Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 315521
Segmentation fault in thunderbird with lightning because of missing compat-libstdc++-33
Last modified: 2007-12-14 05:10:01 EST
Description of problem: thunderbird crashes perhaps because I have installed lightning perhaps because it connects to an exchange server via imap and I just changed the password on the server Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.0.0.5-2.fc7 How reproducible: right now reproducible Steps to Reproduce: 1. open thunderbird, see list of mails 2. click mail, see that it writes "downloading message in the status bar" 3. sigsegv
Created attachment 213601 [details] gdb session with debuginfo and thread apply all bt
disabling lightning seems to make the problem non-reproducible I had installed the xpi from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2313 12770116722f211c1b4d339d7e06321e lightning-0.5-tb-linux.xpi
The toolchain used to build the xpi is likely different, which makes it not compatible with the RPM.
Sounds reasonable; they provide platform-specific downloads - but apparently not sufficiently platform-specific... Is that your conclusion or a theory? I knew that addons were powerfull enough to be dangerous, but I would expect mozilla/thunderbird to have some kind of api compatibility check. Is there a better/recommended way to try sunbird/lightning?
It's just a theory, but one which I believe is quite likely to be true, given other known incompatibilities. I wonder if installing the compat-libstdc++33 package (or whatever it's called) will help in your case. It does in some other cases. Else, probably need to compile it manually.
I installed compat-libstdc++-33, installed lightning again, and now it seems to work. More specific: I doesn't crash where it did before. A quick test shows that I can at least send mail and that lightning can show a google calender. So the cause of the problem has been identified and a workaround made for me. Thanks! Other fedora users trying the same will get the same problem. I think the issue should be left open until a general solution has been found. A workaround is to get lightning packaged as rpm with "proper" dependencies. Or to get it packaged without any need for dependencies... Until then it would be nice if upstream could inform about the requirement on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2313