Thunderbird won't open

[DarkMind]

Each time I start thunderbird it crashes, and asks me to send bug report to Mozilla team, what I do... but no fix released

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: thunderbird 12.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: ipsissimus 1727 F.... pulseaudio
                      ipsissimus 16433 F.... TeamViewer.exe
BuildID: 20120430060637
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf9ff8000 irq 47'
   Mixer name : 'Nvidia MCP77/78 HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0663,104319a3,00100001 HDA:10de0006,10de0101,00100000'
   Controls : 36
   Simple ctrls : 18
Channel: release
Date: Tue May 15 20:29:29 2012
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
IncompatibleExtensions:
 EDS Contact Integration - <email address hidden>, Version=0.3.9, minVersion=7.0, maxVersion=11.0a1, Location=app-global, Type=extension, Active=Yes
 Messaging Menu and Unity Launcher integration - <email address hidden>, Version=0.9.3, minVersion=3.3a1pre, maxVersion=12.0a1, Location=app-global, Type=extension, Active=Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
IpRoute:
 default via 10.2.2.123 dev eth0 proto static
 10.2.2.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 10.2.2.190 metric 1
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=12.0.1/20120430060637
RunningIncompatibleAddons: True
SourcePackage: thunderbird
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 11/07/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 209
dmi.board.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
dmi.board.name: G50V
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr209:bd11/07/2008:svnASUSTeKComputerInc.:pnG50V:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:rnG50V:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:ct10:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.name: G50V
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. Sometimes Thunderbird extensions can conflict. Could you please try disabling your extensions with 'thunderbird -safe-mode' and see if that works? If it does, try reenabling the extensions one by one until you find the problematic one.

[Michael Markstaller (makki)]

Maybe related, maybe not: thunderbird crashes since approx. a week 100% within 5 secs (well after upgrade to 12.04!) with some "GLX stuff". (do I need this for reading plaintext-emails?)
No addons, all disabled..

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Add-ons: <email address hidden>:12.0.1,<email address hidden>:12.0.1,{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}:12.0.1
BuildID: 20120430053815
CrashTime: 1337131188
EMCheckCompatibility: true
Email: <email address hidden>
FramePoisonBase: 00000000f0dea000
FramePoisonSize: 4096
InstallTime: 1336586937
Notes: OpenGL: Tungsten Graphics, Inc -- Mesa DRI Intel(R) Sandybridge Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2 -- 3.0 Mesa 8.0.2 -- texture_from_pixmap

ProductID: {3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6}
ProductName: Thunderbird
ReleaseChannel: release
SecondsSinceLastCrash: 658
StartupTime: 1337131175
Theme: classic/1.0
Throttleable: 1
Vendor:
Version: 12.0.1

This report also contains technical information about the state of the application when it crashed.
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First my nvidia-driver didnt work , Vostro 3750 with dual-graphics, (really, I dont know if it ever did work before, I dont need any 2d/3D acceleration at all)
Then after many tries to fix it I removed nvidia-current and since then the intel glx-driver seems to work:
 glxinfo | grep version
server glx version string: 1.4
client glx version string: 1.4

Thunderbird still crashes :( Is there any way to just disable this glx-stuff in TB?

[Kai Deponte (kai-deponte)]

For some weeks I had similar crashes and sent endless crash reports. Then found, that the crashes were related to clicking on certain mail-folders.
Digging into .thunderbird.... I found that those folders contained dublications of sub-folders. Before I had cleaned up my mails and TB didn't organise the folders in .thunderbird/.../mail... accordingly: some folders were doubled, some were kept with old name, some not shifted...

'hope that helps someone

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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