524017 - Segmentation fault after paste or upon startup

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Glenn Story]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.13) Gecko/2009080315 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.13 GTB5
Build Identifier: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/2009-10-22-03-comm-1.9.1/thunderbird-3.0pre.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2

When I try to paste some text into a new message, Thunderbird crashes.  When I try to start it again, it immediately crashes again.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a new message.
2.Paste some text into it.
-- Thunderbird crashes with segmentation fault -- 
3. Restart thunderbird.
It crashes immediately.
Actual Results:  
story@us-sjc2-641 -bash [532]$ mv .mozilla-thunderbird .mozilla-thunderbird-bad2
story@us-sjc2-641 -bash [533]$ cd -
-bash: cd: /home/glenns/.mozilla-thunderbird: No such file or directory
story@us-sjc2-641 -bash [534]$ cd /home/glenns/Download/thunderbird/
story@us-sjc2-641 -bash [535]$ thunderbird
Warning: Warning:  Using guessed timezone
  America/Los_Angeles (UTC-0800/-0700).
This ZoneInfo timezone seems to match the operating system timezone this year.
This ZoneInfo timezone was chosen based on the operating system timezone
identifier "/etc/timezone: America/Los_Angeles".
/usr/lib/thunderbird/run-mozilla.sh: line 131:  8087 Segmentation fault      "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
story@us-sjc2-641 -bash [536]$ thunderbird
Warning: Warning:  Using guessed timezone
  America/Los_Angeles (UTC-0800/-0700).
This ZoneInfo timezone seems to match the operating system timezone this year.
This ZoneInfo timezone was chosen based on the operating system timezone
identifier "/etc/timezone: America/Los_Angeles".
/usr/lib/thunderbird/run-mozilla.sh: line 131:  8156 Segmentation fault      "$prog" ${1+"$@"}


Expected Results:  
um, the program should not segfault?

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1.Create a new message.
> 2.Paste some text into it.
> -- Thunderbird crashes with segmentation fault -- 
> 3. Restart thunderbird.

Does the crash reporter show up ?

Comment 2

[Glenn Story]

(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > Steps to Reproduce:
> > 1.Create a new message.
> > 2.Paste some text into it.
> > -- Thunderbird crashes with segmentation fault -- 
> > 3. Restart thunderbird.
> 
> Does the crash reporter show up ?

No it does not.

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Glenn does the build from PPA shows the same issue ?

Comment 4

[Glenn Story]

Sorry, not sure what you mean by "PPA".

Comment 5

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Sorry, not sure what you mean by "PPA".

https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-daily/+archive/ppa Builds done by the ubuntu team.

Comment 6

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

If you use PPA and the issue is present then you'll be able to get us a stack trace by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs#Obtain%20a%20backtrace%20from%20an%20apport%20crash%20report%20%28using%20gdb%29 .

Comment 7

[Glenn Story]

It has stopped failing even with the build from the Mozilla site.  I've seen this happen with this symptom once before.  As a hardware friend of mine says, "Problems that go away by themselves, come back by themselves.  

I will hold off installing the Ubuntu build unless/until I see the failure again.  

As for this bug, you can leave it open for a while or close it as unreproducible as you think appropriate.

Comment 8

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Can't do much with that for now. Glenn feel free to reopen if it comes back