Thunderbird crashes with GTK_USE_PORTAL environment variable.

[Ian Turner]

Crash happens at startup, even for a new profile, as long as any e-mail accounts are configured.

In profile creation mode, the crash happens as soon as an e-mail account is added.

If all e-mail accounts are removed from prefs.js, then Thunderbird doesn't crash.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: thunderbird 1:60.4.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-43.46-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-43-generic x86_64
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC1: vectro 2619 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: vectro 2619 F.... pulseaudio
BuildID: 20190116085154
Channel: Unavailable
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Sun Jan 27 06:55:37 2019
DefaultProfileExtensions: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
DefaultProfileIncompatibleExtensions: Unavailable (corrupt or non-existant compatibility.ini or extensions.sqlite)
DefaultProfileLocales: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
DefaultProfilePrefSources: prefs.js
DefaultProfileThemes: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
 # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-03-23 (309 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20180306.1)
IpRoute:
 default via 172.20.0.1 dev wlo1 proto dhcp metric 600
 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlo1 scope link metric 1000
 172.20.0.0/20 dev wlo1 proto kernel scope link src 172.20.2.18 metric 600
MostRecentCrashID: bp-d74e2e85-8327-42af-bce7-559720190127
Profile1Extensions: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
Profile1IncompatibleExtensions: Unavailable (corrupt or non-existant compatibility.ini or extensions.sqlite)
Profile1Locales: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
Profile1PrefSources: prefs.js
Profile1Prefs:
 extensions.lastAppVersion: "60.4.0" (prefs.js)
 network.cookie.prefsMigrated: true (prefs.js)
 places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages: 104858 (prefs.js)
Profile1Themes: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
Profiles:
 Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=60.4.0/20190116085154
 Profile1 - LastVersion=60.4.0/20190116085154
RunningIncompatibleAddons: False
SourcePackage: thunderbird
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 01/25/2018
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: L78 Ver. 01.43
dmi.board.name: 2101
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: KBC Version 16.3C
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrL78Ver.01.43:bd01/25/2018:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPProBook640G1:pvrA3009DD10303:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn2101:rvrKBCVersion16.3C:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.family: 103C_5336AN G=N L=BUS B=HP S=PRO
dmi.product.name: HP ProBook 640 G1
dmi.product.version: A3009DD10303
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard

[Elvis-angelaccio-o (elvis-angelaccio-o)]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0

Steps to reproduce:

Run `GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 thunderbird`

Actual results:

Thunderbird crashes on startup

Expected results:

Thunderbird should not crash, or at least fail gracefully if running with GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 is not supported.

[Elvis-angelaccio-o (elvis-angelaccio-o)]

Note that I cannot post a backtrace because archlinux doesn't ship debug symbols. But given that this crash is 100% reproducible I hope that someone else will be able to.

[Vseerror (vseerror)]

If you cannot get symbols with archlinux then please get a backtrace using https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/60.3.3/linux-x86_64/en-US/

[Elvis-angelaccio-o (elvis-angelaccio-o)]

Thanks for the link, it doesn't crash using that package. I'll report the crash downstream.

[Ian Turner (vectro)]

Also affects Arch Linux; see here: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/61134

The reporter there said that "It does not crash if I use the upstream build", but I have not tried that.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a backtrace following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Murz (murznn)]

Seems this issue will be fixed only in Thunderbird 68 version, here is issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1471420

[Murz (murznn)]

And here https://phabricator.kde.org/T10189 is KDE discussion about this problem.

[Murz (murznn)]

Here https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1514605 is same bug in Mozilla tracker.

[Murz (murznn)]

I got same crash on Ubuntu with GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 environment variable set.

[Murz (murznn)]

