Comment 2 for bug 394749

I'm running Xubuntu 10.10 and thunderbird 3.1.7.
Whenever I start thunderbird for the first time it always fails, the second attempt succeeds.

This turns up at the command prompt:

###!!! ABORT: X_ShmPutImage: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation); 11 requests ago: file nsX11ErrorHandler.cpp, line 182
UNKNOWN [/usr/lib/thunderbird-3.1.7/thunderbird-bin +0x00038CF8]
UNKNOWN [/usr/lib/libbonoboui-2.so.0 +0x00020C74]
_XError+0x00000109 [/usr/lib/libX11.so.6 +0x0003B2C9]
UNKNOWN [/usr/lib/libX11.so.6 +0x0004199F]
_XReply+0x00000106 [/usr/lib/libX11.so.6 +0x00042036]
XInternAtoms+0x00000180 [/usr/lib/libX11.so.6 +0x00024120]
UNKNOWN [/usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 +0x0005FAA8]
gdk_window_register_dnd+0x0000008A [/usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 +0x0004D63A]
UNKNOWN [/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 +0x00285A4B]
UNKNOWN [/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 +0x00285BD8]
UNKNOWN [/usr/lib/thunderbird-3.1.7/thunderbird-bin +0x00220CE3]
UNKNOWN [/usr/lib/thunderbird-3.1.7/thunderbird-bin +0x006FC450]
UNKNOWN [/usr/lib/thunderbird-3.1.7/thunderbird-bin +0x006FB061]
UNKNOWN [/usr/lib/thunderbird-3.1.7/thunderbird-bin +0x006FB40C]
UNKNOWN [/usr/lib/thunderbird-3.1.7/thunderbird-bin +0x007692A6]
UNKNOWN [/usr/lib/thunderbird-3.1.7/thunderbird-bin +0x00034992]
UNKNOWN [/usr/lib/thunderbird-3.1.7/thunderbird-bin +0x00030B90]
__libc_start_main+0x000000E7 [/lib/libc.so.6 +0x00016CE7]
Aborted