Thunderbird issue

[Philip A. Prindeville]

On 02/01/2010 09:59 AM, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> I was trying to read my email this AM using TB, but it had hung up. 
> So I killed it by clicking on the end process button and selecting the
> force quit.  When I tried to restart TB it's hung up again.  Nothing
> is displayed, but doing a ps shows 3 processes.
>
> [pgaltieri at peglaptop ~]$ ps axlw | grep thunderbird
> 0   500   472     1  20   0 105584  1220 wait   S    ?          0:00
> /bin/sh /usr/lib64/thunderbird-3.0/thunderbird
> 0   500   476   472  20   0 105584  1308 wait   S    ?          0:00
> /bin/sh /usr/lib64/thunderbird-3.0/run-mozilla.sh
> /usr/lib64/thunderbird-3.0/thunderbird-bin
> 0   500   480   476  20   0 593124 82292 sock_a Sl   ?          0:02
> /usr/lib64/thunderbird-3.0/thunderbird-bin
> 0   500   653   601  20   0 102732   784 -      R+   pts/13     0:00
> grep thunderbird
>
> If I run strace on the third of these I get:
>
> [pgaltieri at peglaptop ~]$ strace -f -p 480
> Process 480 attached with 6 threads - interrupt to quit
> [pid   486] futex(0x7ff08878954c, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 19, NULL
> <unfinished ...>
> [pid   480] write(46,
> "\373\377\377\377\3\0\10\0\f\0\21\0\24\0\25\0\25\0\24\0\22\0\20\0\16\0\f\0\v\0\n\0"...,
> 9254 <unfinished ...>

What does "lsof -p 480" tell you that file descriptor corresponds to?

And what files does 482 have open?


> [pid   481] restart_syscall(<... resuming interrupted call ...>
> <unfinished ...>
> [pid   482] restart_syscall(<... resuming interrupted call ...>
> <unfinished ...>
> [pid   483] restart_syscall(<... resuming interrupted call ...>
> <unfinished ...>
> [pid   485] futex(0x7ff08c65884c, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 5, NULL
> <unfinished ...>
> [pid   482] <... restart_syscall resumed> ) = -1 ETIMEDOUT (Connection
> timed out)
> [pid   482] futex(0x7ff092e27ab0, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 0
> [pid   482] futex(0x7ff09a38a18c,
> FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET_PRIVATE|FUTEX_CLOCK_REALTIME, 819, {1265046952,
> 423989000}, ffffffff) = -1 ETIMEDOUT (Connection timed out)
> [pid   482] futex(0x7ff092e27ab0, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 0
> [pid   482] futex(0x7ff09a38a18c,
> FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET_PRIVATE|FUTEX_CLOCK_REALTIME, 821, {1265046953,
> 424132000}, ffffffff) = -1 ETIMEDOUT (Connection timed out)
> [pid   482] futex(0x7ff092e27ab0, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 0
> [pid   482] futex(0x7ff09a38a18c,
> FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET_PRIVATE|FUTEX_CLOCK_REALTIME, 823, {1265046954,
> 424284000}, ffffffff) = -1 ETIMEDOUT (Connection timed out)
> [pid   482] futex(0x7ff092e27ab0, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 0
> [pid   482] futex(0x7ff09a38a18c,
> FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET_PRIVATE|FUTEX_CLOCK_REALTIME, 825, {1265046955,
> 424430000}, ffffffff) = -1 ETIMEDOUT (Connection timed out)
> [pid   482] futex(0x7ff092e27ab0, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 0
> [pid   482] futex(0x7ff09a38a18c,
> FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET_PRIVATE|FUTEX_CLOCK_REALTIME, 827, {1265046956,
> 424573000}, ffffffff) = -1 ETIMEDOUT (Connection timed out)
> [pid   482] futex(0x7ff092e27ab0, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 0
> [pid   482] futex(0x7ff09a38a18c,
> FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET_PRIVATE|FUTEX_CLOCK_REALTIME, 829, {1265046957,
> 424721000}, ffffffff^C <unfinished ...>
> Process 480 detached
> Process 481 detached
> Process 482 detached
> Process 483 detached
> Process 485 detached
> Process 486 detached
>
> After 10 minutes TB still has not displayed my email.  I've tried
> killing and restarting thunderbird, but the same thing happens.  I've
> not yet tried rebooting, but it seems strange that TB can get into a
> state that requires a reboot to correct.
>
> Paolo