[Bug 600447] [NEW] Thunderbird fails to start

[prasanna]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: thunderbird

Seemed to happen when package was upgraded yesterday. Running
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608
Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1; on Ubuntu 9.10. Running thunderbird
under Gnome shows the "Starting ..." on the task bar. Then it goes away
with no process launched. Running thunderbird --safe-mode from terminal
window starts thunderbird (obviously with no add ons). Closing the safe
mode allows thunderbird to restart again without safe-mode, and all add
ons (the only one I have is lightning) to run. Then if I close
thunderbird again and try to restart it, it fails the same way.

Bottom line--if I run it in safe mode, it lets me relaunch it in normal
mode. Once. Then I have to repeat the safe mode again.

It had been running fine until the repository push yesterday.

--prasanna

prasanna at vaio-rs420:~/.mozilla-thunderbird/Crash Reports/submitted$ apt-cache policy thunderbird
thunderbird:
  Installed: 2.0.0.24+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.2
  Candidate: 2.0.0.24+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.2
  Version table:
 *** 2.0.0.24+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.0.0.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jun 30 17:54:49 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: thunderbird 2.0.0.24+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-22.60-generic-pae
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-22-generic-pae i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:30741): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:30831): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:30849): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (gnome-panel:30830): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -6 and height 24

** Affects: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Invalid


** Tags: apport-bug i386

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