It's been quite a while since I've looked at this bug as I no longer hit it myself due to using a new linux distro with a full GIO implementation, plus I no longer regularly receive the kind of emails which trigger this...
Please read back to comments 67 through to 70 ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=541130#c70 ) where we established that there are significantly different ways to hit the same problem. For anyone running RHEL or CentOS I'm going to hazard a guess that you're not hitting the cause I encountered under Ubuntu, but instead the cause that jhorak discovered, whereby the very old version of GVFS in Red Hat has a bug whereby these messages will always be shown in a pop- up console window. I think the only way forward to cleanly fix this issue if for Thunderbird to contain an exception that if it thinks it's found a possible URL and wants to seek a handler - if that string contains a '+' sign and either GVFS or GIO are in use, then do not look for a handler. hope this helps. Jonathan -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/411358 Title: Thunderbird2 gconf gmt problem 'Bad key or directory name' because of plus symbol (+) Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News: Confirmed Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Here is an error message for Thunderbird 2 in Jaunty gnubyexample@k8amd:~$ thunderbird GConf Error: Bad key or directory name: "/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/GMT+02/command": `+' is an invalid character in key/directory names gnubyexample@k8amd:~$ date;uname -a;cat /etc/*version*;dpkg -l | grep underbird Sun Aug 9 14:48:37 BST 2009 Linux k8amd 2.6.28-14-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Sat Jul 25 00:28:35 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux 5.0 ii enigmail 2:0.95.7-1ubuntu2 Enigmail - GPG support for Thunderbird ii thunderbird 2.0.0.22+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1 mail/news client with RSS and integrated spam filter support ii thunderbird-locale-en-gb 1:2.0.0.14+1-0ubuntu2 Thunderbird English language/region package From reading this extract ( http://osdir.com/ml/os.solaris.opensolaris.desktop/2008-03/msg00020.html ): Subject: Re: GConf/Thunderbird error on Solaris Nevada "Hi Mats,I believe you download the contribute builds of Thunderbird 2, and run it on snv_70. For some reason, the fix is upstreamed to Thunderbird 3 alpha, but not community version of Thunderbird 2. Fixed in snv_68 means the fix was integrated to Thunderbird bundled with snv_68." ...it seems that the fix for this in thunderbird2 might require some manual intervention as although the problem is well know, the fix was only incorporated in the newer thunderbird3. Have just checked the Karmic version at: http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/thunderbird which currently shows that version 2 of thunderbird is planned for Karmic release. As thunderbird3 is at Beta 3 right now I can perhaps see why debian and ubuntu are sticking with Thunderbird2 just now. http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/about/press/archive/2009-07-21-01 However it does seem a shame to ship a new release with this known gconf issue unpatched. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/411358/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
