(In reply to Martin Baute from comment #90) > Chiming in with the info that I first encountered this bug in Mint 13 > (Ubuntu Precise), and it still applies in Mint 17 (Ubuntu Trusty). And while > I can understand all the issues involved with deciding the "right way to > go", I am somewhat miffed to find that a decade-old bug still expresses > itself as a SIGSEGV. Expecting the user to strace / google / eventually find > this bug entry if he's lucky? Is it really that difficult to check for the > condition and at least give a meaningful message (perhaps including a > workaround recommendation) before exiting gracefully?
It is a constant of Electronic Data Processing that no program is bug- free before it is obsolete. Even once a bug is identified, fixing it is not always easy. Complaining that "after so many years, no fix has been found" doesn't push the bug any nearer to be fixed, while it adds to the lot of useless rubbish (please excuse my language) that developers must wade through in order to find what the problem really is. Another constant of EDP is that there are never enough coding hands do do all that needs doing, even when, as at Mozilla, a lot of volunteers selflessly donate part of their time to help the people whose paid job it is to try and fix these bugs. Any help is always welcome, and the code is anyone's to look into. Do you know how to fix the bug? Good! Write a patch, ASSIGN the bug to yourself, find an appropriate reviewer by browsing https://wiki.mozilla.org/Modules and off you go. Once you get a positive review, set the checkin-needed flag, and someone will push your patch into the permanent source. You mean you don't know how to fix the patch? Ah, too bad. Neither do I. So let us wait patiently, even years if that's what it takes, until someone comes around who does, and in the meantime let's have a look at the "rules of the house", https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/507089 Title: thunderbird shredder always segfaults on startup with LDAP auth in nsswitch Status in SeaMonkey: all-in-one Internet application suite: New Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News: Confirmed Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: thunderbird If nsswitch.conf is set with: passwd: compat ldap group: compat ldap shadow: compat ldap My ldap config does work as I'm using it for login authentication. thunderbird-3.0 always segfaults: 0 %> thunderbird-3.0 Segmentation fault 0 %> thunderbird-3.0 --g-fatal-warnings Segmentation fault 139 %> thunderbird-3.0 -options Segmentation fault 139 %> thunderbird-3.0 -safe-mode Segmentation fault 139 %> thunderbird-3.0 -ProfileManager Segmentation fault 139 %> ...even with no .thunderbird-30 dir: %> thunderbird-3.0 -ProfileManager *INFO* No /users/bedge/.thunderbird-3.0 detected. Create it from /users/bedge/.mozilla-thunderbird Segmentation fault 0 9:12:52 bedge@ice ~ 139 %> Changing nsswitch back to NIS works: passwd: compat nis group: compat nis shadow: compat nis 1 %> dpkg -l thunderbird\* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-===========================-===========================-====================================================================== ii thunderbird 2.0.0.23+build1+nobinonly-0 mail/news client with RSS and integrated spam filter support ii thunderbird-3.0 3.0~rc3~micahg+nobinonly-0u mail/news client with RSS and integrated spam filter support ii thunderbird-3.0-gnome-suppo 3.0~rc3~micahg+nobinonly-0u Support for Gnome in Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 ii thunderbird-dispmua 1.6.4.3-1ubuntu1 Display Mail User Agent extension (transitional package) ii thunderbird-gnome-support 2.0.0.23+build1+nobinonly-0 Support for Gnome in Mozilla Thunderbird ii thunderbird-locale-en-gb 1:2.0.0.14+1-0ubuntu2 Thunderbird English language/region package ii thunderbird-nostalgy 0.2.16+svn151-1ubuntu1 keyboard shortcut extension for thunderbird ii thunderbird-quickfile 0.17.0.0011-0ubuntu4 faster mail filing for the Thunderbird mail client ii thunderbird-traybiff 1.2.3-4.2ubuntu2 traybiff - new mail alert for thunderbird WORKAROUND: Installing the nscd package solves this issue in most cases. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/seamonkey/+bug/507089/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
