Bug 87819

Summary:	Thunderbird 1.0 crashes when ever i try to write a new message
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Emanuel Indermühle <e.i>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	critical
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Emanuel Indermühle 2005-04-03 11:16:15 UTC

Thunderbird 1.0 crashes when ever i try to write a new message
it leaves the message:

/usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 111:  7535 Segmentation fault      "$mozbin" "$@"
thunderbird-bin exited with non-zero status (139)

in the terminal

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Thunderbird
2.Click on "New Message"

Actual Results:  
thunderbird crashes, leaving the folowing message in the terminal:
/usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 111:  7535 Segmentation fault      "$mozbin"
"$@"
thunderbird-bin exited with non-zero status (139)

Expected Results:  
Thunderbird should open a new Window where i can write the new Message.

This happens with version 1.0 as also whit 1.0.2. It happens with the binary
ebuild as also with the source code one.
I can open old messages with no problem.

I'm using xorg and KDE 3.3.0

Here is my emerge --info
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1,
2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.10
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Mar 22 2005, 16:10:53)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r4
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.solnet.ch/mirror/Gentoo/ http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://ftp.solnet.ch/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa apache2 apm arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr
crypt cups curl dvd emboss encode esd fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gd
gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 icq imap imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kde libg++ libwww mad
maildir mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls odbc oggvorbis opengl oscar
pam pcmcia pdflib perl php png postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline samba
sdl speex spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts
unicode usb wxwindows xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv yahoo zlib linguas_de"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS

Comment 1 Jory A. Pratt 2005-08-14 13:42:48 UTC

is this still an issue? If not please close for us.

Comment 2 Emanuel Indermühle 2005-08-16 08:14:39 UTC

it is still not working in version 1.0.6

Comment 3 Jory A. Pratt 2005-08-16 08:28:56 UTC

If you would please run revdep-rebuild to make sure all deps are okay, also
check to make sure permissions are okay on your ~/.thunderbird dir. I do not see
anything that should be causing this issue sorry.

Comment 4 Emanuel Indermühle 2005-08-17 05:32:37 UTC

I got the problem clearer now, i think.

I used windows before installing gentoo. In windows i use thunderbird as well.
In gentoo i mounted the fat32 partition on which the email-data are stored
and made a symlink in ~/.thunderbird to this folder.
That doesn't seems to work. It results in the bug mentioned above.

But when making a new datafolder for thunderbird (a new profile folder)
it is working. So, i think, it's a problem of the interpretation of data made
with a windows version of thunderbird.

But shoudn't it work anyway.

Comment 5 Jory A. Pratt 2005-11-18 11:27:05 UTC

this only works if you are using the exact same versions of thunderbird. Only
way for this to work is to use -bin from portage which will match windows versions.