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thunderbird package

  1. Bug #507089
  2. Comment #56

Comment 56 for bug 507089

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Bruce Edge (bruce-edge) wrote : thunderbird shredder always segfaults on startup with LDAP auth in nsswitch

Binary package hint: thunderbird

If nsswitch.conf is set with:

passwd: compat ldap
group: compat ldap
shadow: compat ldap

My ldap config does work as I'm using it for login authentication.

thunderbird-3.0 always segfaults:

0 %> thunderbird-3.0
Segmentation fault
0 %> thunderbird-3.0 --g-fatal-warnings
Segmentation fault
139 %> thunderbird-3.0 -options
Segmentation fault
139 %> thunderbird-3.0 -safe-mode
Segmentation fault
139 %> thunderbird-3.0 -ProfileManager
Segmentation fault
139 %>

...even with no .thunderbird-30 dir:

 %> thunderbird-3.0 -ProfileManager
*INFO* No /users/bedge/.thunderbird-3.0 detected. Create it from /users/bedge/.mozilla-thunderbird
Segmentation fault
0 9:12:52 bedge@ice ~
139 %>

Changing nsswitch back to NIS works:

passwd: compat nis
group: compat nis
shadow: compat nis

1 %> dpkg -l thunderbird\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===========================-===========================-======================================================================
ii thunderbird 2.0.0.23+build1+nobinonly-0 mail/news client with RSS and integrated spam filter support
ii thunderbird-3.0 3.0~rc3~micahg+nobinonly-0u mail/news client with RSS and integrated spam filter support
ii thunderbird-3.0-gnome-suppo 3.0~rc3~micahg+nobinonly-0u Support for Gnome in Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0
ii thunderbird-dispmua 1.6.4.3-1ubuntu1 Display Mail User Agent extension (transitional package)
ii thunderbird-gnome-support 2.0.0.23+build1+nobinonly-0 Support for Gnome in Mozilla Thunderbird
ii thunderbird-locale-en-gb 1:2.0.0.14+1-0ubuntu2 Thunderbird English language/region package
ii thunderbird-nostalgy 0.2.16+svn151-1ubuntu1 keyboard shortcut extension for thunderbird
ii thunderbird-quickfile 0.17.0.0011-0ubuntu4 faster mail filing for the Thunderbird mail client
ii thunderbird-traybiff 1.2.3-4.2ubuntu2 traybiff - new mail alert for thunderbird