Antonio Tavares
January 18th, 2009, 04:22 PM
I have a laptop running Windows on one partition and Ubuntu 8.10 on the other. Since one year ago, I'm using Ubuntu 99% of the time. I have Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 installed and I was sharing the profile on both operating systems with no problem.
Unfortunately a month ago a problem with Thunderbird in Ubuntu started appearing. Sometimes I pressed the icon to start Thunderbird and nothing appeared. 2 processes were running (thunderbird and thunderbird-bin). After rebooting in Windows and back to Ubuntu it was running again. But since one week ago I can't start the email interface even going to terminal and typing thunderbird -safe-mode. The process doesn't appear doing ALT-TAB, but it always shows in the process list like follows:
tota@portota:~$ ps -edaf | grep thunderbird
tota 13235 9842 0 15:04 pts/0 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/thunderbird -safe-mode
tota 13248 13235 0 15:04 pts/0 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/thunderbird/run-mozilla.sh /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin -safe-mode
tota 13252 13248 22 15:04 pts/0 00:00:01 /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin -safe-mode
tota 13266 13166 0 15:04 pts/1 00:00:00 grep thunderbird
I've googled this as much as I could and gone through the "Standard Diagnostic (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Thunderbird)" with no results. Reinstall doesn't work. If I delete the profile, Thunderbird allows me to reconfigure a new one and then the window dies. I see nothing on system logs, and no errors on the terminal.
Thunderbird still works on Windows, but I want to avoid using it since the time Ubuntu 8.10 brought real support for 3G network connections. It's very annoying having to reboot several times a day.
Can anyone help me avoid reinstalling Ubuntu Intrepid?
Thunderbird is essential to me and I can't trust any other email client (Evolution for example doesn't install on Windows).
Unfortunately a month ago a problem with Thunderbird in Ubuntu started appearing. Sometimes I pressed the icon to start Thunderbird and nothing appeared. 2 processes were running (thunderbird and thunderbird-bin). After rebooting in Windows and back to Ubuntu it was running again. But since one week ago I can't start the email interface even going to terminal and typing thunderbird -safe-mode. The process doesn't appear doing ALT-TAB, but it always shows in the process list like follows:
tota@portota:~$ ps -edaf | grep thunderbird
tota 13235 9842 0 15:04 pts/0 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/thunderbird -safe-mode
tota 13248 13235 0 15:04 pts/0 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/thunderbird/run-mozilla.sh /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin -safe-mode
tota 13252 13248 22 15:04 pts/0 00:00:01 /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin -safe-mode
tota 13266 13166 0 15:04 pts/1 00:00:00 grep thunderbird
I've googled this as much as I could and gone through the "Standard Diagnostic (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Thunderbird)" with no results. Reinstall doesn't work. If I delete the profile, Thunderbird allows me to reconfigure a new one and then the window dies. I see nothing on system logs, and no errors on the terminal.
Thunderbird still works on Windows, but I want to avoid using it since the time Ubuntu 8.10 brought real support for 3G network connections. It's very annoying having to reboot several times a day.
Can anyone help me avoid reinstalling Ubuntu Intrepid?
Thunderbird is essential to me and I can't trust any other email client (Evolution for example doesn't install on Windows).