Here is Report contents for this crash:
Add-ons: gconversation%40xulforum.org:2.14.7,%7Ba300a000-5e21-4ee0-a115-9ec8f4eaa92b%7D:0.3.17b1,%7B972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd%7D:60.4.0,messagingmenu%40mozilla.com:1.4
BuildID: 20190115190018
ContentSandboxCapabilities: 119
ContentSandboxCapable: 1
ContentSandboxLevel: 0
CrashTime: 1548746230
Email: <email address hidden>
FramePoisonBase: 9223372036600930304
FramePoisonSize: 4096
InstallTime: 1548745720
Notes: Ubuntu 18.10FP(D00-L1100-W00000000-T000) OpenGL: Intel Open Source Technology Center -- Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell -- 3.0 Mesa 18.2.2 -- texture_from_pixmap
WR? WR- OMTP? OMTP-
ProductID: {3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6}
ProductName: Thunderbird
ReleaseChannel: release
SafeMode: 0
SecondsSinceLastCrash: 487409
StartupCrash: 0
StartupTime: 1548746229
TelemetryEnvironment: {"build":{"applicationId":"{3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6}","applicationName":"Thunderbird","architecture":"x86-64","buildId":"20190115190018","version":"60.4.0","vendor":null,"platformVersion":"60.4.0","xpcomAbi":"x86_64-gcc3","updaterAvailable":false},"partner":{"distributionId":null,"distributionVersion":null,"partnerId":null,"distributor":null,"distributorChannel":null,"partnerNames":[]},"system":{"memoryMB":7792,"virtualMaxMB":null,"cpu":{"count":4,"cores":2,"vendor":"GenuineIntel","family":6,"model":60,"stepping":3,"l2cacheKB":256,"l3cacheKB":3072,"speedMHz":3400,"extensions":["hasMMX","hasSSE","hasSSE2","hasSSE3","hasSSSE3","hasSSE4_1","hasSSE4_2","hasAVX","hasAVX2","hasAES"]},"os":{"name":"Linux","version":"4.18.0-13-generic","locale":"ru-RU"},"hdd":{"profile":{"model":null,"revision":null},"binary":{"model":null,"revision":null},"system":{"model":null,"revision":null}},"gfx":{"D2DEnabled":null,"DWriteEnabled":null,"ContentBackend":"Skia","adapters":[{"description":"Intel Open Source Technology Center -- Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell ","vendorID":"Intel Open Source Technology Center","deviceID":"Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell ","subsysID":null,"RAM":null,"driver":null,"driverVersion":"3.0 Mesa 18.2.2","driverDate":null,"GPUActive":true}],"monitors":[],"features":{"compositor":"none","gpuProcess":{"status":"unused"}}},"appleModelId":null},"settings":{"blocklistEnabled":true,"e10sEnabled":false,"e10sMultiProcesses":4,"telemetryEnabled":false,"locale":"en-US","update":{"channel":"release","enabled":true,"autoDownload":true},"userPrefs":{"browser.cache.disk.capacity":276480,"browser.search.region":"RU"},"sandbox":{"effectiveContentProcessLevel":0},"addonCompatibilityCheckEnabled":true,"isDefaultBrowser":null},"profile":{}}
ThreadIdNameMapping: 28980:"Gecko_IOThread",28981:"Link Monitor",28982:"Socket Thread",28983:"JS Watchdog",28990:"BGReadURLs",28991:"Hang Monitor",28996:"Timer",28997:"StreamTrans #1",28998:"Cache2 I/O",28999:"Cookie",29000:"GMPThread",29001:"SoftwareVsyncThread",29002:"Compositor",29003:"VRListener",29004:"ImgDecoder #1",29005:"ImageIO",29010:"IPDL Background",29011:"LoadRoots",29012:"DataStorage",29013:"DataStorage",29015:"mozStorage #1",29016:"HTML5 Parser",29020:"ImgDecoder #2",29021:"DOM Worker",29022:"ImageBridgeChild",
Throttleable: 1
UptimeTS: 1.03866891
Vendor:
Version: 60.4.0
useragent_...

[Joncfoo (joncfoo)]

I've experienced this same crash with Thunderbird 60.5.1 from the mozilla team's ppa on Ubuntu 18.10.

In my case, I had to first add a mail account and when autoconfiguration was complete and I hit done/continue thunderbird crashes. Any subsequent launches result in a crash until the cache+profile is removed (I'm not sure if removing both is necessary but it works).

un-setting GTK_USE_PORTAL and then launching thunderbird seems to work (no more crashes).

# package details #
Package: thunderbird
Version: 1:60.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.10.1~mt1
Priority: optional
Section: mail
Maintainer: Ubuntu Mozilla Team <email address hidden>

[Vseerror (vseerror)]

murz

We need your crash ID - see https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mozilla-crash-reporter-tb#w_viewing-crash-reports
(Unfortunately "crash details" isn't useful here)

[Vseerror (vseerror)]

(In reply to Elvis Angelaccio from comment #3)
> Thanks for the link, it doesn't crash using that package. I'll report the crash downstream.

Do you have a link?

[Elvis-angelaccio-o (elvis-angelaccio-o)]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #8)

> (In reply to Elvis Angelaccio from comment #3)
> > Thanks for the link, it doesn't crash using that package. I'll report the crash downstream.
>
> Do you have a link?

Sure: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/61134

[Vseerror (vseerror)]

Anyone else see crashes with this setting?

[Murz (murznn)]

Here is my two fresh crash id's for this issue:
bp-b9d80041-48a4-42d9-a4fd-8a1eb0190309
bp-e0e1b55d-99be-43eb-8ace-487550190309

[Vseerror (vseerror)]

Thanks Murz. Was this using a download from https://releases.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/60.5.1/linux-x86_64/en-US/ ?

