Bug#1014675: thunderbird: Upgrade breaks NNTP

[kjonca]

Package: thunderbird
Version: 1:102.0.1-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

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* What led up to the situation?

aptitude safe-upgrade

* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?

I upgraded thunderbird Upgrade: thunderbird:amd64 (1:91.9.0-1, 1:102.0.1-1)

* What was the outcome of this action?

I have noticed that I cannot access my local nntp server.(Waiting sign was for a long time, and I decided to break)
no nntp messages were displayed.
I have no additions.
I have decided to create new profile with the same accounts (I have one imap and one nntp) configured.
On new profile everything seems to work.

* What outcome did you expect instead?

Old profile would work with thunderbbird.


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-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers oldoldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages thunderbird depends on:
ii debianutils 5.7-0.2
ii fontconfig 2.13.1-4.4
ii libasound2 1.2.7.1-1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.38.0-1
ii libc6 2.33-7
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.16.0-5
ii libcairo2 1.16.0-5
ii libdbus-1-3 1.14.0-1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.112-2
ii libevent-2.1-7 2.1.12-stable-5+b1
ii libffi8 3.4.2-4
ii libfontconfig1 2.13.1-4.4
ii libfreetype6 2.12.1+dfsg-3
ii libgcc-s1 12.1.0-5
ii libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.42.8+dfsg-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.72.3-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.34-1
ii libicu71 71.1-3
ii libnspr4 2:4.34-1
ii libnss3 2:3.79-1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.50.7+ds-1
ii librnp0 0.16.0-1
ii libstdc++6 12.1.0-5
ii libvpx7 1.11.0-2
ii libx11-6 2:1.7.5-1
ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.7.5-1
ii libxcb-shm0 1.14-3
ii libxcb1 1.14-3
ii libxext6 2:1.3.4-1
ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.2-2+b1
ii psmisc 23.5-1
ii x11-utils 7.7+5
ii zenity 3.42.1-2
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-4

Versions of packages thunderbird recommends:
ii hunspell-en-us [hunspell-dictionary] 1:2020.12.07-2
ii hunspell-pl [hunspell-dictionary] 1:7.2.0-2

Versions of packages thunderbird suggests:
ii apparmor 3.0.4-3
ii fonts-lyx 2.3.6.1-1
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.19.2-2+b2

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/thunderbird/pref/thunderbird.js changed:
// This is the Debian specific preferences file for Mozilla Thunderbird
// You can make any change in here, it is the purpose of this file.
// You can, with this file and all files present in the directory
//
// /etc/thunderbird/pref directory
//
// override any preference that is present in the directory
//
// /usr/lib/thunderbird/defaults/pref
//
// While your changes will be kept on upgrade if you modify files in
// /etc/thunderbird/pref, please note that they won't be kept if you
// do them in /usr/lib/thunderbird/defaults/pref.
pref("extensions.update.enabled", true);
// Use LANG environment variable to choose locale from system
// The old environment setting 'pref("intl.locale.matchOS", true);' is
// currently not working anymore. The new introduced setting
// 'intl.locale.requested' is now used for this. Setting an empty string is
// pulling the system locale into Thunderbird.
pref("intl.locale.requested", "");
// Disable default mail checking (gnome).
pref("mail.shell.checkDefaultMail", false);
// Disable default mail client check
pref("mail.shell.checkDefaultClient", false);
// if you are not using gnome
//pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "x-www-browser");
//pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "x-www-browser");
// This setting is a workaround for some crashes inside the JS engine.
// By this Thunderbird will use more memory and acting slower as the sharing
// memory between interacting JS files is disabled.
pref ("javascript.options.baselinejit", false);
// Uncomment the follwing setting if you want to have a extra mail header field
// for X-Debbugs-Cc, only needed in case you have to work with the Debian
// Bug Tracking System more deeply
//pref("mail.compose.other.header", "X-Debbugs-Cc");


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[Carsten Schoenert]

Hello kjonca,

Am 10.07.22 um 10:01 schrieb kjonca:

> I have noticed that I cannot access my local nntp server.(Waiting sign was for a long time, and I decided to break)
> no nntp messages were displayed.
> I have no additions.
> I have decided to create new profile with the same accounts (I have one imap and one nntp) configured.
> On new profile everything seems to work.

please recheck with an upstream binary package (select your preferred
language).

https://download-origin.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/thunderbird/releases/102.0.1/linux-x86_64/

Extract the tarball and start the thunderbird binary from the folder the
tarball was extracted.

