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Thunderbird running but not responding

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• Started 12 years ago by Networks2011
• Latest reply from domcox
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   Networks2011
   

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   Hi forum members,

   I keep getting this message when I click on the Thunderbird 11.0 icon:

   "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."

   How can this be fixed?

   I am very new to SliTaz 4.0 but I have used Xubuntu Linux.

   Thank you for your time,
   Networks2011

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Trixar_za
   

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   Run killall thunderbird from terminal

   Posted 12 years ago #
3. 

   mojo
   

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   The maintainer of the Thunderbird tazpkg (domcox) has confirmed there is a problem but hasn't fixed it.
   http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/thunderbird-no-iniciater

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Networks2011
   

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   Thanks for getting back to me so fast. I could try and remove the parent lock file. Any tips on that?
   What other popular email clients do work and can it work with Tor? I would not like to give up on SliTaz yet.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   christophe
   

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   if the problem is with the slitaz port (which it seems to be)

   download thunderbird from the mozilla site,

   as a root user,
   unzip it in say, /opt/thunderbird
   and run /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird

   (or create a link to it:
   ln -s /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird /usr/bin/thunderbird)

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   domcox
   

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   Hi all,

   I'm working on. Problem is that building thunderbird on my own system takes at least 3 hours so I need time to fix it.

   domcox

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   namT
   

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   try creating a script called /usr/bin/thunderbird for a temporary fix:
   
#!/bin/sh
killall thunderbird 2>/dev/null
sleep 0.3
exec /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird


   Posted 12 years ago #
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   domcox
   

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   This bug occurs only at first startup. Something is wrong in the main mimeTypes (.rdf) file.

   For a quick workaround:
   as root:
   

   # rm /usr/lib/thunderbird/defaults/profile

   If as a user, you had thunderbird running before, that's all.

   But for every user who tried to run thunderbird and got the message "If you had thunderbird running before, you have nothing to do...:", delete the user's profile:
   

   $ rm -r .thunderbird

   A new package will show up soon.

   Posted 12 years ago #

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