Lucid: Thunderbird crashes

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 18:05 -0700, maliron wrote:
> 
> Karl Larsen-2 wrote:
> > 
> > On 05/05/2010 12:17 AM, Thomas Kaiser wrote:
> >> I just updated to Lucid (10.04) last weekend. Now, Thunderbird crashes
> >> every day (usually in the night when I am sleeping).
> >>
> >> I run it from the terminal:
> >> thomas at AMD64:~$ thunderbird
> >> deliver mode: 0
> >> Segmentation fault
> >>
> >> Only "Segmentation fault" as an output, not a big help.
> >>
> >> Here the details about my version:
> >> thomas at AMD64:~$ uname -a
> >> Linux AMD64 2.6.32-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 08:09:38 UTC
> >> 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> >> thomas at AMD64:~$ lsb_release -a
> >> No LSB modules are available.
> >> Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
> >> Description:	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
> >> Release:	10.04
> >> Codename:	lucid
> >>
> >>    
> >      What happened I think was the old thunderbird setup was not good 
> > for the new version. Also you should not run it from a terminal. That is 
> > not good.
> > 
> > 73 Karl
> > 
> > 
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> 
> 
> I think he was just running from the terminal so he could see if there were
> debug messages displayed. 
> 
> I am having the same issue, and when it crashes it shows nothing, it's just
> gone. At first I thought I might have been closing it by accident, but it
> happens more and more now. I'll be working away and go to click on
> thunderbird to send an email and it's just not there, just disappeared
> without a word and I have to reopen it. I did migrate from a previous
> thunderbird install so the config thing makes sense.
> 
> Any idea what in the config could be causing this, I have a fairly
> complicated mail setup and would not want to start over.


The best scenario is that it is some config file(s) in your /home
directory.


But it can be some library conflict between different library versions
somewhere, etc.


I will mention it again for all, always prefer clean installations
unless you have to avoid them for some reason.





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Ioannis Vranos

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