Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 242519
ThunderBird exits/crashes with profiles
Last modified: 2008-10-30 17:55:31 EDT
Description of problem: ThunderBird just exits or crashes when working with more than one profile. Profile manager can not be started. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): thunderbird-2.0.0.0-1.fc7 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. thunderbird -ProfileManager just exits 2. thunderbird just exits if > 1 profiles are present 3. thunderbird exits with 'Segmentation fault' if only one profile is present. I created a new one (mv ~/.thunderbird ~/.thunderbird_save). When starting for the first time there are no google, newsgroups... choices. Expected results: Should work no worser than the upstream version (tar.gz from mozilla.com). Additional info: Upstream works just fine and is 11MB (tar.gz, 32MB installed), FC7's is 23MB(rpm, 43MB installed) and ... :-( package-cleanup --problems shows 'No problems found'. Another related problem is maybe bug # 242432 I tried sh -x /usr/bin/thunderbird ... export the same variables and so on ... strace /usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.0/thunderbird-bin -ProfileManager ... open("/usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.0/components/xpti.dat.tmp", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) ... which is quite strange, no program (I'm running as normal user, but root's not exception) should try to write in /usr/lib/whatever AFAIK.
Forgot to mention thar in 3. it works fine, when you close it (normal program exit) it segfaults.
thunderbird-2.0.0.4-0.rc1.fc7 still has the same problems.
I'm having the same problem... using Fedora 7 and Thunderbird 2.0.0.5.
Still no solution... I must use only one profile with Thunderbird on Fedora! :-(
As a note, multiple profiles is sort of unsupported upstream. There's some lingering code there which is intended to go away. The preferred solution is to have a different user. With fast user switching, this should be made easier.
Though I wonder if this is a side effect of bug 244901.
I do not think it is related to #244501 - although that bug made Thunderbird not start at all. I can start Thunderbird with multiple profiles if I select the profile from commandline: thunderbird -p default thunderbird -p work This seems to work (after rpm -e thunderbird and rm -Rf /usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.* and yum install thunderbird again)
Using Fedora 8 and Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (20071115). Having the same problem, 1.- $ thunderbird -ProfileManager do not run nothing 2.- Runing thunderbird with a profiles.ini with more than one profile $ thunderbird seems to run but closes. 3.- Specifing a profile of a profiles.ini with more than one profile $ thunderbird -P profile01 workd fine
At this point, we're going to only be taking security fixes and major stability fixes into this release of Fedora. However, we still want to ensure the bug is fixed in the next version. We'd appreciate if you could test with the latest version of Thunderbird (2.0.0.12) now available for your distribution and provide feedback as to whether the problem still exists so we can file a ticket upstream as soon as possible.
thunderbird-2.0.0.12-1.fc8 -ProfileManager results in a very fast exit. The last part of the messages from strace looks just the same (components/xpti.dat.tmp)... The options --sync --no-xshm -safe-mode have no effect. The thunderbird binary (2.0.0.12) from mozilla.com works just fine on the same machine/session. I used that to create some profiles. When the checkbox to not ask about profile on startup is checked fedora's tb starts the last selected profile, but if it is not checked exits as fast as with -ProfileManager. Should we update the version to 8?
The "I am providing the requested information for this bug." checkbox did not work, retrying.
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Just tried with FC8 - the same problem.
Can reproduce with thunderbird-2.0.0.16-1.fc9.x86_64
Cannot reproduce with thunderbird-2.0.0.17-1.fc10.i386 -- it just works as it should.
Yep, it's OK with 2.0.0.17.