Erm. Please ignore that (and feel free to close this bug if you like). I tried starting in safe mode to see if it was one of the extensions, and the next normal start onwards (both from the kde launcher and the command line) it exits normally every time. No clue what happened.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/711305 Title: Thunderbird is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Thunderbird process, or restart your system. Error received when clicking a mailto link in firefox. Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News: Confirmed Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: thunderbird This thunderbird error is given when clicking a mailto link. Instead of using the thunderbird that's already open it tries to open a new instance. Preferred Applications has Thunderbird select, but I have also tried Custom command "thunderbird %s". This has been tested on 10.04 and 10.10. Both result in this error if thunderbird is already running. Thunderbird is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Thunderbird process, or restart your system. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: thunderbird 3.1.7+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-25.44-generic 2.6.35.10 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Feb 1 10:19:09 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_CA.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: thunderbird To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/711305/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp