Bug 756064 - Thunderbird (64-bit) segfaults if run by a user authorized against LDAP
Summary: Thunderbird (64-bit) segfaults if run by a user authorized against LDAP
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: thunderbird
Version: 16
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Martin Stransky
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-11-22 16:05 UTC by Konstantin Boyandin
Modified: 2013-02-13 22:29 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-02-13 22:29:33 UTC
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backtrace for thunderbird crash (11.99 KB, text/plain)
2012-02-27 14:48 UTC, JLM
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Description Konstantin Boyandin 2011-11-22 16:05:45 UTC
Description of problem:

When run by a user authorized against external LDAP server, Thunderbird segfaults, the following is found in /var/log/messages:

thunderbird-bin[3135]: segfault at 7f6597fa20de ip 00007f65a5dea89b sp 00007fff8f267ba8 error 7 in libc-2.14.90.so[7f65a5d62000+1aa000]

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Thunderbird 7.0.1 x86_64 from standard Fedora 16 repository

How reproducible:

If run by the mentioned type of user, Thunderbird 7.0.1 64-bit always crashes in the same manner, regardless of whether it's from repository, or downloaded as tarballed binary distribution.

If the mentioned version of Thunderbird is run by local (shadow) user, it works fine.

32-bit versions work fine with any user (when all the required 32-bit packages are installed)

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Setup LDAPS (ldasps://) authentication in Fedora 16 and make whatever configuration changes required that sssd started to authenticate users correctly (it doesn't by default)
2. Install Thunderbird 7.0.1 64-bit
3. Log in as LDAP-authenticated user and run Thunderbird.
  
Actual results:

Thunderbird segfaults. By default, the only message is the one posted to /var/log/messages

Expected results:

Thunderbird should run normally.

Comment 1 Konstantin Boyandin 2011-11-23 03:26:53 UTC
Note: running nscd daemon seems to handle the above segfault event.

Please verify that as well.

Thank you.

Comment 2 Konstantin Boyandin 2011-12-27 06:21:16 UTC
Thunderbird 9 behaves in the same manner. 64-bit crashes, 32-bit works.

Am I right supposing no one is about to handle this bug or even consider it a bug at all? If any input from me is expected, please tell me how to generate it.

I am only installing Thunderbird as it is, eitehr from RPM or from binary Linux distributions by Mozilla. 

Thanks.

Comment 3 JLM 2012-01-19 10:33:35 UTC
I have the same problem 

Name        : thunderbird
Version     : 9.0
Release     : 4.fc16
Architecture: x86_64

User connected with LDAP (not LDAPS)

Cheers

Comment 4 Konstantin Boyandin 2012-02-03 06:14:21 UTC
Thunderbird 10.0 x86_64, from default Fedora 16 repository, starts and works fine up to an attempt to open add-on manager. After that, it crashes.

Will developers try a bit more and fix the add-on manager-related crash? What data shall I provide for that?

Comment 5 Martin Stransky 2012-02-24 15:53:42 UTC
Please provide bactrace - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StackTraces#Firefox (it's the same as for Firefox).

Comment 6 JLM 2012-02-27 14:48:52 UTC
Created attachment 566055 [details]
backtrace for thunderbird crash

Here is the backtrace for the thunderbird crash.

First, you have thunderbird launched in the debugger and the resulting segfault, then the trace given by gdb

Hope it could help.

Cheers

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