Hello Alexander.
> Please run strace -f mozilla-thunderbird and attach the output.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - /home/edumerco/strace -f mozilla-thunderbird > strace-tb.txt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - /home/edumerco/less strace-tb.txt
selected locale: en-US
DOUBLE-CLICK: 500 --> -1 THRESHOLD: 6 --> -1
After that thousands of lines, that I don't know how to capture, of
the following style are quickly thrown:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] - /home/edumerco/strace -f mozilla-thunderbird
execve("/usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird", ["mozilla-thunderbird"], [/* 29
vars */]) = 0
uname({sys="Linux", node="terramar", ...}) = 0
brk(0) = 0x80f1000
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1, 0) = 0xb7fea000
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=69392, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 69392, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7fd9000
close(3) = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/libncurses.so.5", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\20\345"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=258704, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 260364, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE,
3, 0) = 0xb7f99000
old_mmap(0xb7fd0000, 32768, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x37000) = 0xb7fd0000
old_mmap(0xb7fd8000, 2316, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7fd8000
close(3) = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/tls/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\20\f\0"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=9592, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 12404, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE,
3, 0) = 0xb7f95000
old_mmap(0xb7f97000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1000) = 0xb7f97000
close(3) = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/tls/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\300O\1"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1265136, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 1275196, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb7e5d000
old_mmap(0xb7f8e000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x130000) = 0xb7f8e000
old_mmap(0xb7f92000, 9532, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f92000
close(3) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1, 0) = 0xb7e5c000
mprotect(0xb7f8e000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xb7e5c8e0,
limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0,
limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0
munmap(0xb7fd9000, 69392) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
close(3) = 0
open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=290576, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 290576, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7e15000
close(3) = 0
brk(0) = 0x80f1000
brk(0x80f2000) = 0x80f2000
brk(0x80f3000) = 0x80f3000
brk(0x80f4000) = 0x80f4000
getuid32() = 1000
getgid32() = 1000
geteuid32() = 1000
getegid32() = 1000
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
time(NULL) = 1124585404
brk(0x80f5000) = 0x80f5000
open("/etc/mtab", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=314, ...}) = 0
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> Anything that is special about your setup?
Nothing I can think of...
> What extensions are installed?
Pretty basic: offline, typeahead and inspector.
> Is this problem profile related? Does thunderbird still fail to start
> with a fresh profile (e.g. with a test unix account)?
Yes, it still fail. I created another account in my system, logged in
as this fresh user and still see the same symptom.
Thanks Alexander for your help.
Work without mail is almost unthinkable. :-)
Regards...
--
Eduardo Mercovich
Buenos Aires - Argentina.
