On 2017-08-12 12:28 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > I'm running Thunderbird on a Debian/Buster system but my profile is > stored on a Debian/Stretch server. I've been doing it this way for > years. > > When I brought my systems back up yesterday, everything seems OK (in > fact noticeably faster than before - including accessing files on my > network shares). However Thunderbird is almost unusable. > > When I start Thunderbird, even in safe mode, it launches OK but the > panels don't draw themselves.
That's https://bugs.debian.org/871629. Remedy: upgrade thunderbird to 1:52.2.1-5 from sid or downgrade to 1:52.2.1-4. Cheers, Sven