Random segmentation fault in thunderbird

[Laurent]

Binary package hint: thunderbird

Thunderbird 3.1.8+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 segfaults several times a day for several persons in our office, but not everybody. We are all running Lucid Lynx 10.04.2 LTS. The crashes seem to be random and don't appear to be linked to a particular activity or task. It might be of interest that we are using ldap, I know that ldap has been a problem with thunderbird in the past.

I attached gdb to thunderbird and got the following error and backtrace:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00002ae9d31e5760 in *__GI_memmove (dest=0x2aeae367dea4, src=0x2aeae367dea8, len=65560)
    at memmove.c:79
79 memmove.c: No such file or directory.
        in memmove.c
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00002ae9d31e5760 in *__GI_memmove (dest=0x2aeae367dea4, src=0x2aeae367dea8, len=65560)
    at memmove.c:79
#1 0x0000000000c8a996 in nsTArray<unsigned int>::RemoveElementsAt (
    this=<value optimized out>, aIndex=-479732056)
    at ../../../mozilla/dist/include/nsTArray.h:664
#2 nsTArray<unsigned int>::RemoveElementAt (this=<value optimized out>, aIndex=-479732056)
    at ../../../mozilla/dist/include/nsTArray.h:669
#3 nsMsgGroupThread::RemoveChildAt (this=<value optimized out>, aIndex=-479732056)
    at nsMsgGroupThread.cpp:267
#4 0x0000000000c89b38 in nsMsgGroupThread::RemoveChildHdr (this=0x2ae9e553b7c0,
    child=<value optimized out>, announcer=<value optimized out>)
    at nsMsgGroupThread.cpp:298
#5 0x0000000000c8b1b0 in nsMsgGroupView::OnHdrDeleted (this=0x2ae9e39c9c00,
    aHdrDeleted=0x2ae9df7a4040, aParentKey=104338, aFlags=<value optimized out>,
    aInstigator=<value optimized out>) at nsMsgGroupView.cpp:710
#6 0x0000000000c8173e in nsMsgQuickSearchDBView::OnHdrDeleted (this=0x2ae9e39c9c00,
    aHdrDeleted=0x2ae9df7a4040, aParentKey=104338, aFlags=65560, aInstigator=0x0)
    at nsMsgQuickSearchDBView.cpp:892
#7 0x0000000000d08da4 in nsMsgDatabase::NotifyHdrDeletedAll (this=<value optimized out>,
    aHdrDeleted=0x2ae9df7a4040, aParentKey=104338, aFlags=65560, aInstigator=0x0)
    at nsMsgDatabase.cpp:724
#8 0x0000000000d07481 in nsMsgDatabase::DeleteHeader (this=0x2ae9dfa12200,
    msg=0x2ae9df7a4040, instigator=0x0, commit=1, notify=1) at nsMsgDatabase.cpp:1810
#9 0x0000000000d06525 in nsMsgDatabase::DeleteMessages (this=0x2ae9dfa12200, aNumKeys=1,
    nsMsgKeys=<value optimized out>, instigator=<value optimized out>)
    at nsMsgDatabase.cpp:1753
#10 0x0000000000d319a3 in nsImapMailFolder::UpdateImapMailboxInfo (this=0x2ae9dcbef000,
    aProtocol=0x2ae9e1bb2000, aSpec=0x2ae9ddb60500) at nsImapMailFolder.cpp:2860
#11 0x00002ae9cca133b5 in NS_InvokeByIndex_P (that=0x2aeae367dea4, methodIndex=3815235240,
    paramCount=12, params=0x0) at xptcinvoke_x86_64_unix.cpp:208
#12 0x00002ae9cca0c223 in nsProxyObjectCallInfo::Run (this=0x2ae9ddb26680)
    at nsProxyEvent.cpp:181
#13 0x00002ae9cca083b1 in nsThread::ProcessNextEvent (this=0x2ae9d6d34550, mayWait=1,
    result=0x7ffffba076ec) at nsThread.cpp:527
#14 0x00002ae9cc9dbdb0 in NS_ProcessNextEvent_P (thread=0x2aeae367dea4, mayWait=-479732056)
    at nsThreadUtils.cpp:250
#15 0x000000000061e58b in nsBaseAppShell::Run (this=0x2ae9d6dcfbe0)
    at nsBaseAppShell.cpp:177
#16 0x0000000000bc51ee in nsAppStartup::Run (this=0x2ae9db395d40) at nsAppStartup.cpp:183
#17 0x000000000044b128 in XRE_main (argc=<value optimized out>, argv=<value optimized out>,
    aAppData=<value optimized out>) at nsAppRunner.cpp:3483
#18 0x0000000000446b40 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7ffffba07ef8) at nsMailApp.cpp:101

[Laurent (laurent-chardon-ec)]

I have been testing it in --safe-mode as well, same problem

[Chris Schoonbee (cmschoonbee)]

I use Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS. Since late May/ early June 2011 Thunderbird has been crashing randomly on me. Subsequently I have been starting it in a terminal and each time it crashes (about once a day) it says 'Segmentation fault'.
I am using Thunderbird version 3.1.10 (3.1.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1).

I have noticed no other stability problems other than Firefox but this has been crashing randomly for much longer already and I have learnt to live with it, ascribing it to problematic web pages or scripts. I do not start it from a terminal so I see no error messages apart from the 'Oops' dialog given by Firefox.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

do you have any plugins installed?

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Laurent,
Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with Thunderbird.

You made this bug report in 2011 and there have been several versions of Ubuntu and Thunderbird since then.

Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the ticket?
Or, if it is still a problem, could you run the following (only once):
apport-collect 750705

and upload the updated logs and and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu and Thunderbird better.

G

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for thunderbird (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]