Bug 266820 – mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.21 hangs in nsAutoMonitor::Wait() forever

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

[Description georg.lippold 2009-04-20 03:21:48 UTC]

I have multiple IMAP accounts configured in Thunderbird. Additionally, my network connection is unreliable (sometimes the wireless connection drops due to distance problems for several seconds (up to 2 minutes)). I noticed that Thunderbird often hangs and is only able to be shut down by a "killall thunderbird-bin" or the like.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Actual Results:  
A stacktrace of Thunderbird with gdb after recompiling Thunderbird with "debug":

(gdb) where
#0  0xffffe424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb7c91cb5 in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#2  0xb7ce3e8f in PR_WaitCondVar () from /usr/lib/nspr/libnspr4.so.7
#3  0xb7ce3f18 in PR_Wait () from /usr/lib/nspr/libnspr4.so.7
#4  0xb7d77328 in nsAutoMonitor::Wait ()
   from /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/libxpcom_core.so
#5  0xb7d74512 in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/libxpcom_core.so
#6  0xbff428f0 in ?? ()
#7  0xffffffff in ?? ()
#8  0xbff428fc in ?? ()
#9  0x80470007 in ?? ()
#10 0x80470007 in ?? ()
#11 0xb7c97b36 in __errno_location () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#12 0x08efd2f8 in ?? ()
#13 0xbff42c04 in ?? ()
#14 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#15 0x08efd2f8 in ?? ()
#16 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#17 0xb7e04ff4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/libxpcom_core.so
#18 0x08eee6c4 in ?? ()
#19 0xbff4295c in ?? ()
#20 0xb7d7573d in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/libxpcom_core.so
#21 0x08efd26c in ?? ()
#22 0xbff4293c in ?? ()
#23 0xbff42938 in ?? ()
#24 0xb7d772fb in nsAutoMonitor::~nsAutoMonitor ()
   from /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/libxpcom_core.so
#25 0xb7d7419d in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/libxpcom_core.so
#26 0x08ef0f78 in ?? ()
#27 0x00001000 in ?? ()
#28 0xbff429b4 in ?? ()
#29 0xb5dbcff4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/components/libmail.so
#30 0xbff429ec in ?? ()
#31 0xb59a01ce in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/components/libmail.so
#32 0x08efd26c in ?? ()
#33 0x08ef0f78 in ?? ()
#34 0x00001000 in ?? ()
#35 0xbff429b4 in ?? ()
#36 0x08efd260 in ?? ()
#37 0x08efd26c in ?? ()
#38 0xb7deeca8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/libxpcom_core.so
#39 0x00000094 in ?? ()
#40 0x08bc09a8 in ?? ()
#41 0xb7e04ff4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/libxpcom_core.so
#42 0xbff429cc in ?? ()
#43 0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb)

To me this looks like the destructor of nsAutoMonitor was calling nsAutoMonitor::Wait() and hanging there forever. Maybe a timeout in Wait() would be possible (something like 2 seconds or so?).


emerge --info
Portage 2.1.6.7 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.27-gentoo-r10 i686)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r10-i686-Genuine_Intel-R-_CPU_2160_@_1.80GHz-with-glibc2.0
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:15:03 +0000
distcc 3.0 i686-pc-linux-gnu [disabled]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
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sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
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sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
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ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -mtune=native -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/ppp /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/www/localhost"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
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DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gentoo ftp://ftp.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gentoo"
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PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
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PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/xfce-dev /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/java-overlay /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
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Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2009-04-21 16:24:29 UTC]

Try with mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin and with a clean profile.

[Comment 2 Tolga Dalman 2009-10-09 11:14:38 UTC]

I'm seeing similar problems while composing new emails.

(In reply to comment #1)
> Try with mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin and with a clean profile.

Although this is what I'm going to do next, it doesn't help with the fact that mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird seems to be broken and should be either fixed or removed entirely.

 

[Comment 3 Jory A. Pratt 2009-10-09 11:30:13 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
snip
> Although this is what I'm going to do next, it doesn't help with the fact that
> mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird seems to be broken and should be either fixed
> or removed entirely.

Your not being forced to use thunderbird, there are plenty of options in the tree. If you can reproduce it with thunderbird-bin then we can work with upstream to come to a solution that will work for all users. I for one an unable to duplicate such a problem with thunderbird-3.0_beta4.

[Comment 4 Tolga Dalman 2009-10-09 14:06:01 UTC]

> Your not being forced to use thunderbird, there are plenty of options in the
> tree. If you can reproduce it with thunderbird-bin then we can work with
> upstream to come to a solution that will work for all users. I for one an
> unable to duplicate such a problem with thunderbird-3.0_beta4.

The point is, that thunderbird is currently broken for me and other users. Until thunderbird 3 reaches stable phase I am going to use the -bin version. It sounds promising to me that you have no problems with version 3 :)
 

[Comment 5 Jory A. Pratt 2010-03-22 01:24:25 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> > Your not being forced to use thunderbird, there are plenty of options in the
> > tree. If you can reproduce it with thunderbird-bin then we can work with
> > upstream to come to a solution that will work for all users. I for one an
> > unable to duplicate such a problem with thunderbird-3.0_beta4.
> 
> The point is, that thunderbird is currently broken for me and other users.
> Until thunderbird 3 reaches stable phase I am going to use the -bin version. It
> sounds promising to me that you have no problems with version 3 :)
> 
> 

tb-3.0.3 is stable update summary and reopen if problem persists.