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Thunderbird crashs on copy and paste from Jabref

Bug #408920 reported by Martin Schmettow
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thunderbird (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: thunderbird

When copy and pasting via Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V from Jabref into a thunderbird new message body, thunderbird crashes immediately.

How to reproduce:
1. Open a new message in thunderbird
2. Open Jabref
3. Open a reference in jabref
4. Copy a deliberate piece of text from the reference with Ctrl-C
5. Paste with Ctrl-V
 -> thunderbird crashes

Note: Everything's fine, when Pasting to kate first and CnP to thunderbird subsequently.

Kubuntu 9.04
thunderbird: 2.0.0.22+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
jabref: 2.3.1-6ubuntu1

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: mozilla-thunderbird 2.0.0.22+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686

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Martin Schmettow (schmettow) wrote :
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spaetz (spaetz) wrote :

Still occurs with version 2.0.0.23 (20090817) (karmic candidate)

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In , spaetz (spaetz) wrote :

1) Install JabRef and copy a citation with Ctrl-C from the summary view of a citation in the lower half of the window.

2) Paste with CTRL-C into a new (non-html) mail composition text body window

3) kaboom. Crash. 100% reproducable both with TB2 and TB3. It does not seem to depend on the citation you've chosen either. It crashes with all of them.

P.S. If I copy into gedit first and then into TB, everything is fine.

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In , Ludovic-mozillamessaging (ludovic-mozillamessaging) wrote :

Matej isn't that a dup of the bug one of your collegue is working on ?

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spaetz (spaetz) wrote :

As this also happens with Thunderbird3 (nightly build) I filed this as upstream bug report:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=534146

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mrtwister (mrtwister) wrote :

Today a fix has been provided via 'karmic-proposed'.

Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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In , Vseerror (vseerror) wrote :

need crash keywd

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In , spaetz (spaetz) wrote :

Doh, with current 3.0.2pre and Jabref 2.5 I cannot reproduce the crash anymore. This bug which has bugged me for 2 years seems to be gone.

Marking as resolved. I will reopen with a stacktrace if it occurs again.

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In , spaetz (spaetz) wrote :

I probably spoke too soon. I see that Ubuntu seems to have fixed this somehow:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/408920
"Today a fix has been provided via 'karmic-proposed'."

However, as I have no idea whether this fix has gone upstream, I'll leave this open. I am not able to reproduce that with my standard Ubuntu install anymore, however.

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In , Stransky (stransky) wrote :

Can you attach the ubuntu patch here?

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In , spaetz (spaetz) wrote :

Unfortunately not, as I don't know which patch has been applied or what has been done to fix this. A comment to the ubuntu bug has been added, asking for details (it seems the person stating that "a bug fix has been provided" is not even an ubuntu person. I will update this bug if I an reproduce the bug (hopefully getting a stack trace), or if details in the ubuntu bug emerge. I feel a little dumb now that I cannot reproduce this long-standing bug anymore, I have to admit :-)

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

@mrtwister
Could you please post which package a fix was released for? I see nothing for thunderbird or jabref. Thanks.

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mrtwister (mrtwister) wrote :

libgtk2.0, see https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/gtk+2.0/2.18.3-1ubuntu2.1

"gtk+2.0 (2.18.3-1ubuntu2.1) karmic-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/095_fix_java_clipboard_crash.patch:
    - add to fix (LP: #372103)"

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