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

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:09:45 +0200
Andriy Gapon <avg at icyb.net.ua> wrote:

> on 12/01/2010 08:53 Hajimu UMEMOTO said the following:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >>>>>> 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.

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Gary Jennejohn