1610460 - Thunderbird immediately segfaults (arch linux, self built)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[odnehel]

Attachment: gdb.txt

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0

Steps to reproduce:

Updated my OS (Arch linux), then try to start. I've asked other people who has updated and they don't have this issue. So it is definently a me issue. But even if I move .thunderbird to .thunderbird_bak and start it doesn't work. thunderbird --safe-mode segfaults, reinstalling doesn't work, so I'm at a loss... hope you can help, I hate having to open citrix to get a windows environment with outlook 2007....

Actual results:

$ thunderbird
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Expected results:

Thunderbird should open.

Comment 1

[odnehel]

Attachment: journalctl.txt

Some relevant output from journalctl.

Comment 2

[odnehel]

Attachment: strace.txt

Strace output

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

tried safe mode?
thunderbird -safe-mode

Comment 4

[odnehel]

Yes.

$ thunderbird --safe-mode
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Comment 5

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

You could always download in install directly from https://www.thunderbird.net and see if that works. Sounds like some libaries somewhere are messed up on your system,

Comment 6

[odnehel]

@mkmelin So I'm using Arch Linux, and I've tried building from the source with ASP source there. Which results in the segfault. I can try to do this with the source from thunderbird.net, is there some instructions that I can follow so that I don't mess up the building? It does take a while to build....

Comment 7

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

For building, see https://developer.thunderbird.net/the-basics/building-thunderbird
But probably easiest to just download the pre-built thing, untar the tar.bz2 and run it.

Comment 8

[odnehel]

@mkmelin, I've downloaded and extracted the tar.bz2 and opening the thunderbird there works... I'm guessing that I should take this back to arch linux then. I also tried exchanging the libxul.so with the one in my system and it still works.... do you have any suggestions of other things to try?

Comment 9

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Nothing much we can do then I'm afraid, and unfortunately I don't have any other suggestions.

Comment 10

[odnehel]

Ok, got help from the arch linux forum and it was an outdated sqlite that was making issues. I had 3.25 and when I updated to the repo version 3.30 it worked. Thanks for the help.

Comment 11

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

odnehel, thanks for the update. Yet another of sqlite problems