541312 - Thunderbird alloc error in system.log

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Hubert Figuiere [:hub]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1

Lately I get a lot of

Jan 21 22:49:08 caprica6 [0x0-0x139139].org.mozilla.thunderbird[3445]: thunderbird-bin(3445,0xa0857500) malloc: *** mmap(size=41377792) failed (error code=12)
Jan 21 22:49:08 caprica6 [0x0-0x139139].org.mozilla.thunderbird[3445]: *** error: can't allocate region
Jan 21 22:49:08 caprica6 [0x0-0x139139].org.mozilla.thunderbird[3445]: *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug

in system.log on MacOS X 10.6.2

Thunderbird 3.0.1

I don't know if it is related, but Thunderbird has been crashing a lot too, or hanging when I quit it.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #0)
 
> Thunderbird 3.0.1

Mark, Philippe are you guys seeing this ? (I'm not but I'm on 10.5)
 
> I don't know if it is related, but Thunderbird has been crashing a lot too, or
> hanging when I quit it.

I don't think so. Can you read http://kb.mozillazine.org/Breakpad and use crash-stats.mozilla.com to make sure your crashes are logged in our system ?

For the hangs - can you look at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Testing:Shutdown_Hang and see if something you are having is matching our current bugs ?

Comment 2

[Hubert Figuiere [:hub]]

Some crashes have been sent, some haven't been.

Comment 3

[Hubert Figuiere [:hub]]

I was about to say that hadn't happened in a while until I started copying messages over to my IMAP archive:

My mail is read over IMAP from dreamhost, and I archive it locally here on my Linux server using IMAP. So I copy message from one to the other using T-Bird. And it is when I added that IMAP account to T-Bird that it started (mis-)behaving

FWIW, the local server is a Debian Lenny and courier-imap-ssl 4.4.0-2

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

I've not seen this, but there again I'm on 10.5.

Hubert - what we really need to start looking at this is the crash ids. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Breakpad gives information as to how.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Mark Banner (:standard8) from comment #4)
> Hubert - what we really need to start looking at this is the crash ids.
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Breakpad gives information as to how.

lacks requested information.
if you no longer see problem on newer release, please change resolution to WORKSFORME.
if you do see the problem on newer release, please update the bug with details.

Comment 6

[Hubert Figuiere [:hub]]

Running the Thunderbird 7 from the beta channel.
And I haven't seen that happen in a while.