I have a similar problem. I'm adding what may be more details to aid in solving. I use LDAP for authentication and I have nscd installed. Thunderbird has been working without issue until yesterday when I changed hosts in nsswitch.conf to use ldap as shown below;
Changed:
hosts: files dns [NOTFOUND=return]
to the following;
hosts: files ldap dns [NOTFOUND=return]
This change resulted in seg faults with no other warning. I was able to create an alternate user profile and that would work, but when trying to get back to the current user, the seg fault would return. Once I changed nsswitch.conf back to using dns, the app starts without issue.
My release;
Linux bari.iqanalog.com 2.6.32-33-generic #72-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 29 21:07:13 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS"
Thunderbird 3.1.13
I have a similar problem. I'm adding what may be more details to aid in solving. I use LDAP for authentication and I have nscd installed. Thunderbird has been working without issue until yesterday when I changed hosts in nsswitch.conf to use ldap as shown below;
Changed:
hosts: files dns [NOTFOUND=return]
to the following;
hosts: files ldap dns [NOTFOUND=return]
This change resulted in seg faults with no other warning. I was able to create an alternate user profile and that would work, but when trying to get back to the current user, the seg fault would return. Once I changed nsswitch.conf back to using dns, the app starts without issue.
My release; RELEASE= 10.04 CODENAME= lucid DESCRIPTION= "Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS"
Linux bari.iqanalog.com 2.6.32-33-generic #72-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 29 21:07:13 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_
DISTRIB_
DISTRIB_
Thunderbird 3.1.13