark and Walnut
2. Choose the new theme
3. Restart thunderbird
  
Actual results:
The old default theme is still used.

Expected results:
The new theme should be used.


Additional info:
If I shut down the theme selection box after selecting the theme and then reopens it the theme selection seems to be forgotten. (The select theme button is clickable.) This makes me believe that the theme switch isn't stored properly. Adding and removing extensions works well.

Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2009-03-26 00:08:08 UTC
Created attachment 336730 [details]
screenshot of non-reproduction

I would say WORKSFORME, right?

Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2009-03-26 00:10:54 UTC
Please, provide us with any information you can think might be related (something interesting about your system, configuration, network conditions, etc.), which would allows to reproduce the bug here.

Thank you in advace.

Comment 3 Knut-Håvard Aksnes 2009-03-26 19:21:49 UTC
The underlying problem might be that restart fails when selecting restart thunderbird after running the install of the pitch dark theme: 

[kha@localhost Download]$ thunderbird 
abs 0.9.0 appVersion=2.0.0.21 mTB3=0
/usr/lib64/thunderbird-2.0.0.21/run-mozilla.sh: line 131:  4071 Segmentation fault      "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

The machine have lots of stuff installed, the graphics drivers are the fgrlrx ones as these are the only ones giving me reasonable performance. Sun JRE is installed due to some problems with the Java->Javascript bridge in OpenJDK 64 bit for similar reasons i had to install the Adobe  64 bit flash plugin for firefox. The problem is that a banking related webpage I depend on needs these. 
Plugins installed for firefox are:
FoxyTunes (unused but installed)
Lightening
Norsk Nynorsk ordliste
Norsk Bokmål ordliste
Quick Locale Switcher
ReminderFox
Sync Kolab
ThunderBirthDay
WebMail
WebMail - AOL/Netscape
WebMail - GMAil
WebMail - Hotmail
WebMail - Libero
WebMail - Lycos
WebMail - MailDotCom
WebMail - Yahoo

Comment 4 Matěj Cepl 2009-03-27 09:57:58 UTC
OK, most likely it will be some problem in your plugins. So, first of all, try to restart thunderbird with -safe-mode parameter on its command line (that switched off all plugsin/extensions/etc). Does it help? If not then it is time for some debugging:

1) could we get output of the command

	rpm -qa *xulrun* *thunderbird* *mozilla* *flash* *plugin*


2) please install thunderbird-debuginfo (debuginfo-install is from yum-utils package).

	debuginfo-install thunderbird

Then run thunderbird with a parameter -g. That will start thunderbird running inside of gdb debugger. Then use command run and do whatever you did to make thunderbird crash. When it happens, you should go back to the gdb and run

	(gdb) thread apply all backtrace

This produces usually many screens of the text. Copy all of them into a text editor and attach the file to the bug as an uncompressed attachment.

We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information.

Thanks in advance.

Comment 5 Knut-Håvard Aksnes 2009-03-27 14:56:42 UTC
The problem disapears when I disable Beagle Indexer 0.1.3

Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2009-11-18 11:21:10 UTC
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Comment 7 Bug Zapper 2009-12-18 09:01:55 UTC
Fedora 10 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-12-17. Fedora 10 is 
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