wgilbert5
August 9th, 2010, 05:36 PM
Ok, folks, I thought I had this problem behind me as it hasn't happened in a few months now but I guess not. My Thunderbird mail client is locked up tight and I have tried everything my feeble little mind has thought of to unlock it; have accomplished exactly zero in the unlock department. I am running Ubuntu Linux on a 64 MB machine in 32 MB mode. I have this problem on both my machines with Ubuntu 9.10 and Ubuntu 10.4. When the machine locks in 9.10 it just stops working in whatever program I happen to be running at the time. When it stops working in 10.4 it runs some script and then goes into flashing vertcial bar line, black and white, at the top while leaving the rest of the screen dark. The rest of the programs in the 9.10 mode (Firefox, etc.) seem to work just fine. I can't get back into OS in 10.4 to try running any other programs. Since I installed something to do with Java the other day, (sorry, can't remember what it was), I've had a vertical black mark, 1/2 inch long in the center of my mail screen in Thunderbird. There you have it in a nutshell. Can anyone help or direct me to help in this dilemma? It would save what little hair I have left on my head.;)