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

[Hajimu UMEMOTO]

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.

Sincerely,

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