9.10: thunderbird crashed with SIGSEGV on opening menus

[bohica]

Binary package hint: thunderbird

Just upgraded to 9.10 and ever since thunderbird crashes with a segmentation fault if I hover the mouse over any of the menu bar items or hit alt + file menu letter. I can avoid it by not doing any of the above but it means I cannot use any of the menu bar items like File, Edit, View etc.

I tried running it with the -safe-mode but it makes no difference.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10

$ apt-cache policy thunderbird
thunderbird:
  Installed: 2.0.0.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.0.0.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.0.0.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Tue Nov 17 09:19:50 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: thunderbird 2.0.0.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: thunderbird
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libgklayout.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libgklayout.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libgklayout.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libgklayout.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libgklayout.so
Title: thunderbird-bin crashed with SIGSEGV
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev video
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x842422 <__kernel_vsyscall+2>: ret
 PC (0x00842422) ok
 destination "(%esp)" (0xbfb9260c) ok
 SP (0xbfb9260c) ok
 Reason could not be automatically determined. (Unhandled exception in kernel code?)
SegvReason: Reason could not be automatically determined. (Unhandled exception in kernel code?)

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:nsMenuFrame::BuildAcceleratorText (this=0x9626d20)
nsMenuFrame::Init (this=0x9626d20, aPresContext=0xb64a3d78,
nsCSSFrameConstructor::InitAndRestoreFrame (this=0x8c63b28,
nsCSSFrameConstructor::ConstructXULFrame (this=0x8c63b28,
nsCSSFrameConstructor::ConstructFrameInternal (

[bohica (bohica)]

In case it helps:

I did:

cd .mozilla-thunderbird/hwix77fo.default
> prefs.js

then started thunderbird again. It asked to create a new account and I cancelled and exited that. It still crashes when going near the menu bar.

[bohica (bohica)]

I am no longer on 9.10 and this problem has gone away now. I am now running:

LSB Version: core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10
Codename: maverick

[dino99 (9d9)]

This version is outdated and no more supported