Back again. Using tbird on debian 12 sorta.
About October of 2024, tbird started going out to lala land while
updating its imap cache, never completing that task and ignoring the
keyboard and mouse. Killall however kills it instantly.
So I downloaded the beta version and have been using that, gradually
setting it up with duplicate file structures for incoming mail.
Thunderbird (debian version) has now been updated by apt or synaptic at
least twice since, and the beta at least once. The boot menu still
starts the debian version which quickly becomes non-responsive, quickly
being about 30 seconds. So I killall it, and run the beta by opening an
xfce4 shell and typing ./thunderbird/thunderbird. And I'm still waiting
on trixie, still have the 30 second lag to open a file, any file in my
/home/gene directory, or any other file I might have permission to
access. This delay kills digiKam, but shotwell seems to wait, so it
eventually works.
How do I go about straceing things to see if I can get a clue as to what
is killing the debian version of thunderbird? Strace output is so
verbose, any problem is lost in the noise of its verbosity. Gigabytes of it.
Thanks all.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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