thunderbird won't start automatically sometimes - where is the log?

[hachel]

Hi,
I added thunderbird to the startup-applications under system->preferences->startup apps.
Sometimes it starts fine and sometimes it doesn't.
In which of the many logs can I check what went wrong?

[dvlchd3]

I would just change the startup command to something like:

thunderbird > ~/tbird.log

This will put any errors normally printed to the console into the tbird.log file in your home directory. I'm not sure if thunderbird normally logs anything anywhere else. I know firefox is a pain to get any detailed debugging information out of... :-/

[hachel]

I've found out that thunderbird only doesn't start when I boot from a complete power off. When I merely reboot it starts.
I've tried with the log-file and it doesn't even create the file, whereas when I run that command in the terminal it creates it, empty though. Therefore in my opinion it looks like it doesn't run the command at all on startup.

Is there not a system-log I can check?

Cheers,

hachel

[kellemes]

Lot of logs in /var/log