1514605 - Thunderbird crashes on startup if GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 is set

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect, P1)

Description

[Elvis Angelaccio]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0

Steps to reproduce:

Run `GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 thunderbird`


Actual results:

Thunderbird crashes on startup


Expected results:

Thunderbird should not crash, or at least fail gracefully if running with GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 is not supported.

Comment 1

[Elvis Angelaccio]

Note that I cannot post a backtrace because archlinux doesn't ship debug symbols. But given that this crash is 100% reproducible I hope that someone else will be able to.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

If you cannot get symbols with archlinux  then please get a backtrace using https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/60.3.3/linux-x86_64/en-US/

Comment 3

[Elvis Angelaccio]

Thanks for the link, it doesn't crash using that package. I'll report the crash downstream.

Comment 4

[Murz]

I got same crash on Ubuntu with GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 environment variable set.

Comment 5

[Murz]

Here is Report contents for this crash:
Add-ons: gconversation%40xulforum.org:2.14.7,%7Ba300a000-5e21-4ee0-a115-9ec8f4eaa92b%7D:0.3.17b1,%7B972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd%7D:60.4.0,messagingmenu%40mozilla.com:1.4
BuildID: 20190115190018
ContentSandboxCapabilities: 119
ContentSandboxCapable: 1
ContentSandboxLevel: 0
CrashTime: 1548746230
Email: [e-mail]
FramePoisonBase: 9223372036600930304
FramePoisonSize: 4096
InstallTime: 1548745720
Notes: Ubuntu 18.10FP(D00-L1100-W00000000-T000) OpenGL: Intel Open Source Technology Center -- Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell -- 3.0 Mesa 18.2.2 -- texture_from_pixmap
WR? WR- OMTP? OMTP-
ProductID: {3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6}
ProductName: Thunderbird
ReleaseChannel: release
SafeMode: 0
SecondsSinceLastCrash: 487409
StartupCrash: 0
StartupTime: 1548746229
TelemetryEnvironment: {"build":{"applicationId":"{3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6}","applicationName":"Thunderbird","architecture":"x86-64","buildId":"20190115190018","version":"60.4.0","vendor":null,"platformVersion":"60.4.0","xpcomAbi":"x86_64-gcc3","updaterAvailable":false},"partner":{"distributionId":null,"distributionVersion":null,"partnerId":null,"distributor":null,"distributorChannel":null,"partnerNames":[]},"system":{"memoryMB":7792,"virtualMaxMB":null,"cpu":{"count":4,"cores":2,"vendor":"GenuineIntel","family":6,"model":60,"stepping":3,"l2cacheKB":256,"l3cacheKB":3072,"speedMHz":3400,"extensions":["hasMMX","hasSSE","hasSSE2","hasSSE3","hasSSSE3","hasSSE4_1","hasSSE4_2","hasAVX","hasAVX2","hasAES"]},"os":{"name":"Linux","version":"4.18.0-13-generic","locale":"ru-RU"},"hdd":{"profile":{"model":null,"revision":null},"binary":{"model":null,"revision":null},"system":{"model":null,"revision":null}},"gfx":{"D2DEnabled":null,"DWriteEnabled":null,"ContentBackend":"Skia","adapters":[{"description":"Intel Open Source Technology Center -- Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell ","vendorID":"Intel Open Source Technology Center","deviceID":"Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell ","subsysID":null,"RAM":null,"driver":null,"driverVersion":"3.0 Mesa 18.2.2","driverDate":null,"GPUActive":true}],"monitors":[],"features":{"compositor":"none","gpuProcess":{"status":"unused"}}},"appleModelId":null},"settings":{"blocklistEnabled":true,"e10sEnabled":false,"e10sMultiProcesses":4,"telemetryEnabled":false,"locale":"en-US","update":{"channel":"release","enabled":true,"autoDownload":true},"userPrefs":{"browser.cache.disk.capacity":276480,"browser.search.region":"RU"},"sandbox":{"effectiveContentProcessLevel":0},"addonCompatibilityCheckEnabled":true,"isDefaultBrowser":null},"profile":{}}
ThreadIdNameMapping: 28980:"Gecko_IOThread",28981:"Link Monitor",28982:"Socket Thread",28983:"JS Watchdog",28990:"BGReadURLs",28991:"Hang Monitor",28996:"Timer",28997:"StreamTrans #1",28998:"Cache2 I/O",28999:"Cookie",29000:"GMPThread",29001:"SoftwareVsyncThread",29002:"Compositor",29003:"VRListener",29004:"ImgDecoder #1",29005:"ImageIO",29010:"IPDL Background",29011:"LoadRoots",29012:"DataStorage",29013:"DataStorage",29015:"mozStorage #1",29016:"HTML5 Parser",29020:"ImgDecoder #2",29021:"DOM Worker",29022:"ImageBridgeChild",
Throttleable: 1
UptimeTS: 1.03866891
Vendor:
Version: 60.4.0
useragent_locale: en-US

This report also contains technical information about the state of the application when it crashed.

Comment 6

[joncfoo]

I've experienced this same crash with Thunderbird 60.5.1 from the mozilla team's ppa on Ubuntu 18.10.

In my case, I had to first add a mail account and when autoconfiguration was complete and I hit done/continue thunderbird crashes. Any subsequent launches result in a crash until the cache+profile is removed (I'm not sure if removing both is necessary but it works).

un-setting GTK_USE_PORTAL and then launching thunderbird seems to work (no more crashes).

package details

Package: thunderbird
Version: 1:60.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.10.1~mt1
Priority: optional
Section: mail
Maintainer: Ubuntu Mozilla Team <[e-mail]>

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

murz

We need your crash ID - see https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mozilla-crash-reporter-tb#w_viewing-crash-reports
(Unfortunately "crash details" isn't useful here)

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Elvis Angelaccio from comment #3)

Thanks for the link, it doesn't crash using that package. I'll report the crash downstream.

