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[Dan Woodard <507089@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a similar problem.  I'm adding what may be more details to aid in
solving.  I use LDAP for authentication and I have nscd installed.
Thunderbird has been working without issue until yesterday when I
changed hosts in nsswitch.conf to use ldap as shown below;

Changed:
hosts:          files dns [NOTFOUND=return]
to the following;
hosts:          files ldap dns [NOTFOUND=return]

This change resulted in seg faults with no other warning.  I was able to
create an alternate user profile and that would work, but when trying to
get back to the current user, the seg fault would return.  Once I
changed nsswitch.conf back to using dns, the app starts without issue.

My release;
Linux bari.iqanalog.com 2.6.32-33-generic #72-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 29 21:07:13 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS"
Thunderbird 3.1.13

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Title:
  thunderbird shredder always segfaults on startup with LDAP auth in
  nsswitch

Status in SeaMonkey: all-in-one Internet application suite:
  New
Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News:
  In Progress
Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: thunderbird

  If nsswitch.conf is set with:

  passwd:         compat ldap
  group:          compat ldap
  shadow:         compat ldap

  My ldap config does work as I'm using it for login authentication.

  thunderbird-3.0 always segfaults:

  0 %> thunderbird-3.0
  Segmentation fault
  0 %> thunderbird-3.0 --g-fatal-warnings 
  Segmentation fault
  139 %> thunderbird-3.0 -options           
  Segmentation fault
  139 %> thunderbird-3.0 -safe-mode
  Segmentation fault
  139 %> thunderbird-3.0 -ProfileManager
  Segmentation fault
  139 %> 

  ...even with no .thunderbird-30 dir:

   %> thunderbird-3.0 -ProfileManager 
  *INFO* No /users/bedge/.thunderbird-3.0 detected. Create it from /users/bedge/.mozilla-thunderbird
  Segmentation fault
  0 9:12:52 bedge@ice  ~
  139 %> 

  Changing nsswitch back to NIS works:

  passwd:         compat nis
  group:          compat nis
  shadow:         compat nis

  1 %> dpkg -l thunderbird\*
  Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
  | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
  |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
  ||/ Name                        Version                     Description
  +++-===========================-===========================-======================================================================
  ii  thunderbird                 2.0.0.23+build1+nobinonly-0 mail/news client with RSS and integrated spam filter support
  ii  thunderbird-3.0             3.0~rc3~micahg+nobinonly-0u mail/news client with RSS and integrated spam filter support
  ii  thunderbird-3.0-gnome-suppo 3.0~rc3~micahg+nobinonly-0u Support for Gnome in Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0
  ii  thunderbird-dispmua         1.6.4.3-1ubuntu1            Display Mail User Agent extension (transitional package)
  ii  thunderbird-gnome-support   2.0.0.23+build1+nobinonly-0 Support for Gnome in Mozilla Thunderbird
  ii  thunderbird-locale-en-gb    1:2.0.0.14+1-0ubuntu2       Thunderbird English language/region package
  ii  thunderbird-nostalgy        0.2.16+svn151-1ubuntu1      keyboard shortcut extension for thunderbird
  ii  thunderbird-quickfile       0.17.0.0011-0ubuntu4        faster mail filing for the Thunderbird mail client
  ii  thunderbird-traybiff        1.2.3-4.2ubuntu2            traybiff - new mail alert for thunderbird

  
  WORKAROUND: Installing the nscd package solves this issue in most cases.

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