Thunderbird fails to launch in unstable branch

[imadnyc]

Describe the bug

Thunderbird doesn't launch on nixos-unstable revision 842d9d8. However, if I go back to 23.11, this works fine.

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Launch thunderbird via CLI

Expected behavior

Expected thunderbird to launch

Additional context

Things I did:

• Launch Thunderbird via CLI
  • Error Logs

    ExceptionHandler::GenerateDump cloned child 32636                                                                                                                                                       
    ExceptionHandler::SendContinueSignalToChild sent continue signal to child                                                                                                                               
    ExceptionHandler::WaitForContinueSignal waiting for continue signal..
    
    

• Click "Tell Mozilla about this crash so they can fix it"
  • After a bit of waiting, get this error

    Failed to open curl lib from binary, use libcurl.so instead
    

  • Thunderbird still says that it sucessfully sent the report

Also, I deleted ~/.thunderbird, and the same crash happens. Again, 23.11 works fine.

Running in safe mode, doing the two checkboxes (each permuatation) also crashes with the same errors. However, continue in troubleshoot mode works. Not sure how to troubleshoot further tbh.

Notify maintainers

@lovesegfault @pierron @vcunat

Metadata

Please run nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m" and paste the result.

➜  ~ nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"                                                                                                                                                          
 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`                                                                                                                                                                             
 - host os: `Linux 6.1.72, NixOS, 23.11 (Tapir), 23.11.20240115.b8dd8be`                                                                                                                                
 - multi-user?: `yes`                                                                                                                                                                                   
 - sandbox: `yes`                                                                                                                                                                                       
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.18.1`                                                                                                                                                                      
 - channels(root): `"nixos-22.11"`                                                                                                                                                                      
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/store/yy19v2dwb8ldphvia9smajvwv3ycx2c1-source`  

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[chewblacka]

Just as a point of reference thunderbird seems to launch fine for me, but I'm on unstable (24.05.20240117.842d9d8). So I think your issue is that you are running 23.11, but pulling in thunderbird from unstable, and it isn't launching?

[imadnyc]

Yes, this is the case. However, shouldn't this not affect it launching? Is there a library that isn't packaged with thunderbird that it's trying to access?

[imadnyc]

I've built my entire system against unstable, and it does seem to launch correctly.

[chewblacka]

I've built my entire system against unstable, and it does seem to launch correctly.

ok, that is strange. I'm not sure what the issue could be.

[vcunat]

Sometimes you get issues when you mix significantly different versions of OS and packages. Usually it's triggered by impurities like OpenGL/mesa or some other plugin mechanisms. Upstream devs typically assume that all "visible" package versions are consistent...

[imadnyc]

Is there an effective way of finding impurities? Or is it just trial and error?

[vcunat]

I'm not aware of a nice way.

[MrKoberman]

I tried both unstable and 23.11 channel, the bug happens using both channels.
It works with thunderbird-unwrapped but the issue there is the pkg is not found as an app, which for my sanity I need.
The same issue is also happening for me on betterbird and thunderbird-bin.

 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 6.7.2, NixOS, 23.11 (Tapir), 23.11.3684.f4a8d6d5324c`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.18.1`
 - channels(root): `"home-manager-23.11.tar.gz, nixos-23.11, unstable"`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos`

[MrKoberman]

This two tickets might be connected - #231347

After I disabled hardware acceleration Thunderbird now starts. It still crashes when I am trying to enter an email account.

[lunik1]

I have the same issue, but I do mix the unstable and stable channels. I'm also having an issue with floorp segfaulting on launch, which could be connected.

edit: floorp does launch in safe mode

[lunik1]

Getting same behaviour from firefox too. Bisected it to the #281828 staging-next merge.

[jmarmstrong1207]

Unstable works fine for me. Is this still a problem for everyone, or can this issue be closed?

[lunik1]

I have stopped mixing the stable and unstable channels

[MrKoberman]

I still have this issue with unstable. And when using stable, screen sharing does not work.

[jmarmstrong1207]

I still have this issue with unstable. And when using stable, screen sharing does not work.

Are the logs the exact same as the original poster's? If not, please share

[imadnyc]

@jmarmstrong1207 This is still an issue, though like @lunik1 I've just stopped mixing the stable and unstable channels. Thunderbird has so many dependencies I can't figure out what's impure. The curl bug is also peculiar, I can't tell what the issue is. From what I can tell, it should be pulling curl from the derivation.