Thunderbird 2.0 dumps core on second file open op (workaround)

[Howard Goldstein]

Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote:
> Michel Le Cocq wrote:
>> I think it's a global thunderbird 2 bug, because i have exactly the 
>> same trouble ona mac os 10.4 with a binary update.
> 
> I do not think it is exactly the same -- see below.
> 
>> Howard Goldstein a écrit :
>>> Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote:
>>>> Drew Sanford wrote:
>>>>  > No, but I am seeing it core dump rather strangely. Each time it 
>>>> starts
>>>>  > up, I can open a file dialog box to save an attachment or attach a
>>>>  > file one time just fine. The second time I try to attach or save a
>>>>  > file on any start up, it crashes.
>>>>
>>>> BTW: Firefox 2.0.X does the same. Use "Save Link As..." a few times 
>>>> in a row (2 is usually sufficient) and have a core dump.
>>>>
>>>> I had this happen with Firefox 2.0.X and Thunderbird 2.0.0 that I 
>>>> compiled myself as well as with this one (on 6.2-RELEASE): 
>>>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/www/firefox-2.0.0.3,1.tbz 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I guess someone should file a bug report...
>>>
>>> Looks like the same problem at ports/105589, perhaps it needs to be 
>>> reopened, seems to be the same problem.  Haven't tried the 
>>> workaround. Not sure how to do that on someone else's gnats.  (cc to 
>>> the gnats person who closed it)
> 
> After reading the discussion in the PR, I renamed libgnome-2.so.0 and 
> tried again: no crashes with Firefox 2.0.3 or Thunderbird 2.0.0. I do 
> run KDE -- I probably should compile Firefox and Thunderbird without the 
> gnome dependencies to solve it for me.

I wish I'd googled for KDE along with this as the problem was apparently 
fixed once for KDE, although for some reason came back again now for 
some of us.  Here's a link to the very same bug along with a fix that 
was targeted only for KDE

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2006-December/016299.html

Based on your find Jan it's fairly simple to workaround this in the 
2.0.0.0 Makefile by disabling gnomeui and gnomevfs linkages.  Here's my 
diff which also includes tiny cruft disabling ldap during the build 
since I can't build an LDAPable thunderbird2 on my system.

(before the diff, following up, reverting CFLAGS to -O -pipe and the 
default CPUTYPE didn't help, neither did installing gnome2)

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*** mail/thunderbird/Makefile.orig	Fri Apr 27 18:00:27 2007
--- mail/thunderbird/Makefile	Fri Apr 27 19:15:58 2007
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*** 17,23 ****
  COMMENT=	Mozilla Thunderbird is standalone mail and news that stands above
  
  CONFLICTS=	lightning-0.[0-9]*
! WANT_GNOME=	yes
  ALL_TARGET=	default
  CONFIGURE_ENV=	LOCALBASE=${LOCALBASE}
  HAS_CONFIGURE=	yes
--- 17,25 ----
  COMMENT=	Mozilla Thunderbird is standalone mail and news that stands above
  
  CONFLICTS=	lightning-0.[0-9]*
! #hgWANT_GNOME=	yes
! WANT_GNOME=	no
! #hg
  ALL_TARGET=	default
  CONFIGURE_ENV=	LOCALBASE=${LOCALBASE}
  HAS_CONFIGURE=	yes
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*** 31,36 ****
--- 33,41 ----
  MOZ_GRAPHICS=	default,-xbm
  MOZ_OPTIONS=	--enable-single-profile --disable-profilesharing	\
  		--enable-application=mail --enable-official-branding
+ #hg
+ MOZ_OPTIONS+=	--disable-ldap  --disable-gnomeui --disable-gnomevfs
+ #hg
  MOZ_MK_OPTIONS=	MOZ_MOZ_THUNDERBIRD=1
  MOZ_EXPORT=	MOZ_THUNDERBIRD=1