Hi!
So... following lots of testing and a final contribution by Detlef
Drewanz, here is something that will let you run Thunderbird 3 on OSol
builds 130 and above.
First some history.
Due to some reason I don't really understand, the contributed builds of
TBird you get from Mozilla.com core dump on OSol b130 and above. To fix
that, you need to have :
export LD_BIND_NOW=1
Before launching TBird. Norbert Copones pointed me to that one earlier!
Then... there is a limitation in TBird that is it a 32 bit binary and as
such can't open more than 256 files. If you have hundreds of folders,
like I have, this limit hits you like a hammer and you get stuck with
error messages (it complains it can't open MSF files and gives "too many
open files" errors for icons in the UI).
To fix this, you need to increase the number of file descriptors :
ulimit -n 4096
And then to tell it to use a library that will let it open MORE than 256
files :
export LD_PRELOAD_32=/usr/lib/extendedFILE.so.1
(Detlef found that last one out! Thanks!)
So you can add directly the following to the /usr/bin/thunderbird script :
ulimit -n 4096
export LD_PRELOAD_32=/usr/lib/extendedFILE.so.1
export LD_BIND_NOW=1
(right after the first #!/bin/bash)
And now enjoy the full power of Thunberbird 3!
Gilles
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