Ticket #405 (closed defect: fixed)
Uninstalling debathena-thunderbird-config breaks thunderbird
| Reported by: | kchen | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | Summer 2010 (Lucid Deploy) |
| Component: | -- | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Fixed in version: | ||
| Upstream bug: |
Description
I installed thunderbird and debathena-thunderbird-config, and shortly afterward, uninstalled debathena-thunderbird-config. This broke thunderbird -- attempting to launch thunderbird at that point resulted in the error:
"Failed to read the configuration file. Please contact your system administrator."
Evan mentioned that this is a Debathena bug and that I should file a ticket. The work around he gave me was to purge debathena-thunderbird-config, rather than uninstalling it.
Change History
comment:3 Changed 14 years ago by broder
- Status changed from new to proposed
I've come up with a way to make this work.
Thundebird ignores broken symlinks in /etc/thunderbird/pref/, so by making /etc/thunderbird/pref/debathena.js a symlink to something in /usr/share (i.e. a symlink to a non-conffile), the symlink becomes broken when debathena-thunderbird-config is uninstalled.
I also verified that dpkg does the right thing on upgrades when a regular file conffile is replaced with a symlink.
Fix is in r24671, uploaded to -proposed.
We need to figure out some way to conditionalize /etc/thunderbird/pref/debathena.js based on if the package is still installed.
Curiously, I don't see how any of the files in /etc/firefox-3.0/pref/ deal with this.