Sunbird won't run under Mandrake 10.1

[MozMonkey]

I recently upgraded to Mandrake 10.1 official from Mandrake 9.1. Since I did this Sunbird has stopped working. When I try to run it from an icon on the desktop, it will appear on the taskbar but will die after a few seconds. It never gets to the point where a program window actually appears.

If I try to run "sunbird" from the command line I get the following error:
<b>./mozilla-xremote-client: Error: Failed to send command: 509 internal error</b>

If I try to run "sunbird-bin" from the command line I get the following error:
<b>./sunbird-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory</b>

libmozjs.so does exist in the sunbird directory.

I have tried both Linux tarballs available on the Sunbird download page (2004-11-12). Both have the same problem.

Anyone know what is wrong?

[MozMonkey]

After running ldd on sunbird-bin I found that the program cannot find the following shared libraries:

libmozjs.so
libxpcom_compat.so
libxpcom.so
libxpcom_core.so

All of these are in the Sunbird directory. I could make sunbird-bin find them by putting symbolic links in /usr/lib but then I had other problems. After creating the links and rerunning sunbird-bin:

<b>*** Registering -calendar handler.
*** Registering text/calendar handler.
*** Registering webcal protocol handler.
*** Registering -calendar handler.
*** Registering text/calendar handler.
*** Registering webcal protocol handler.
*** nsExtensionManager::_disableObsoleteExtensions - failure, catching exception so finalize window can close
*** loading the extensions datasource
*** Registering -calendar handler.
*** Registering text/calendar handler.
*** Registering webcal protocol handler.
*** loading the extensions datasource
*** Registering -calendar handler.
*** Registering text/calendar handler.
*** Registering webcal protocol handler.</b>

These last 4 lines repeated over and over until I killed the program. Also it didn't fix the error if I tried to run the sunbird script.

So I'm still not sure what is wrong. Help! I would really like to use Sunbird.

[mvl]

runnig sunbird-bin is not the right thing, you need to run sunbird. This isn't the full solution, but at least should reduce the amount of tries you will need
For the restarting problem, removing your profile might help. It is something with the extension manager.

[MozMonkey]

Yes, I normally run the sunbird executable, not sunbird-bin. But the error message I got wasn't very helpful, so I decided that maybe running the sunbird-bin executable directly might provide more information about what was going wrong. Maybe the inability to find the shared libraries was caused by the fact that I was running sunbird-bin directly. I was just poking around hoping I could figure out what might be wrong.

I have tried deleting the sunbird profile directory before starting sunbird but it hasn't enabled sunbird to run properly. When I run sunbird after deleting the sunbird profile directory, I get a message on startup saying: "Any old extensions you have installed have been disabled." before it dies. So it sounds like you're on to something. I haven't installed any extensions on this machine in Sunbird or any other Mozilla apps, so I'm not sure why this error would show up. Any other suggestions?

[MozMonkey]

Well, one more thing I just noticed. When I run Sunbird, it appeared to crash and die. However when I checked the running processes I found that Sunbird is still running and sucking up CPU like it is caught in an infinite loop of some kind. However I thought it died because it disapeared from the taskbar.