As of Thunderbird 16, Thunderbird is apparently back to looking in /usr/lib/thunderbird/defaults/pref and ignoring /etc/thunderbird/pref. (At least, strace'ing can find no attempts by Thunderbird to look in /etc/thunderbird for anything). No mention of this is made in the changelog.
This is incredibly annoying from a site configuration standpoint. -- 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/638211 Title: Thunderbird prefs file references /usr/lib/thunderbird which doesn't exist Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: thunderbird Thunderbird 3.0.7+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 fails to look in /usr/lib/thunderbird for configuration files. It now only looks in /usr/lib/thunderbird-3.0.7. This is in direct conflict with /etc/thunderbird/pref/thunderbird.js, which says: """ // You can, with this file and all files present in the // /etc/thunderbird/pref directory, override any preference that is // present in /usr/lib/thunderbird/defaults/pref directory. """ For our site configuration, we set a new value for general.config.filename, and store that file in /usr/lib/thunderbird. This worked fine in Jaunty and Karmic. However, under Lucid, this causes Thunderbird to unfortunately exit with "Failed to read the configuration file", since it's looking for our config file in /usr/lib/thunderbird-3.0.7. If this is the new upstream behavior, that's fine, but then the comments in /etc/thunderbird/pref/thunderbird.js need to be updated to replace this. Additionally, it would be nice if there was some way to programmatically determine the name of that directory that was something other than "dpkg-query and sed". To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/638211/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
