Bug 175803 – mozilla-thunderbird 2.0.0.0 crashes or freezes when receiving a new mail

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Lorenzo Bettini 2007-04-24 06:55:12 UTC]

When running mozilla-thunderbird, upon receiving a new mail in the Inbox the application crashes with such an error:

/usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119: 12931 Segmentation fault      $(type -P aoss) "$mozbin" "$@"
thunderbird-bin exited with non-zero status (139)

or freezes with such an error:

*** glibc detected *** /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/thunderbird-bin: free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x09438f68 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6[0xb762a96b]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_free+0x7e)[0xb762bee1]
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/libstdc++.so.6(_ZdlPv+0x21)[0xb77a0899]
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/libstdc++.so.6(_ZdaPv+0x1d)[0xb77a08e5]
/usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/components/libwidget_gtk2.so[0xb611f36d]
/usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/components/libwidget_gtk2.so[0xb612debd]
/usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/components/libwidget_gtk2.so[0xb611da31]
/usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/libxpcom_core.so(_ZN13nsCOMPtr_base18assign_with_AddRefEP11nsISupports+0x28)[0xb7e9c34a]
/usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/components/libnsappshell.so[0xb5820f23]
/usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/components/libnsappshell.so[0xb5824816]
/usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/components/libnsappshell.so[0xb5817762]
/usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/components/libgklayout.so[0xb558a8cc]
/usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/components/libgklayout.so[0xb558accc]
/usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/libxpcom_core.so(PL_HandleEvent+0x21)[0xb7eddee9]
/usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/libxpcom_core.so(PL_ProcessPendingEvents+0x58)[0xb7ede1b8]
/usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/libxpcom_core.so[0xb7edfdce]
/usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/components/libwidget_gtk2.so[0xb6122c23]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0[0xb79289e5]


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run thunderbird
2. send yourself an email
3. wait for the email to arrive in your inbox

Actual Results:  
either thunderbird crashes or freezes


emerge --info
Portage 2.1.2.2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.20-gentoo-r6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.20-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:31:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [disabled]
dev-java/java-config: 1.2.10
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r3, 2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.15-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -O2"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/fax /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/spool/fax/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache1-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -O2"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo"
LINGUAS="en it"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/appo/build"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa apache2 arts berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt ctype cups dbus dri dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd fam firefox fortran gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv innodb ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde ldap libg++ mad midi mikmod mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre perl php png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis win32codecs x86 xml xml2 xorg xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en it" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa fbdev"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Krzysztof Pawlik (RETIRED) 2007-04-24 09:51:38 UTC]

Are you using any theme? If so - please try without it. I've got the same bug with using a theme.

[Comment 2 Lorenzo Bettini 2007-04-24 13:44:34 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Are you using any theme? If so - please try without it. I've got the same bug
> with using a theme.
> 

Oh dear, you're right!

the problem seems to be the theme!
When using the default theme everything works fine!

Thanks a lot!

But probably there's a problem in checking compatibility of themes: when I started the new thunderbird for the first time it downloaded the new version of the theme but that wasn't enough probably...

[Comment 3 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2007-04-24 14:49:27 UTC]

Closing then :)

[Comment 4 Lorenzo Bettini 2007-04-24 14:56:32 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Closing then :)
> 

well there's still the bug concerning theme compatibility... or is the problem in the themes themselves?

[Comment 5 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2007-04-24 15:11:36 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> 
> well there's still the bug concerning theme compatibility... or is the problem
> in the themes themselves?
> 

Hrm...try with the -bin version. Have you tried reinstalling the theme again? If a theme is incompatible we can't do anything to fix that. 

[Comment 6 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2007-04-30 14:01:09 UTC]

*** Bug 176575 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 7 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-06-02 13:17:11 UTC]

*** Bug 180639 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 8 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-06-27 19:10:01 UTC]

*** Bug 183445 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***