718744 - Thunderbird 9.0.1 aborts with "failed to create drawable" on Fedora 14 Linux

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[William Bader]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1
Build ID: 20111220165912

Steps to reproduce:

Thunderbird auto-updated itself to 9.0.1.
Ever since then, when I try to run Thunderbird, I get the error "failed to create drawable" and Thunderbird does not open.
I have Fedora 14 Linux with all of the components (except libwnck) updated to their current version.


Actual results:

Thunderbird gives an error to the command line instead of running.


Expected results:

Thunderbird should have opened a window.

Comment 1

[Hashem Masoud]

(In reply to William Bader from comment #0)
I think you should report this to the Fedora developers.

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

It only gives one error, can you copy and paste the error here ?

Comment 3

[William Bader]

Thanks for the replies.

Hashem -- The Fedora developers maintain Fedora releases for only one year.  Fedora 14 was released in late 2010 and maintenance finished in late 2011, so the Fedora project will no longer accept reports against Fedora 14.  As the original report shows, I am currently running firefox 9.0.1, so I think that my OS is good and still current enough.

Ludovic -- Here is a cut-and-paste.  I'm not sure how much it will help.  If you want, I can run ldd or run it with debug options.

$ uname -a
Linux scslaptop30.scs.com 2.6.35.14-106.fc14.i686 #1 SMP Wed Nov 23 13:57:33 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
$ /u3/gnu/thunderbird/thunderbird
failed to create drawable
$ time /u3/gnu/thunderbird/thunderbird
failed to create drawable

real    0m0.096s
user    0m0.057s
sys     0m0.020s
$ /u3/gnu/thunderbird/thunderbird --version
 Thunderbird 9.0.1
$ failed to create drawable

$ ls -l /u3/gnu/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin 
-rwxr-xr-x 1 william william 36840 Jan 15 18:48 /u3/gnu/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin
$

When I run thunderbird, nothing opens or even flashes on the screen.

Regards,
William
http://williambader.com/

Comment 4

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

William we'll need a stack trace (see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StackTraces).

Comment 5

[William Bader]

It is exiting normally, not crashing, so I don't get a core file.
If you have a suggestion for a break point, I could run gdb.
I installed all of the debug info files for the shared libraries provided by Fedora.
Here is what happens when I use -g:
$ ./thunderbird -g
./run-mozilla.sh -g ./thunderbird-bin
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/u3/gnu/thunderbird
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/u3/gnu/thunderbird:/u3/gnu/thunderbird/plugins:/u3/gnu/thunderbird
DISPLAY=:0.0
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/u3/gnu/thunderbird:/u3/gnu/thunderbird
     LIBRARY_PATH=
       SHLIB_PATH=/u3/gnu/thunderbird:/u3/gnu/thunderbird
          LIBPATH=/u3/gnu/thunderbird:/u3/gnu/thunderbird
       ADDON_PATH=
      MOZ_PROGRAM=./thunderbird-bin
      MOZ_TOOLKIT=
        moz_debug=1
     moz_debugger=
moz_debugger_args=
/u3/gnu/thunderbird/run-mozilla.sh: line 116: type: ddd: not found
/usr/bin/gdb  --args ./thunderbird-bin
GNU gdb (GDB) Fedora (7.2-52.fc14)
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i686-redhat-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from /u/u3/gnu/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin...Missing separate debuginfo for /u/u3/gnu/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /u/u3/gnu/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin 
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Missing separate debuginfo for /u/u3/gnu/thunderbird/libnspr4.so
Missing separate debuginfo for /u/u3/gnu/thunderbird/libplc4.so
Missing separate debuginfo for /u/u3/gnu/thunderbird/libplds4.so
Missing separate debuginfo for /u/u3/gnu/thunderbird/libxpcom_core.so
Missing separate debuginfo for /u/u3/gnu/thunderbird/libxul.so
Missing separate debuginfo for /u3/gnu/thunderbird/libsmime3.so
Missing separate debuginfo for /u3/gnu/thunderbird/libssl3.so
Missing separate debuginfo for /u3/gnu/thunderbird/libnss3.so
Missing separate debuginfo for /u3/gnu/thunderbird/libnssutil3.so
Missing separate debuginfo for /u3/gnu/thunderbird/libldap60.so
Missing separate debuginfo for /u3/gnu/thunderbird/libprldap60.so
Missing separate debuginfo for /u3/gnu/thunderbird/libldif60.so
Missing separate debuginfo for /u3/gnu/thunderbird/libmozsqlite3.so
Missing separate debuginfo for /u3/gnu/thunderbird/libmozalloc.so
Missing separate debuginfo for /u/u3/gnu/thunderbird/libxpcom.so
Detaching after fork from child process 23875.
failed to create drawable
Missing separate debuginfo for /u/u3/gnu/thunderbird/components/libmozgnome.so
Missing separate debuginfo for /u/u3/gnu/thunderbird/components/libdbusservice.so

Program exited with code 01.
(gdb)

Comment 6

[William Bader]

Thunderbird 10 works OK.
I renamed my thunderbird directory and unpacked the Linux thunderbird-10.0.tar.bz2 in its place, and it seems to be running OK.
William

Comment 7

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Thanks for the update.