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>
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 # 1+build1- 0ubuntu0. 18.10.1~ mt1
Package: thunderbird
Version: 1:60.5.
Priority: optional
Section: mail
Maintainer: Ubuntu Mozilla Team <email address hidden>