Control: merge 857029 857032 I can confirm that the suggested fix by Simon in #857029 fixes the problem for me, i.e., removing all the comments from the lines here in Thunderbird's startup bash script in /usr/bin/thunderbird:
elif { [ -d "${ID_PROFILE_FOLDER}" ] || [ -L "${ID_PROFILE_FOLDER}" ]; } && \ # .icedove exists as folder or symlink { [ -d "${TB_PROFILE_FOLDER}" ] || [ -L "${TB_PROFILE_FOLDER}" ]; } && \ # .thunderbird exists as folder or symlink [ "$(readlink -e "${TB_PROFILE_FOLDER}")" != "${ID_PROFILE_FOLDER}" ]; then # compare if canonical name of both folders equal Therefore merging both bugs. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913