353792 - Have to use "force quit" on Mac OS, Thunderbird often does not quit properly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 341647

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Martin Burger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Macintosh/20060909)

I try to quit Thunderbird in the regular way ("quit application" etc). But the process will not end. The main window cloeses, but the process runs "for ever".

Only "force quit" ends the running process.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Thunderbird
2. Wait some time (a few minutes)
3. Try to quit via Thunderbird -> Quit Thunderbird

Actual Results:  
Main window disappears, but icon in dock does not go away. Process is still running (can be seen via ps command on console).

Expected Results:  
Process should terminate successfully.

I will attach a ktrace log file. Other hang bugs: Bug 324196, Bug 326629, Bug 324325, Bug 340647

Comment 1

[Martin Burger]

Attachment: Dump of ktrace.out file (txt format)

The kdump dump shows many calls to gettimeofday(...) and getattrlist(...)

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

How many folders do you have in Thunderbird? I think this is a dupe of bug 341647. (OS X can't handle too many open FDs.)

Comment 3

[Martin Burger]

I have about 70 folders in four different accounts.

Comment 4

[Adam Guthrie]

Yeah, this is a dupe, then. You could try always setting the ulimit as shown in bug 341647 at startup or something.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 341647 ***

Comment 5

[Martin Burger]

Are you sure? Have you looked at the ktrace dump (see attachment 239645 [details])? There is no single instance of a "Too many open files" error...

Comment 6

[Adam Guthrie]

It's still hanging doing the same number of operations, though. Can you set "ulimit -S -n 2048" from a terminal and then launch Thunderbird by doing "/Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/thunderbird -safe-mode" and see if you still hang? If you do, then this bug should be reopened.

Comment 7

[Martin Burger]

Thank you, that helps. Another issue is gone: I often had to close the compose window after sending a message. The message appeared at the sent folder but the "sending.." dialog did not close.