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

[Guido Falsi]

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.

-- 
Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>