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GolanTrevize
December 2nd, 2009, 12:17 PM
hello,
I'm running 9.04 since 6 months now. Unfortunately there are some bad crash situations:

I skipped evolution now - it was deadly slow in the end, though I did not install anything for it. It reads the imap server of an exchange server and each day it got slower (in the beginning I thought it was crashed, but after waiting for about 5 to ten minutes it started anyway - very strange)
I threw away the old configuration and reconfigured everything - but the result was the same.

Therefore I changed to thunderbird: But now thunderbird crashes at least once a day. That would not be so bad, if it would not be necessary to log out and in again, so that thunderbird starts again. There seems no pattern, why it crashes. Sometimes it crashes, while double-clicking a lighning-calendar event. Sometimes, when accepting an appointment. Though both of these are lightning functionalities, it also crashed, when writing a mail (right in the middle of it ) or just clicking around in the gui.

Is there something I can kill, so at least I don't have to shut down everything for relogging in ?

Then firefox crashes - mostly when I try to click on a bookmark in my sidebar - restarting and clicking on the sidebar bookmarks crashes firefox again, while choosing a bookmark from the menu seems to work. After logging in again everything seems to work fine again - so it crashes on some data, that are cleaned while logging out - same as with thunderbird.

These two might be mozilla issues. But then also Almanah crashes once and then without warning. At least almanah can be restarted without any problems. The fact that these three applications crash in such a unmannerly way and without warning, and the fact that at least almanah has nothing to do with the mozilla project, makes me think, that the problem might be somewhere in the gnome-desktop I am using.

Are there any known issues, that address these problems?
I do not get any error logging in .xsession-errors
Is there something I can do against it?

regards
golan

GolanTrevize
December 2nd, 2009, 01:15 PM
enabling core, starting thunderbird from the commandline and debugging the core, I see only the following:


Core was generated by `/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
[New process 11995]
[New process 12002]
[New process 11996]
[New process 11998]
[New process 12003]
[New process 11997]
[New process 12001]
#0 0xb8088430 in __kernel_vsyscall ()


Backtrace


(gdb) bt
#0 0xb8088430 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1 0xb7ecb4b0 in raise () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
#2 0x08057c3e in ?? ()
#3 <signal handler called>
#4 0xb743e078 in strcmp () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#5 0xb5b8caba in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libwidget_gtk2.so
#6 0xb7fb0209 in XPTC_InvokeByIndex () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxpcom_core.so
#7 0xb5bda370 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libxpconnect.so
#8 0xb5be2d4a in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libxpconnect.so
#9 0xb8014322 in js_Invoke () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libmozjs.so
#10 0xb801678e in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libmozjs.so
#11 0xb80149f7 in js_Invoke () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libmozjs.so
#12 0xb5bd7788 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libxpconnect.so
#13 0xb5bd2193 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libxpconnect.so
#14 0xb7fb0deb in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxpcom_core.so
#15 0xb7fb0209 in XPTC_InvokeByIndex () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxpcom_core.so
#16 0xb5bda370 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libxpconnect.so
#17 0xb5be2d4a in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libxpconnect.so
#18 0xb8014322 in js_Invoke () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libmozjs.so
#19 0xb801678e in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libmozjs.so
#20 0xb80149f7 in js_Invoke () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libmozjs.so
#21 0xb8013df6 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libmozjs.so
#22 0xb7fdfc50 in JS_CallFunctionValue () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libmozjs.so
#23 0xb36fe88a in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libgklayout.so
#24 0xb373ece9 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libgklayout.so
#25 0xb36006e0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libgklayout.so
#26 0xb3602391 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libgklayout.so
#27 0xb36d1e81 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libgklayout.so
#28 0xb36d81d7 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libgklayout.so
#29 0xb7fb0209 in XPTC_InvokeByIndex () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxpcom_core.so
#30 0xb5bda370 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libxpconnect.so
#31 0xb5be2d4a in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libxpconnect.so
#32 0xb8014322 in js_Invoke () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libmozjs.so
#33 0xb801678e in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libmozjs.so
#34 0xb80149f7 in js_Invoke () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libmozjs.so
#35 0xb8013df6 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libmozjs.so
#36 0xb7fdfc50 in JS_CallFunctionValue () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libmozjs.so
#37 0xb36fe88a in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libgklayout.so
#38 0xb371786a in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libgklayout.so
#39 0xb371798c in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libgklayout.so
#40 0xb7f9aa2d in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxpcom_core.so
#41 0xb7f9ab80 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxpcom_core.so
#42 0xb7f95fd7 in PL_HandleEvent () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxpcom_core.so
#43 0xb7f962dd in PL_ProcessPendingEvents () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxpcom_core.so
#44 0xb7f97ed8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxpcom_core.so
#45 0xb5b88805 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libwidget_gtk2.so
#46 0xb77b4dad in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#47 0xb777db88 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#48 0xb77810eb in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#49 0xb77815ba in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#50 0xb7c377d9 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#51 0xb5b88e66 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libwidget_gtk2.so
#52 0xb5ab0287 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/libtoolkitcomps.so
#53 0x0804fd7a in ?? ()
#54 0x0804ad2f in ?? ()
#55 0xb73dd775 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#56 0x0804ac51 in ?? ()

GolanTrevize
December 2nd, 2009, 02:40 PM
Part of the solution:

thunderbird -safe-mode

then quit and afterward start it normally and it will at least work again.

As much for my first question.