thunderbird crashed

Try running Thunderbird from gdb (the debugger). You may need to install it:- "sudo apt-get install gdb"

Then do "gdb thunderbird" and wait until the crash.

In gdb type "bt" to get a backtrace and post that.

Ah, well. I found the cause of this.

It was due to the fact that I had the enigmail extension installed without having GPG installed. An easy fix :)

Scratch that. The problem persists even after uninstalling enigmail.

Traceback:

-($ thunderbird -g
/usr/lib/thunderbird/run-mozilla.sh -g /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/thunderbird
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/thunderbird:/usr/lib/thunderbird/plugins:/usr/lib/mre/mre-2.0.0.6
DISPLAY=:0.0
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/thunderbird:/usr/lib/mre/mre-2.0.0.6
     LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/thunderbird:/usr/lib/thunderbird/components:/usr/lib/mre/mre-2.0.0.6
       SHLIB_PATH=/usr/lib/thunderbird:/usr/lib/mre/mre-2.0.0.6
          LIBPATH=/usr/lib/thunderbird:/usr/lib/mre/mre-2.0.0.6
       ADDON_PATH=/usr/lib/thunderbird
      MOZ_PROGRAM=/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin
      MOZ_TOOLKIT=
        moz_debug=1
     moz_debugger=
/usr/bin/gdb /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin -x /tmp/mozargs.h14238
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This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
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Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".
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Starting program: /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin
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I have the same problem, here's my backtrace:
0xffffe410 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0xffffe410 in ?? ()
#1 0xbfcb19b0 in ?? ()
#2 0x00000006 in ?? ()
#3 0x00005d9c in ?? ()
#4 0xb73e7875 in raise () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#5 0xb73e9201 in abort () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#6 0xb741ee6c in ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#7 0x00000029 in ?? ()
#8 0xbfcb1c14 in ?? ()
#9 0x00000400 in ?? ()
#10 0xb74e9088 in ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#11 0x00000017 in ?? ()
#12 0xbfcb36c0 in ?? ()
#13 0x00000024 in ?? ()
#14 0xb74e90a1 in ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#15 0x00000002 in ?? ()
#16 0xb74e90b4 in ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#17 0x00000020 in ?? ()
#18 0xb74e90a5 in ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#19 0x00000004 in ?? ()
#20 0xbfcb218b in ?? ()
#21 0x00000008 in ?? ()
#22 0xb74e90ab in ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#23 0x00000005 in ?? ()
#24 0xb7427081 in ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#25 0xb7726678 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#26 0xbfcb1c3c in ?? ()
#27 0x00000002 in ?? ()
#28 0xbfcb1b68 in ?? ()
#29 0xb76f89ee in g_object_unref () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#30 0xb7426d75 in ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#31 0x00000002 in ?? ()
#32 0xb74e9088 in ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#33 0xbfcb36c0 in ?? ()
#34 0xb74e90b4 in ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#35 0xbfcb218b in ?? ()
#36 0xb7f957c4 in ?? ()
#37 0xbfcb218b in ?? ()
#38 0x08f507e0 in ?? ()
#39 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#40 0x00000000 in ?? ()

hope this helps.

It looks on first inspection as if the two issues are not related, judging by the vast differences in the backtraces.

Should I create a second bug report?

Do a launchpad search first for already-reported bugs that might be the same, and if you can't find any likely candidates file a new report and copy the backtrace info into it.

Also see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProcedures

Please assign mozilla bugs to mozilla-bugs not mozilla team thank you
Please dont mark confirmed unless it meets the requerments found at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs/States

Thank you Mikkel Høgh for submitting this report.

Could you please try to obtain a backtrace by following the instructions
on [1], or upload the crash report that probably was generated during
the crash and that should be located at /var/crash/ to [2].

Please indicate which extensions/plugins do you have enabled; and if
this crash is reproducible describe the steps that lead to it (it is
very important for us to have a test case for each crash).

This will greatly aid us in tracking down your problem.

Thanks in advance.

H. Montoliu

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/136594/+addcomment

On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 18:18 +0000, lucasvo wrote:
> Should I create a second bug report?

Yes, please fill up a new bug report, we prefer a new report for each
crash; later we will decide if the problem has been reported before or
not.

Thank you lucasvo in advance.

--
Hilario J. Montoliu <email address hidden>

Thank you for the bug report however this report lacks information we need to investigate it further. For this reason, we are now going to close the bug report - please feel free to reopen when you have more information at hand.

Further information can be found at [1].

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs