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Networks2011

Member

Registered: 2012-04-15

Posts: 2

Thunderbird running but not responding

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

Trixar_za

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 1,506

Re: Thunderbird running but not responding

Run [c]killall thunderbird[/c] from terminal

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: Thunderbird running but not responding

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

Networks2011

Member

Registered: 2012-04-15

Posts: 2

Re: Thunderbird running but not responding

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.

christophe

Member

Registered: 2011-04-17

Posts: 432

Re: Thunderbird running but not responding

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)

domcox

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 104

Re: Thunderbird running but not responding

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

namT

Member

Registered: 2011-10-25

Posts: 27

Re: Thunderbird running but not responding

try creating a script called /usr/bin/thunderbird for a temporary fix:

[c]

#!/bin/sh

killall thunderbird 2>/dev/null

sleep 0.3

exec /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird

[/c]

domcox

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 104

Re: Thunderbird running but not responding

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

For a quick workaround:

as root:

[c]# rm /usr/lib/thunderbird/defaults/profile[/c]
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:

[c]$ rm -r .thunderbird[/c]
A new package will show up soon.