Ubuntu
thunderbird package

  1. Bug #507089
  2. Comment #76

Comment 76 for bug 507089

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

Here's a workaround.
Add yourself as a local user in /etc/passwd & /etc/shadow and it'll work.

To confirm, run
       getent passwd | grep <your uid>

and you should see 2 entries, the local and the ldap. If they are ==, then you did the right thing.

bedge:x:1077:2222:Bruce Edge:/users/bedge:/bin/zsh
bedge:x:1077:2222:Bruce Edge:/users/bedge:/bin/zsh

-Bruce