Finally - I have the solution (at least for me!).
We are using LDAP for user accounts via pam_ldap.
I did not have nscd (name service cache daemon) installed. Although it makes no
difference to anything else, I did try installing it and
bingo! thunderbird works again.
This is still clearly a
Today I tried something new:
Log out and back into X.
Kill all processes that I owned except X server and terminal (so killed dbus,
gconfd and all manner of things).
mv'ed my *entire* home directory into a subdir called TEMP/ taking care to
include all . (DOT) subdirs
Started thunderbird
Public bug reported:
This is repeatible.
thunderbird --safe-mode also crashes
Removing ~.thunderbird/ does not fix the problem.
Running thunderbird as another user (different home directory, user
never ran thunderbird before) DOES fix the problem and thunderbird
starts normally.
Clearly there
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