Bug#517638: icedove: freeze/lockup of message pane when left for some hours

[Arthur Marsh]

Package: icedove
Version: 2.0.0.19-1
Severity: normal


This was the first time I noticed this, but it seemed weird and worth 
reporting.

After having icedove on for several hours, during which time I'd had 
some updates applied (although none which appear in the list of 
dependencies below) and prelink run both manually and via cron job, I 
found that the message pane of icedove had frozen. I could select 
different messages or message areas, but the message pane itself 
remained frozen, until I quit and restarted icedove.

This seems a bit related to the problem I have had for most if not all 
versions of icedove/thunderbird under GNU/Linux - sometimes the message 
pane will fail to display the selected message at all.

Any debugging clues or extra debugging help in a future build would be 
much appreciated.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages icedove depends on:
ii  debianutils      2.31                    Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  fontconfig       2.6.0-3                 generic font configuration library
ii  libatk1.0-0      1.22.0-1                The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6            2.9-3                   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2        1.8.6-2                 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libfontconfig1   2.6.0-3                 generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6     2.3.7-2                 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1          1:4.3.3-4               GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0     2.18.4-2                The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0      2.12.12-1               The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libhunspell-1.2- 1.2.8-2                 spell checker and morphological an
ii  libjpeg62        6b-14                   The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libnspr4-0d      4.7.1-4                 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3-1d       3.12.2.with.ckbi.1.73-1 Network Security Service libraries
ii  libpango1.0-0    1.22.4-2                Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0       1.2.35-1                PNG library - runtime
ii  libstdc++6       4.3.3-4                 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6         2:1.1.5-2               X11 client-side library
ii  libxft2          2.1.13-3                FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxinerama1     2:1.0.3-2               X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxrender1      1:0.9.4-2               X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6           1:1.0.5-3               X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  psmisc           22.6-1                  Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii  zlib1g           1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12       compression library - runtime

icedove recommends no packages.

Versions of packages icedove suggests:
pn  icedove-gnome-support         <none>     (no description available)
ii  latex-xft-fonts               0.1-8      Xft-compatible versions of some La
ii  libthai0                      0.1.9-4    Thai language support library

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