FS#17977 - Thunderbird crashes

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Andrej Podzimek (andrej) - Sunday, 24 January 2010, 02:59 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Monday, 25 January 2010, 09:45 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture i686
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:

$ thunderbird

(thunderbird-bin:21799): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
/usr/lib/thunderbird-3.0/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 21799 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

Additional info:
* package version(s)
3.0-3

Steps to reproduce:
Start Thunderbird.

This version has already worked fine, so it must be related to an update to some of its dependencies.
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Monday, 25 January 2010, 09:45 GMT
Reason for closing:  None
Additional comments about closing:  Closed in favour of  FS#17987 
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Sunday, 24 January 2010, 03:12 GMT
mmm rare, my system is up-to-date, no issues here. Seems that you are running under KDE with qtcurve (same here), Try to select another theme, or disable it, for testing if related to this.
Comment by Andrej Podzimek (andrej) - Sunday, 24 January 2010, 03:54 GMT
Tried multiple themes, then logged out and started Gnome. Both Firefox and Thunderbird crashed under Gnome as well.
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Sunday, 24 January 2010, 04:10 GMT
Oh Gnome, OK. Another test is running under "plain X", just under twm. Maybe is related with some gnome component.
Comment by Andrej Podzimek (andrej) - Sunday, 24 January 2010, 08:14 GMT
It fails the same way with TWM.
Comment by Andrej Podzimek (andrej) - Sunday, 24 January 2010, 10:55 GMT
strace output from a Thunderbird run.
   strace-thunderbird (28.2 KiB)
Comment by Andrej Podzimek (andrej) - Sunday, 24 January 2010, 11:03 GMT
Tried to move ~/.thunderbird to ~/.thunderbird.bak. Blank settings helped here: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17483 In my case, it crashed as well, but later, right after the 'What should I import?' dialog.

RedHat forum says the Mac-like Gnome menu could be the cause. I use neither Gnome, nor the Mac-like menu. (And it crashes under TWM, too.)
Comment by Andrej Podzimek (andrej) - Sunday, 24 January 2010, 13:04 GMT
Eclipse stopped working as well. It crashes soon after the main window appears. This bug is becoming a critical showstopper for me.

The old version of X.org and related libraries I use might be one of the reasons... Unfortunately, I can't upgrade that stuff because of this serious issue: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14594

Anyway, everything worked perfectly fine till yesterday's system upgrade. I might need to downgrade some packages. But which ones? Attaching a list of packages upgraded yesterday. Any ideas? Which one could have caused all this?
   upgraded-packages (11.4 KiB)
Comment by Andrej Podzimek (andrej) - Sunday, 24 January 2010, 13:26 GMT
Sorry for my multiposting... This is what GDB says when I try to run Thunderbird or Firefox:

#0 0xb71b6560 in inflate_table () from /usr/lib/libz.so.1
#1 0xb7f91530 in ?? () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#2 0xbffec47c in ?? ()
#3 0xb7697b25 in g_static_rw_lock_writer_unlock () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
Backtrace stopped: previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)

libz.so.1 is owned by zlib. Either zlib has a bug or both Thunderbird and Firefox started misusing the library somehow. If the former holds, the bug must have been introduced between 1.2.3.3-3 and 1.2.3.4-4.
Comment by Andrej Podzimek (andrej) - Sunday, 24 January 2010, 13:41 GMT
WOW! Got it!

This one works: http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/zlib/trunk/PKGBUILD?rev=22840
[...The problem must have been introduced somewhere here...]
This one crashes: http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/zlib/trunk/PKGBUILD?rev=63268
The latest one crashes: http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/zlib/trunk/PKGBUILD?rev=65111

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