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  1. Bug #507089
  2. Comment #112

Comment 112 for bug 507089

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Dan Woodard (dan-e-woodard) wrote : Re: thunderbird shredder always segfaults on startup with LDAP auth in nsswitch

I have a similar problem. I'm adding what may be more details to aid in solving. I use LDAP for authentication and I have nscd installed. Thunderbird has been working without issue until yesterday when I changed hosts in nsswitch.conf to use ldap as shown below;

Changed:
hosts: files dns [NOTFOUND=return]
to the following;
hosts: files ldap dns [NOTFOUND=return]

This change resulted in seg faults with no other warning. I was able to create an alternate user profile and that would work, but when trying to get back to the current user, the seg fault would return. Once I changed nsswitch.conf back to using dns, the app starts without issue.

My release;
Linux bari.iqanalog.com 2.6.32-33-generic #72-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 29 21:07:13 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS"
Thunderbird 3.1.13