Alexander Sack wrote:
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 07:10:43PM -0400, Jeffrey Bonevich wrote:
I downloaded the source from mozilla and installed and that worked. It
occurs to me that prior to upgrading thunderbird via dselect it was
pulling configuration and mail folders from ~/.mozilla-thunderbird. I
noticed that the source install set up a .thunderbird directory. So I
moved the old directory to this new location and voila! the debian
version runs fine now. It would have been nice to know that this was
the problem, but c'est la vi.
This defect can be close if you want. If you need more feedback, let me
know.
Sorry, I guess I do not understand for sure:
The debian package, aka thunderbird still uses the
.mozilla-thunderbird directory.
Can you please rephrase what your problem was, how you came into that
situation and how you finally fixed it?
Thanks.
- Alexander
I did a dselect a couple of days ago, and thunderbird was one of the
packages to be upgraded (I am running Debian testing). I also removed
the mozilla-thunderbird transitional package at that time. Thunderbird
had been running fine previously. After the update, no dice. When I
try to start thunderbird (via GNOME or via command-line in an xterm)
nothing happens. No process; ps auxw shows nothing related to
thunderbird. So I try to run thunderbird via /usr/lib/thunderbird-bin
from the command line and get a message that it cannot find the library
libxpcom.so. So I add /usr/lib/thunderbird to my LD_LIBRARY_PATH
environment variable, and retry. Still nothing happens, no feedback
from either /usr/bin/thunderbird or /usr/lib/thunderbird-bin. Nothing
in any logs anywhere either (no /var/log/messages or /var/log/Xorg.0.log
entries).
Without any other clue how to proceed, tonight I installed thunderbird
from a direct download of the binary (sorry, I said source before, but
it was not) from mozilla.org. Once installed in a temp directory,
thunderbird ran fine (I got the import screen, etc.). I quit this
thunderbird process, and noticed that a new .thunderbird directory had
been created in my home directory. I removed this directory, and
created a symlink to my old .mozilla-thunderbird directory named
.thunderbird, and restarted thunderbird from /usr/bin and it worked
now. Removing the symlink does not change anything so I can confirm
that .mozilla-thunderbird works fine.
I do not know what fixed the issue, but installing the binary from
mozilla.org seems to have done the trick for me.
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