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 bug - but at least I have a workaround. Could this be your problem too Christian? Cheers, Tim -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1187724 Title: thunderbird crashes at startup To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1187724/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs