Re: thunderbird failure to clean environment

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:24:24 -0400
Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:

> I found that a user could not read .doc files via soffice by double
> clicking on them in thunderbird (up to date from pkgsrc), but could if
> she saved them to Desktop.  I wrote a script to unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> and invoke soffice, and then it worked.
> 
> The problem is that thunderbird is leaving both a thunderbird
> directory and /usr/pkg/lib (?) in LD_LIBRARY_PATH when it executes
> programs.  This is IMHO clearly wrong.  Is anyone else seeing this?
> I suspect it tends to show up on NetBSD more because of using
> linux-emulation viewers such as soffice and acrobat.
> 
I haven't seen it in Thunderbird; I have seen the same problem with
Firefox and acroread.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb