{"id":613,"date":"2014-02-15T10:20:55","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T09:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.thogersens.net\/?p=613"},"modified":"2014-02-15T10:20:55","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T09:20:55","slug":"thunderbird-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/?p=613","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbird problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because I had messed up my Kbuntu installation I had to reinstall using the latest version.
\nIts always fun to setup a “new” PC but as usually I had forgot a lot of the problems and one of them was Thunderbird.<\/p>\n

I have a Raspberry Pi as dns, dhcp and ldap server and everything works fine.
\nSo I had the new PC using LDAP as authorization and everything was working fine.<\/p>\n

Next was to install Thunderbird and it running fine except when I tried to add a new email account then Thunderbird crashed with a segment fault.<\/p>\n

I tried all kinds of hacks to get is working but nothing helped. So what I should have done from the start was to install the Thunderbird debug symbols and debug the crash.<\/p>\n

It showed a problem with LDAP and then fail code from the debugging session got me to a very old bug (2006) with Thunderbird and LDAP which is still not fixed.<\/p>\n

The workaround is to install nscd (Embedded GNU C Library: Name Service Cache Daemon).<\/p>\n

$>sudo apt-get install nscd<\/strong><\/pre>\n
After the service was installed and running Thunderbird could add email accounts \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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