thunderbird segfaults with the latest appmenu-gtk

[David Barth]

TB consistently crashes with the lastest build on Lucid or Maverick. On Lucid, this is a stable thunderbird, so it's really a appmenu-gtk change, as the stack trace shows.

[David Barth (dbarth)]

Package versions:
appmenu-gtk-0.1.3-0lucid1 0
thunderbird-3.0.5+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

[David Barth (dbarth)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00a62b74 in g_object_set () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00a62b74 in g_object_set () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#1 0x0042766a in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#2 0x00a6c3ac in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__PARAM ()
   from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#3 0x00a5d1aa in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#4 0x00a7517d in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#5 0x00a767e4 in g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#6 0x00a76f52 in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#7 0x00a61821 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#8 0x00a5df2f in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#9 0x00a62a50 in g_object_set_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#10 0x00a62bd6 in g_object_set () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#11 0x01b597d5 in app_menu_bridge_set_show_local (bridge=0xb7adb4c0, local=0)
    at bridge.c:249
#12 0x01b59758 in org_ayatana_AppMenu_Registrar_register_window_async_callback
    (proxy=0xb7a7dd80, call=0x1, user_data=0xb3a9d3d8)
    at application-menu-registrar-client.h:43
#13 0x00ceb17f in ?? () from /usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.so.2
#14 0x00d1a791 in ?? () from /lib/libdbus-1.so.3
#15 0x00d0a3c6 in ?? () from /lib/libdbus-1.so.3
#16 0x00d0c992 in dbus_connection_dispatch () from /lib/libdbus-1.so.3
#17 0x00ce692d in ?? () from /usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.so.2
#18 0x00ae3265 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#19 0x00ae7088 in ?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
#20 0x00ae7268 in g_main_context_iteration () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#21 0x0823ddec in ?? ()
#22 0x0823df4a in ?? ()
#23 0x0026a014 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird-3.0.5/libxpcom_core.so
#24 0x00238f52 in NS_ProcessNextEvent_P(nsIThread*, int) ()
   from /usr/lib/thunderbird-3.0.5/libxpcom_core.so
#25 0x0823e06e in ?? ()
#26 0x08742220 in ?? ()
#27 0x08080c3e in ?? ()
#28 0x0807c950 in ?? ()
#29 0x0121fbd6 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#30 0x0807c7f1 in ?? ()
(gdb)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package appmenu-gtk - 0.1.3-0ubuntu3

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appmenu-gtk (0.1.3-0ubuntu3) maverick; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/lp_610083.patch
    - Blacklist thunderbird until we can find a proper fix to prevent
      thunderbird from crashing on startup. (LP: #610083)
 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:16:54 -0400

[knarf (launchpad-ubuntu-f)]

This crash is not limited to Thunderbird 3.x: Firefox 4.x hangs on startup while Seamonkey 2.x crashes on startup due to appmenu-gtk.

The affected seamonkey identifies itself as follows:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b4pre) Gecko/20100815 SeaMonkey/2.1a3pre

Firefox 4.x:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b4pre) Gecko/20100816 Minefield/4.0b4pre

Remove the appmenu-gtk package to restore these programs back to functionality. Maybe it is a better idea to blacklist all recent xulrunner apps?