thunderbird3: dies with socket(): Protocol not supported Illegal instruction (core dumped)

[O. Hartmann]

On 01/12/10 15:31, Guido Falsi wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 02:30:56PM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:54:48 +0100
>>>>>>>>> ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de said:
>>>>
>>>> ohartman>  Since friday after the last FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE/amd64 update, thunderbird3
>>>> ohartman>  crashes immmediately or after a view seconds with
>>>>
>>>> ohartman>  socket(): Protocol not supported
>>>> ohartman>  Illegal instruction (core dumped)
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure but I suspect you are using custom kernel built without
>>>> INET6 option.  If so, thunderbird3 is depending upon IPv6.
>>>
>>> Can it be made to not require IPv6? (especially when there is no actual IPv6
>>> connectivity).
>>>
>>
>> Seems to be hardcoded all over the place.  Looks like it would require major
>> modifications.
>
> This is strange. I'm using an 8.0-STABL:E/amd64 compiled yesterday here.
> Custom kernel without INET6 and thunderbird3 works quite fine.
>

Sorry for the long delay.

Well, after recompiling several ports the situation seems to get relxed, 
but thunderbird3 is crashing on SMP boxes more frequent than on non-SMP 
FreeBSD 8/amd64 boxes. So far.
I tried to rebuild via portmaster every thunderbird-dependencies (ports 
on which tunderbird3 depends on, if my English isn't clear). No success.
I realise those crashes when I try to abort message sending, then 
thunderbird crahes immediately. Sometimes it vanishes silently, leaving 
a dead-mark (core dump) behind. No idea what's going wrong.

On my private slwo UP box (FBSD 8.0/amd64 STABLE) thunderbird is stable, 
but really slow ...

Regards,
Oliver