I am unable to get Thunderbird to start-up on my Debian machine. The thunderbird package is from “buster”.
I have never tried to get it working before — this is the first time. Firefox works fine.
Here’s what I get when I run it from the command line:
$ thunderbird
ExceptionHandler::GenerateDump cloned child 19926
ExceptionHandler::SendContinueSignalToChild sent continue signal to child
ExceptionHandler::WaitForContinueSignal waiting for continue signal...
If I run thunderbird-bin through strace, it crashes right after a file in /dev/shm is opened:
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/dev/shm/org.chromium.4Awtde", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) =
-1 EACCES (Permission denied)
--- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SEGV_MAPERR, si_addr=0} ---
/dev/shm looks fine:
$ ls -lsdt /dev/shm/
0 drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 120 May 25 13:40 /dev/shm//
ulimit outputs:
$ ulimit -a
core file size (blocks, -c) 200000
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority (-e) 0
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals (-i) 30450
max locked memory (kbytes, -l) unlimited
max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files (-n) 1024
pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200
real-time priority (-r) 95
stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes (-u) 1024
virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
file locks (-x) unlimited
When I run it through gdb, it is crashing in libxul:
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007fbc882e85d1 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
(gdb) where
#0 0x00007fbc882e85d1 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#1 0x00007fbc8715879e in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#2 0x00007fbc871b552c in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#3 0x00007fbc8744995e in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#4 0x00007fbc87a87fb7 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#5 0x00007fbc892a3ed2 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
I’m at a loss as to what to do to get this working.