I expect you will see the same behavior as with the Debian package. If
so then your issue needs to get reported at the upstream bug tracker and
linked together with this report.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/home

My guess right now is that something along with the ciphers you use
isn't accepted anymore.

--
Regards
Carsten

[Kamil Jońca]

Carsten Schoenert <c.sch...@t-online.de> writes:

> Hello kjonca,
>
> Am 10.07.22 um 10:01 schrieb kjonca:
>
>> I have noticed that I cannot access my local nntp server.(Waiting sign was for a long time, and I decided to break)
>> no nntp messages were displayed.
>> I have no additions.
>> I have decided to create new profile with the same accounts (I have one imap and one nntp) configured.
>> On new profile everything seems to work.
>
> please recheck with an upstream binary package (select your preferred
> language).
>
> https://download-origin.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/thunderbird/releases/102.0.1/linux-x86_64/

Will try.

But it seems that I was wrong. After using for a while new profile
started to behave the same (wrong) way as old (i.e. I cannot use NNTP) so I
believe something is broken in NNTP in Thunderbird 102.

>
> Extract the tarball and start the thunderbird binary from the folder
> the tarball was extracted.
>
> I expect you will see the same behavior as with the Debian package. If
> so then your issue needs to get reported at the upstream bug tracker
> and linked together with this report.
>
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/home
>
> My guess right now is that something along with the ciphers you use
> isn't accepted anymore.

I am pretty sure no. This nntp server has no encryption configured (it
is my small home server.)

KJ




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[Kamil Jońca]

It seems to be https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1745033
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[Milan Broz]

Today's unstable update to 102.0.2-1 breaks NNTP completely for me.

Reading the upstream bug link, I tried to disable master password, then
it was somehow able to connect to one server, but never to others (I have 3 NNTP accounts in my profile).

So this is a quite major regression...

Milan

[eric]

Package: thunderbird
Version: 1:102.0.2-1
Followup-For: Bug #1014675

I can confirm nntp account is broken as welle as newgroup subscription.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid

APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash

Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages thunderbird depends on:
ii debianutils 5.7-0.2
ii fontconfig 2.13.1-4.4

ii kdialog 4:21.12.3-1
ii libasound2 1.2.7.1-1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.45.1-1
ii libc6 2.34-0experimental5
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.16.0-6
ii libcairo2 1.16.0-6

ii libdbus-1-3 1.14.0-1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.112-2
ii libevent-2.1-7 2.1.12-stable-5+b1
ii libffi8 3.4.2-4
ii libfontconfig1 2.13.1-4.4
ii libfreetype6 2.12.1+dfsg-3
ii libgcc-s1 12.1.0-5
ii libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.42.8+dfsg-1

ii libglib2.0-0 2.73.2-1

ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.34-1
ii libicu71 71.1-3
ii libnspr4 2:4.34-1
ii libnss3 2:3.79-1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.50.7+ds-1

ii librnp0 0.17.0~git20220428-1
ii libstdc++6 12.1.0-5
ii libvpx7 1.12.0-1

ii libx11-6 2:1.7.5-1
ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.7.5-1
ii libxcb-shm0 1.14-3
ii libxcb1 1.14-3
ii libxext6 2:1.3.4-1
ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.2-2+b1
ii psmisc 23.5-1
ii x11-utils 7.7+5
ii zenity 3.42.1-2
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-4

Versions of packages thunderbird recommends:
ii hunspell-en-us [hunspell-dictionary] 1:2020.12.07-2

ii hunspell-fr-classical [hunspell-dictionary] 1:7.0-1

Versions of packages thunderbird suggests:
ii apparmor 3.0.4-3
ii fonts-lyx 2.3.6.1-1

ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.20~beta1-1

-- no debconf information

[Eric Valette]

Read that in a bug upstream. Tried it and it worked for me.

-- eric

[Eric Valette]

Apparently fixed upstream. May we have a hint on 102.0.3 arrival.


I know it is vacation period but...

Regards,

--eric

[Kamil Jońca]

I just installed thunderbird 102.1 - bug still exists. It should be reopen.
KJ
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[Eric Valette]

See:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1745033#c59