250646 - Segmentation Fault when user account who is trying to start is in the LDAP

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Tomislav Vrebac]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Thunderbird/0.7.1

When users are stored in a LDAP v3 Directory (not in flat files) thunderbird
0.7.1 is not starting. It causes Segmentation Fault.
"./run-mozilla.sh: line 451:  4160 Segmentation fault      "$prog" ${1+"$@"}"
If users are stored in flat files it works fine.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start thunderbird
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
./run-mozilla.sh: line 451:  4160 Segmentation fault      "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

Expected Results:  
It should start my favourite e-mail client :-)

My configuration:
Debian Testing (updated weekly, latest 20040703)
kernel version 2.4.26; 2.6.6
slapd version 2.1.23

Comment 1

[Martin Adler]

I have got the exact same problem. Once providing a /etc/passwd entry again,
thunderbird starts fine. But if I only authenticate my username against an LDAP
dir with pam_ldap/nss_ldap, I get the segfault.

Using Thunderbird 1.0 BTW. Firefox starts fine.

Greetings,

Martin

Comment 2

[Martin Adler]

Thunderbird now works fine! Used the gentoo ebuild and it now works.

Greetings,

Martin

Comment 3

[Scott MacGregor]

cool!

Comment 4

[Martin Adler]

I am expiriencing this again. 

At home for example, 1.5 pre-built never worked. Gave same segfaults as above.

At work, 1.5 pre-built used to work until 2 days ago. Started giving me the same error. The wierd thing is, I can not track down anything that has changed between working and not working. To resolve the issue, I compiled TB with the ebuild. But this should not be the solution.

I can confirm that if I add the users (at home or at work) to the passwd file, TB starts fine. I am guessing that it has something to to with the ldap libs *shrug*??

Hope this can be tracked down somehow...

Comment 5

[Martin Adler]

I have tracked this down. If nscd is started, thunderbird works. If not, it segfaults. At least on my setups...

Hope this helps!

Comment 6

[Martin Adler]

(In reply to comment #5)
This is with 1.5.0.9 ... So this is not fixed.