511363 - Clipboard paste attempt crashes, exits Thunderbird, loses work document

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 495392

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Paul Lutus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090803 Fedora/3.5.2-2.fc11 Firefox/3.5.2
Build Identifier: 3.0b3

While composing a new message, attempting to paste text into a message being composed, either with Ctrl+V or by using the menu entry Edit ... Paste, causes Thunderbird to exit abruptly, losing the current document. This only happens if there is actually text on the clipboard, it doesn't happen if the clipboard is empty.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Begin composing a message.
2. Copy text to the system clipboard.
3. Paste the text into the work document using either Ctrl+V or menu item Edit ... Paste.
Actual Results:  
Thunderbird exits abruptly, losing the work document.

Expected Results:  
Paste of text into the document.

OS: Fedora 11

Comment 1

[Paul Lutus]

Addendum: This bug turns out to only take effect with text originating in some source applications, for example any Java program, but not KWrite as an example.

Comment 2

[Chris Sims]

I can confirm this bug on thunderbird version 2.0.0.23 (20090817) running on Ubuntu 9.04, 2.6.28-15-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 18 19:25:34 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

It sounds like the same bug reported by several users on the mozillazine thread
http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?comments_parentId=372659&forumId=1

In my case also only certain applications cause the problem.  Pastes from Jabref (a Java application) cause the problem.  Pastes from Kate do not.  Also, if Thunderbird crashes because of such a paste, then Thunderbird is reopened, a new message composition window is opened, and the paste is then repeated (with no intervening new copy command in Jabref), the paste executes correctly, with no crash.  It seems that only the first paste after a copy command produces this result.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

very likely a duplicate. a stack will help. see
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Mozilla+Crash+Reporter?s=crash

Comment 4

[Chris Sims]

Thunderbird crashes and throws up no bug report dialog.  There is also no crash report in .mozilla or .mozilla-thunderbird.  I am using firefox 3.5.2, and get no crash pasting into forms (like this one) in firefox --- for me, it's only thunderbird that produces the problem.

If there's another way to get the information you want than via the Crash Reporter, or a way to get Crash Reporter invoked when thunderbird crashes, let me know.

Comment 5

[Matěj Cepl]

Actually lack of backtrace, persuades me that this is a bug for which I have duplicate at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525741 Even though the reporter of our bug did all what should give us a nice backtrace we've got nothing. Also our bug is specific to copying from java as well.

Any thoughts on how to debug this?

Comment 6

[tafit3]

Thunderbird crashes every time, when I paste (Ctrl+V) something that was copied from jEdit. This does not happen if I use Ctrl+Shift+V. I'm not sure if the problem is with jEdit or Thunderbird.

Some other reports of this bug:

http://community.jedit.org/?q=node/view/4325

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-mozillateam-bugs/2009-July/081527.html

Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (20090812)
jEdit 4.3pre12 (java: build 1.6.0-b105)
GNU/Linux 2.6.30 i686

Comment 7

[Martin Stránský [:stransky] (ni? me)]

A duplicate of bug 495392