[gentoo-amd64] Thunderbird segfaults

[gentoo-amd64] Thunderbird segfaults

[Richard Freeman]

Is anybody else having segfault problems with thunderbird after the latest
upgrade (1.0.7)?  I'm guessing there was a GLSA of some sort as this
version was very rapidly made stable and the old version was removed from
portage.  So, now I'm stuck without a working version.  I guess I can just
manually untar my old binary package, or possibly dig up the old version
out of CVS (sure, security bugs are bad, but a non-working version isn't
much better).

Apparently there have been several segfault issues reported with this
version but these tend to be related to particular messages.  In my case
the problem persists even after getting rid of the .thunderbird directory
- so it can't be profile-related (unless I'm missing something).

I was just curious if there are many others running thunderbird on stable
amd64.  Perhaps the problem does not occur with ~amd64.  I would assume
that somebody tested the package on stable amd64 before marking it stable,
but that might be assuming too much since I get the impression that not
too many around here bother with stable...  :)  In any case, I'm trying to
get an idea of whether this problem is unique to me, or simply the result
of trying to run non-~amd64.
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Thunderbird segfaults

[Sebastian Redl]

Richard Freeman wrote:

>Is anybody else having segfault problems with thunderbird after the latest
>upgrade (1.0.7)?  I'm guessing there was a GLSA of some sort as this
>version was very rapidly made stable and the old version was removed from
>portage.  So, now I'm stuck without a working version.  I guess I can just
>manually untar my old binary package, or possibly dig up the old version
>out of CVS (sure, security bugs are bad, but a non-working version isn't
>much better).
>  
>
I'm running 1.0.7 on a hybrid system (mostly amd64, some ~amd64 stuff 
(split KDE), and since recently the modular xorg, which is even package 
masked).
Unlike the rest of my system, Thunderbird is nearly completely stable. I 
had one crash in two weeks.
(On the other hand, I can bring X down by scrolling through the OOo font 
selection dropdown, so I'm talking about a REALLY unstable system.)

For what it's worth, my emerge info:
Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, 
glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.11-gentoo-r6vesa x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r6vesa x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -fmove-all-movables -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon64"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env 
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config 
/usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config 
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ 
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ 
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -fmove-all-movables -fomit-frame-pointer 
-march=athlon64"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.distfiles.local http://distfiles.gentoo.org 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://192.168.1.1/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X acl acpi alsa apache2 arts avi bash-completion berkdb 
bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread 
emboss encode esd fam firefox flac foomatic foomaticdb fortran gd ggi 
gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 java 
jpeg jpeg2k junit kde kdeenablefinal libwww logitech-mouse lzw lzw-tiff 
mad mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql mysqli nas ncurses nls nptl 
offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt 
quicktime readline samba sdl sndfile spell ssl svg tcltk tcpd tetex 
theora tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales 
vorbis wmf xine xinerama xml xml2 xosd xpm xprint xscreensaver xv zlib 
userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Thunderbird segfaults

[Marco Matthies]

Hi Richard,

i have had no problems (never crashed) with thunderbird 1.07 on a mostly 
amd64 system, the only things from ~amd64 are a few apps where i 
installed newer versions.

Maybe you should try thunderbird-bin? Also you might want to check your 
CFLAGS, thunderbird seems sensitive to this (manages to trigger many gcc 
bugs).

Marco
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Thunderbird segfaults

[Richard Freeman]

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Marco Matthies wrote:
> 
> Maybe you should try thunderbird-bin? Also you might want to check your
> CFLAGS, thunderbird seems sensitive to this (manages to trigger many gcc
> bugs).
> 

Hmm - thought I had tried that, but indeed dropping to just -O2 makes it
work (apparently CFLAGS="-O2" emerge mozilla-thunderbird isn't enough to
get rid of the flags in make.conf).  My guess is that -fstack-protector
is breaking it.  The latest firefox build fails with this flag as well I
believe.  Figures - the two programs which could probably use it most,
but the bug could easily be in gcc itself, and almost certainly is an
upstream issue.

Thanks for the feedback!
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Thunderbird segfaults

[Florian D.]

> I was just curious if there are many others running thunderbird on stable
> amd64.  Perhaps the problem does not occur with ~amd64.  I would assume
I´m running thungerbird on mostly stable amd64, just a few exceptions in 
package.keywords. No crash at all :-)
> that somebody tested the package on stable amd64 before marking it stable,
> but that might be assuming too much since I get the impression that not
> too many around here bother with stable...  :)
I´m sure, the _silent_ majority uses stable amd64
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