Odd Firebird Issue

[James Lademann <J.W.Lademann@ex.ac.uk>]

Hi there,
I recently installed Debian then upgraded to unstable and I'm working on
setting things how I like it and installing all my favourite programs,
but I've hit a snag with Mozilla-Firebird.  I installed it and at first
everything seemed fine and I installed a few of the extensions that
looked interesting and then all of a sudden it stopped working.  I tried
for a while, figured something went wrong with an extension and removed
Firebird and all its associated files and installed again but I still
can't get it to work.  Mozilla, Mozilla-snapshot and Galeon all work
fine but Firebird refuses to run.  Anyone have any ideas?  I'm using
Galeon right now but I generally prefer Firebird (the Galeon scrollbar
thing really annoys me). For those that understand such things, here's
the end of the strace: 

fstat64(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=24376, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 27380, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 10, 0) =
0x40015000
mprotect(0x4001b000, 2804, PROT_NONE)   = 0
old_mmap(0x4001b000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED,
10, 0x5000) = 0x4001b000
close(10)                               = 0
open("/home/james/.phoenix/appreg", O_RDWR) = 10
fstat64(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=376, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1, 0) = 0x408e2000
fstat64(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=376, ...}) = 0
_llseek(10, 0, [0], SEEK_SET)           = 0
read(10, "ADdv\1\0\2\0x\1\0\0\202\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"...,
376) = 376
_llseek(10, 376, [376], SEEK_SET)       = 0
read(10, "", 4096)                      = 0
gettimeofday({1056654481, 762198}, NULL) = 0
close(10)                               = 0
munmap(0x408e2000, 4096)                = 0
brk(0)                                  = 0x80da000
brk(0x80de000)                          = 0x80de000
open("/usr/lib/mozilla-firebird/defaults/pref",
O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 10
fstat64(10, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=6, ...}) = 0
fcntl64(10, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)        = 0
getdents64(10, /* 2 entries */, 4096)   = 48
getdents64(10, /* 0 entries */, 4096)   = 0
close(10)                               = 0
write(7, "8", 1)                        = 1
kill(4591, SIGRTMIN)                    = 0
write(9, "\200\240\32@\1\0\0\0\2@\0\0kM\f@\220\3\32@\0\320\31@kM"...,
148) = 148kill(4592, SIGRTMIN)                    = 0
write(9, "\200\240\32@\1\0\0\0\3\200\0\0\0P\27@\330\"\27@x\364\26"...,
148) = 148
read(4, 0xbffff7a3, 1)                  = -1 EAGAIN (Resource
temporarily unavailable)
close(4)                                = 0
close(5)                                = 0
close(6)                                = 0
close(7)                                = 0
write(9, "\200\240\32@\2\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0000J@p2J@\3404J@\3009J@\300"...,
148) = 148
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, NULL, [RTMIN], 8) = 0
rt_sigsuspend([] <unfinished ...>
--- SIGRTMIN (Real-time signal 0) @ 0 (0) ---
<... rt_sigsuspend resumed> )           = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system
call)
sigreturn()                             = ? (mask now [RTMIN])
wait4(4590, NULL, __WCLONE, NULL)       = 4590
exit_group(1)


Cheers,
James

-- 
James Lademann <J.W.Lademann@ex.ac.uk>