[Alessandro Menti (elgaton)]

I confirm I'm seeing the crash as well on TB 60.5.3 - since the Arch Linux build does not have debug symbols enabled, I'm recompiling the package to see if I can get a proper backtrace.

[Vseerror (vseerror)]

(In reply to Alessandro Menti from comment #13)
> I confirm I'm seeing the crash as well on TB 60.5.3 - since the Arch Linux build does not have debug symbols enabled, I'm recompiling the package to see if I can get a proper backtrace.

Alessandro recompiling from http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/60.6.1/linux-x86_64/ ?
Did you have success?

And does this also happen with Firefox?

[Alessandro Menti (elgaton)]

Hi Wayne,
I tried recompiling Thunderbird but, despite adding the proper configuration switches to add debug symbols, apparently the build process did not add them.

I can also confirm that the crash does not happen with Firefox (I tested it with the Arch Linux provided package, version 66.0.5-1).

[Wls220spring (wls220spring)]

Learned something new today. :)

No crash here starting Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 from Ubuntu with GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 thunderbird -p on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS.

I did get this message in the terminal.

"JavaScript error: jar:file:///usr/lib/thunderbird/omni.ja!/components/XULStore.js, line 65: Error: Can't find profile directory."

The Profile Manager opened anyway and I was able to use the associated profile.

I get the same error without using the -p switch.

[Y-benjamin (y-benjamin)]

I've tested 6.70.0, 6.70.1, 68.0b1, and the daily on Ubuntu 19.04, all crash after all dialogs are closed and it seems (still needs a little more testing) at least one email account is setup.

Whats odd is that unless you explicitly set GTK_USE_PORTAL = 1 in the string to launch TB (i.e. 'GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 thunderbird') the bug is not triggered.

It also happens regardless to the value you give GTK_USE_PORTAL as 'GTK_USE_PORTAL=0 thunderbird'

[Y-benjamin (y-benjamin)]

Here are the crash reports generated using the beta

bp-b5718f8c-7977-46a4-84b8-d190b0190618 <-- with 'GTK_USE_PORTAL=0 thunderbird'

bp-0fd780e4-9d38-4b70-b887-208e50190618 <-- with 'GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 thunderbird'

[Vseerror (vseerror)]

FWIW, 12 crashes from the same person today, on 69.0b1

[Joern-starruss (joern-starruss)]

I am experiencing this crash on kubuntu 18.10 using thunderbird 60.8.0. Installed package is 60.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.10.1
I set GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 in the '.profile' file in the home folder.
Could provide debugging backtrace/data.

[Y-benjamin (y-benjamin)]

This seems to be the only reference to GTK_USE_PORTAL in Mozilla's code.
https://searchfox.org/comm-central/source/mozilla/toolkit/system/gnome/nsGIOService.cpp#35

I'm going to start a regression search, and looking around the Mozilla code to see if there is something they set that we don't.

Will update at the end of the day.

[Jorg K (jorgk)]

*** Bug 1545489 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Y-benjamin (y-benjamin)]

So it seems this has been in the code a LONG time. So if it is a regression I haven't found it yet. I still find it odd that Firefox doesn't suffer from the same issue given we share so much of the code base.

[Mkmelin+mozilla (mkmelin+mozilla)]

Created attachment 9091741
bug1514605_GTK_USE_PORTAL.patch

Can't reproduce at least on trunk. But if the crash report numbers are correct, this would be the issue.

[Jorg K (jorgk)]

Comment on attachment 9091741
bug1514605_GTK_USE_PORTAL.patch

Typically for a QI, a bad status and returning null are synonymous. I wouldn't check both, but there's no harm done.

[Murz (murznn)]

Seems fixed, `GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 thunderbird` goes to work well on Ubuntu 19.04 with `thunderbird-mozilla-build_68.0-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb`!
With `thunderbird-mozilla-build_60.8.0-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb` now there are no crash, but dialog is still GTK.
Can any of other subscribers confirm, that this is fixed too?

[Pulsebot (pulsebot)]

Pushed by <email address hidden>:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/aa6de4b5b0db
fix Thunderbird startup crash when GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 is set. r=jorgk

[Mkmelin+mozilla (mkmelin+mozilla)]

Comment on attachment 9091741
bug1514605_GTK_USE_PORTAL.patch

Shouldn't hurt.

[Jorg K (jorgk)]

TB 70 beta 2:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-beta/rev/366991cd4304a6d424f25a10d8899b83e2ae8469

[Jorg K (jorgk)]

TB 68.1.1 or TB 68.2:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-esr68/rev/d741c4f6b95c5f3e063738d171b2fccea3695263

[Mte90net (mte90net)]

I am having this issue with the latest version 70.0b1 but I don't see any release for 70.0b2 so basically I cannot use thunderbird.
I can confirm that using the nightly there are no problems.

[Jorg K (jorgk)]

We'll release TB 70 beta 2 early next week.