Thunderbird 2.0 dumps core on second file open op

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Fri Apr 27 00:59:17 UTC 2007


Robert Huff wrote:
> Howard Goldstein writes:
> 
>>  > Could everyone affected by this issue document a few more steps of what 
>>  > they do to cause Thunderbird to coredump, please?
>>  
>>  1. start thunderbird
>>  2. ^M or click on the write message label
>>  3. attach any file
>>  4. send an email to self, garbage or empty message, take the default 
>>  subject or change it to garbage.
>>  5. ^M to compose another message
>>  6. at any point from this point on , attaching a file will coredump
> 
> 
> 	While this is apples and kumquats, I don't get this behavoior
> with:
> 
> huff at jerusalem>> uname -a
> FreeBSD jerusalem.litteratus.org 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Mar 13 22:38:20 EST 2007     huff at jerusalem.litteratus.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JERUSALEM  i386
> 
> 	and:
> 
> 	thunderbird 2.0.0.0
> 	gnome-vfs-2.18.1
> 	libgnome-2.18.0
> 
> 
> 				Robert Huff

Interesting indeed.

Did you build thunderbird with custom cflags, and have to tried getting 
a backtrace for all of the calls made from thunderbird using the 
coredump and gdb?

-Garrett


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