On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:58 PM, francis picabia <fpica...@gmail.com> wrote: > I normally have no problem with this. I install thunderbird > update when prompted by the app and it is normally > able to update itself. Today it seemed to update, but > then nothing came back up. Manually launching it > failed to do anything - no error. > > I downloaded a fresh bzipped tar and installed it > in a new directory. Running thunderbird from there > on the command line also does nothing. I can run > with -h and it shows help, or -v and it shows > the version is 9.0.1. OK. > > I am running the file thunderbird as I have always done. > > Has anyone else run into problems and found a solution? > > The last 3.1 icedove from mozilla.debian.net works OK, but it > doesn't see the most recent thunderbird 8 configuration of > accounts, etc. > > I found moz_libdir in the thunderbird script was pointing to > a non-existant directory, but even pointing this at itself > did not help.
The problem was very simple. There was already a thunderbird-bin executable running but it wasn't showing anywhere except from ps. Once that was killed with the kill command, I could launch Thunderbird 9. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CA+AKB6FhcmSDifF0WsrJKyugQNx0Z1comHGnmy6uz79g9fZ=p...@mail.gmail.com