Do you have a link?

Comment 9

[Elvis Angelaccio]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #8)

(In reply to Elvis Angelaccio from comment #3)

Thanks for the link, it doesn't crash using that package. I'll report the crash downstream.

Do you have a link?

Sure: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/61134

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Anyone else see crashes with this setting?

Comment 11

[Murz]

Here is my two fresh crash id's for this issue:
bp-b9d80041-48a4-42d9-a4fd-8a1eb0190309
bp-e0e1b55d-99be-43eb-8ace-487550190309

Comment 12

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Thanks Murz. Was this using a download from https://releases.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/60.5.1/linux-x86_64/en-US/ ?

Comment 13

[Alessandro Menti]

I confirm I'm seeing the crash as well on TB 60.5.3 - since the Arch Linux build does not have debug symbols enabled, I'm recompiling the package to see if I can get a proper backtrace.

Comment 14

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Alessandro Menti from comment #13)

I confirm I'm seeing the crash as well on TB 60.5.3 - since the Arch Linux build does not have debug symbols enabled, I'm recompiling the package to see if I can get a proper backtrace.

Alessandro recompiling from http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/60.6.1/linux-x86_64/ ?
Did you have success?

And does this also happen with Firefox?

Comment 15

[Alessandro Menti]

Hi Wayne,
I tried recompiling Thunderbird but, despite adding the proper configuration switches to add debug symbols, apparently the build process did not add them.

I can also confirm that the crash does not happen with Firefox (I tested it with the Arch Linux provided package, version 66.0.5-1).

Comment 16

[WaltS48 [:walts48]]

Learned something new today. :)

No crash here starting Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 from Ubuntu with GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 thunderbird -p on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS.

I did get this message in the terminal.

"JavaScript error: jar:file:///usr/lib/thunderbird/omni.ja!/components/XULStore.js, line 65: Error: Can't find profile directory."

The Profile Manager opened anyway and I was able to use the associated profile.

I get the same error without using the -p switch.

Comment 17

[Benjamin Flanagin]

I've tested 6.70.0, 6.70.1, 68.0b1, and the daily on Ubuntu 19.04, all crash after all dialogs are closed and it seems (still needs a little more testing) at least one email account is setup.

Whats odd is that unless you explicitly set GTK_USE_PORTAL = 1 in the string to launch TB (i.e. 'GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 thunderbird') the bug is not triggered.

It also happens regardless to the value you give GTK_USE_PORTAL as 'GTK_USE_PORTAL=0 thunderbird'

Comment 18

[Benjamin Flanagin]

Here are the crash reports generated using the beta

bp-b5718f8c-7977-46a4-84b8-d190b0190618 <-- with 'GTK_USE_PORTAL=0 thunderbird'

bp-0fd780e4-9d38-4b70-b887-208e50190618 <-- with 'GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 thunderbird'

Comment 19

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

FWIW, 12 crashes from the same person today, on 69.0b1

Comment 20

[Jörn]

I am experiencing this crash on kubuntu 18.10 using thunderbird 60.8.0. Installed package is 60.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.10.1
I set GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 in the '.profile' file in the home folder.
Could provide debugging backtrace/data.

Comment 21

[Benjamin Flanagin]

This seems to be the only reference to GTK_USE_PORTAL in Mozilla's code.
https://searchfox.org/comm-central/source/mozilla/toolkit/system/gnome/nsGIOService.cpp#35

I'm going to start a regression search, and looking around the Mozilla code to see if there is something they set that we don't.

Will update at the end of the day.

Comment 23

[Benjamin Flanagin]

So it seems this has been in the code a LONG time. So if it is a regression I haven't found it yet. I still find it odd that Firefox doesn't suffer from the same issue given we share so much of the code base.

Comment 24

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Attachment: bug1514605_GTK_USE_PORTAL.patch

Can't reproduce at least on trunk. But if the crash report numbers are correct, this would be the issue.

Comment 25

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Comment on attachment 9091741 [details] [diff] [review]
bug1514605_GTK_USE_PORTAL.patch

Typically for a QI, a bad status and returning null are synonymous. I wouldn't check both, but there's no harm done.

Comment 26

[Murz]

Seems fixed, GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 thunderbird goes to work well on Ubuntu 19.04 with thunderbird-mozilla-build_68.0-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb!
With thunderbird-mozilla-build_60.8.0-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb now there are no crash, but dialog is still GTK.
Can any of other subscribers confirm, that this is fixed too?

Comment 27

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/aa6de4b5b0db
fix Thunderbird startup crash when GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 is set. r=jorgk

Comment 28

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Comment on attachment 9091741 [details] [diff] [review]
bug1514605_GTK_USE_PORTAL.patch

Shouldn't hurt.

Comment 29

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

TB 70 beta 2:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-beta/rev/366991cd4304a6d424f25a10d8899b83e2ae8469

Comment 30

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

TB 68.1.1 or TB 68.2:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-esr68/rev/d741c4f6b95c5f3e063738d171b2fccea3695263

Comment 31

[Daniele "Mte90" Scasciafratte]

I am having this issue with the latest version 70.0b1 but I don't see any release for 70.0b2 so basically I cannot use thunderbird.
I can confirm that using the nightly there are no problems.

Comment 32

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

We'll release TB 70 beta 2 early next week.