On Tue, 2024-02-27 at 11:19 -0500, Robert McBroom via users wrote: > Power failure is what left Thunderbird in a state. The lock was in the > ".thunderbird" tree as a link to a nonexistent file > "192.168.1.218:+7103". Deleting the entry enabled Thunderbird to start.
Software really ought to be more robust than this. Power failures do happen, people shouldn't be expected to be running a UPS, and software does crash. A program ought to be able to detect a stale lock file still remaining and handle it itself. -- NB: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the list. The following system info data is generated fresh for each post: uname -rsvp Linux 6.2.15-100.fc36.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu May 11 16:51:53 UTC 2023 x86_64 -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
