Re: Thunderbird 9.0.1 does not launch
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:58 PM, francis picabia <fpicabia@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.
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