id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
3172	Glibc bug	Armin	lfs-book@…	"{{{
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thunderbird: res_query.c:251: __libc_res_nquery: Assertion `hp != hp2' failed.
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It is mentioned here:

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13013

And as it says, it just happens under some conditions. This is at least 20th time today I started thunderbird and it just crashed once with that error.

Archlinux has a patch for it:

https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/plain/trunk/glibc-2.15-fix-res_query-assert.patch?h=packages/glibc"	defect	closed	normal	7.2	Book	SVN	normal	fixed