thunderbird-bin crashed with SIGSEGV in __kernel_vsyscall()

[Roger Hart]

Binary package hint: thunderbird

I haven't programmed anything on a computer for the past 15 years so I apologize for being so rusty that I can't give more detailed information.

First, Thunderbird crashed as soon as I opened it after installing it, shortly after installing Gutsy Beta. (Thunderbird was set to collect mail on startup (as it had been when I had previously used it successfully in Feisty). On checking root I found that Thunderbird had been installed in an entirely separate directory 'thunderbird_05.trash'. I tried removing the directory and reinstalling Thunderbird and this time was successful.

Thunderbird ran correctly five times then crashed again. I tried all my email accounts in KMail and everything ran correctly, so I didn't think it could be caused by my internet connection settings or firewall (hardware).

I entered information into the Lightning extension, without first accessing mail, successfully. I tried a contact and that seemed to work OK. As soon as Thunderbird attempted to download mail again, it crashed.

The present crash report occurred after logging into Gutsy, following a shutdown. Thunderbird was not loading this time.

Hope you can make sense of this.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Mon Oct 1 09:39:05 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin
NonfreeKernelModules: cdrom
Package: thunderbird 2.0.0.6-0ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin
ProcCwd: /home/roger
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: thunderbird
StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 raise () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Title: thunderbird-bin crashed with SIGSEGV in __kernel_vsyscall()
Uname: Linux roger-desktop 2.6.22-12-generic #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 18:11:30 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev scanner video

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:~nsUrlClassifierDBService (this=0x8ce22c8) at nsUrlClassifierDBService.cpp:846
nsUrlClassifierDBService::Release (this=0x8ce22c8) at nsUrlClassifierDBService.cpp:809
nsUrlClassifierDBService::GetInstance () at nsUrlClassifierDBService.cpp:824
nsUrlClassifierDBServiceConstructor (aOuter=0x0, aIID=@0xbfc309f4, aResult=0xbfc30958) at nsToolkitCompsModule.cpp:118
nsGenericFactory::CreateInstance (this=0x8ce2788, aOuter=0x0, aIID=@0xbfc309f4, aResult=0xbfc30958) at nsGenericFactory.cpp:79

[Martin Henze (martin-henze)]

Same problem here, I tried deleting the training file, but no chance.

[Matthew Tighe (tighem)]

Happened to me today too, after the big update this morning. Not sure if Thunderbird was in the list of updates or not.

[Martin Henze (martin-henze)]

It seems to be a thunderbird problem as I had the same problems with the mozilla.com version. I'm now with 1.5 and have no problems.

In my oppinion, this problem only occures if there is a huge amount of incoming mails (ap. > 50).

Need the devs / maintainers more details / information?

@Matthew: Thunderbird got updated yesterday, but the changelog only tells about dependencies.

[Martin Henze (martin-henze)]

Do you (Roger, Matthew) use the Tango Icons theme?

I am, and if you are too, then this is most probably a duplicate of #119836.

[Matthew Tighe (tighem)]

I do not use the tango icons, so I don't think it's related.

[TheGeneral (torge)]

I'm using the Tango-Theme and every time when Mail is received (either on startup or while TB is running) TB crashes.

[Page (repager)]

Don't know if this will help the apport file may tell you something, I copied my .mozilla-thunderbird file into 7.10 from 7.04 so that may have compounded the problems - the version shown in 'about' is 2.0.0.6 - should read 2.0.0.8?

[TheGeneral (torge)]

I fixed the problems by deactivating and deinstallting the nice Tango
Icon Theme for Thunderbird. With the default theme it works.

Page schrieb:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 138540 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138540
>
> Don't know if this will help the apport file may tell you something, I
> copied my .mozilla-thunderbird file into 7.10 from 7.04 so that may have
> compounded the problems - the version shown in 'about' is 2.0.0.6 -
> should read 2.0.0.8?
>
>
> ** Attachment added: "_usr_lib_thunderbird_thunderbird-bin.1000.crash"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10168264/_usr_lib_thunderbird_thunderbird-bin.1000.crash
>
>