at least for me, the bug disappeared with the upgrade to ubuntu 12.04 and thunderbird 12.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/689453 Title: thunderbird uses 100% CPU and doesn't terminate if quit during connection Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News: Fix Released Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: I have the same problem: TB consumes almost 100% of one core all the time. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101208 Thunderbird/3.1.7 uname -a: Linux golem 2.6.32-26-generic-pae #48-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 24 10:31:20 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS" ############ Binary package hint: thunderbird If I quit thunderbird normally while in the 'looking up' or other stage of connecting to a mail server, the process does not terminate, and thunderbird-bin uses 100% CPU on waiting channel 0. natty thunderbird 3.1.7+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2 uname Linux delan1 2.6.37-8-server #21-Ubuntu SMP Sun Dec 5 18:13:15 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/689453/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
