thunderbird 2.0.0.6 crashes in libgklayout.so caused by using MS Tahoma font

[Krzysztof Foltman]

Binary package hint: mozilla-thunderbird

On display of a particular message in preview pane (I think), when run with -g option:

(gecko:12865): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Tahoma Bold 9.7490234375'

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1222392128 (LWP 12865)]
0xb4f47a9c in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libgklayout.so
(gdb) bt
#0 0xb4f47a9c in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libgklayout.so
#1 0x08430aa0 in ?? ()
#2 0xbffe3cec in ?? ()
#3 0xbffe3c20 in ?? ()
#4 0xb6c96b06 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libnecko.so
#5 0xbffe3d58 in ?? ()
#6 0xbffe3dd0 in ?? ()
#7 0x02003ae0 in ?? ()
#8 0xbffe4398 in ?? ()
#9 0xbffe3d50 in ?? ()
#10 0x00000000 in ?? ()

info linkmap:
08f3e638 /usr/lib/thunderbird/libmozjs.so
08b0a390 /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxpcom.so
0928ff18 /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxpcom_core.so
09324908 /usr/lib/libplds4.so.0d
0853d080 /usr/lib/libplc4.so.0d
08c59db0 /usr/lib/libnspr4.so.0d
087cf940 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
08f3e638 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2
08b0a390 /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
0928ff18 /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
09324908 /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0
0853d080 /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
08c59db0 /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0
087cf940 /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
08f3e638 /usr/lib/libXext.so.6
08b0a390 /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1
0928ff18 /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1
09324908 /usr/lib/libXi.so.6
0853d080 /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2
08c59db0 /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1
087cf940 /usr/lib/libXcomposite.so.1
08f3e638 /usr/lib/libXdamage.so.1
08b0a390 /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
0928ff18 /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2
09324908 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
0853d080 /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3
08c59db0 /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
087cf940 /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0
08f3e638 /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
08b0a390 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6
0928ff18 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
09324908 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
0853d080 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
08c59db0 /lib/ld-linux.so.2
087cf940 /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0
08f3e638 /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
08b0a390 /usr/lib/libz.so.1
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0853d080 /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0
08c59db0 /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6
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09324908 /usr/lib/gconv/ISO8859-1.so
0853d080 /usr/lib/gconv/UTF-16.so
08c59db0 /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libmail.so
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08f3e638 /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libmyspell.so
08b0a390 /usr/lib/libhunspell-1.1.so.0
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0853d080 /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libnecko.so
08c59db0 /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libi18n.so
087cf940 /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libxpconnect.so
08f866b8 /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libjar50.so
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0861cc68 /usr/lib/thunderbird/libgkgfx.so
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08b0a0e8 /usr/lib/libXt.so.6
093e2578 /usr/lib/libSM.so.6
0893a788 /usr/lib/libICE.so.6
08c22d28 /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libclearlooks.so
08f0fab8 /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libtoolkitcomps.so
092bc598 /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libembedcomponents.so
092db980 /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libcaps.so
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0967c710 /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libsystem-pref.so
08a079a8 /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libappcomps.so
08d68678 /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libnsappshell.so
088ba098 /usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4
08d3e070 /usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0
094ee828 /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0
0928fe98 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/librt.so.1
09092430 /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libcommandlines.so
08700028 /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libgfx_gtk.so
08d3ea60 /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0
087f67c0 /usr/lib/libXft.so.2
0854a860 /usr/lib/thunderbird/libgfxpsshar.so
086e57e0 /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.so
0928d918 /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libdocshell.so
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08aadd28 /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0
08f3e638 /usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0
08b0a390 /usr/lib/libbonobo-activation.so.4
0928ff18 /usr/lib/libesd.so.0
09324908 /usr/lib/libaudiofile.so.0
0853d080 /lib/libpopt.so.0
08c59db0 /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
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08f866b8 /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3
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094ee7c8 /usr/lib/libavahi-glib.so.1
09432e00 /usr/lib/libavahi-common.so.3
08b0a0e8 /usr/lib/libavahi-client.so.3
093e2578 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libresolv.so.2
08e2d568 /lib/libselinux.so.1
08c22d28 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1
08f0fab8 /usr/lib/libORBitCosNaming-2.so.0
092bc598 /usr/lib/libasound.so.2
08a8e418 /usr/lib/libtasn1.so.3
096923e0 /usr/lib/libgpg-error.so.0
0967c710 /usr/lib/libgcrypt.so.11
08b339b8 /lib/libsepol.so.1
08553b68 /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libgklayout.so
09000470 /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libwebbrwsr.so
0859d7f0 /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libpipboot.so
09465ea0 /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libuconv.so
0928fe20 /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libremoteservice.so
093e2530 /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libhtmlpars.so
08e1e8e0 /usr/lib/pango/1.6.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so
08d3ea60 /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libeditor.so
087f67c0 /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libtxmgr.so
0854a860 /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libspellchecker.so
086e57e0 /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libcomposer.so
08632eb8 /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libmork.so
091643a8 /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libpipnss.so
08ddd338 /usr/lib/libssl3.so.0d
08d3e990 /usr/lib/libsmime3.so.0d
08f00020 /usr/lib/libnss3.so.0d
08d91358 /usr/lib/libsoftokn3.so.0d
08b0a390 /usr/lib/nss/libfreebl3.so
0928ff18 /usr/lib/thunderbird/libnssckbi.so
085afe50 /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libmailcomps.so
08dd0d70 /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libmsgsmime.so
08c59db0 /lib/libnss_mdns4_minimal.so.2
08d68678 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_dns.so.2

It happens consistently every time I start Thunderbird. The first time it happened, it was after displaying one particular message.

[Krzysztof Foltman (kfoltman)]

Just a side note: I use Ubuntu Gutsy, packages last upgraded today from the Irish mirror.

foltman@szarak:/usr/lib/thunderbird$ dpkg -l thunderbird
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Nazwa Wersja Opis
+++-=================================-=================================-==================================================================================
ii thunderbird 2.0.0.6-0ubuntu1 mail/news client with RSS and integrated spam filter support

Please tell me if there's any other crash-related information needed.

[Krzysztof Foltman (kfoltman)]

Seems that the bug was caused by using (apparently incompatible) MS Tahoma font copied to the font directory by me. Deleting the font has fixed the problem completely.

Although I doubt anyone would try using Tahoma in Linux, the problem may potentially appear with other broken fonts, so maybe it's worth investigating, maybe not.

[Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf) (hmontoliu)]

Thank you kfoltman for your report,

we are closing it as you have found the solution to the problem. However you can reopen it at any time if you have more related info. Also we will reopen it too if this problem arises to any other user in the future.

Again thank you.

[Martey Dodoo (martey)]

I am reopening this bug because I have run into the same issue. i am also Ubuntu Gutsy.

[Steve Mc Gregor (stevemcgregor)]

i run into the same issue, deleting tahoma fonts fix it. But it should be noted that Tahoma font was working perfectly before Gutsy.

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

Can you please retest this bug with a supported Thunderbird version? Thank you!

[Krzysztof Foltman (kfoltman)]

It doesn't crash in Ubuntu 12.04.1.