Re: Thunderbird Mystery

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On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 8:45 PM Robert McBroom via users
<users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On one of my f39 systems Thundebird fails to start claiming that it is
> already running. "ksyguard" from root doesn't show anything I can
> recognize as having to do with Thunderbird. Rebooting does not get it to
> work. Looked at the ".thunderbird" file in the user directory and there
> are lots of entries there to make sense about. I can't close an instance
> that I can't find. The pop up window suggests using a different profile
> but I don't see any way to select a profile.
>
> Tried erasing Thunderbird and installing it again but the problem remains.

Did you delete the lock file and then try a restart? If the lock file
is recreated, then Thunderbird is starting. An add-on may be causing
the trouble.

Can you strace startup and find the offending lock file? Or maybe it's
as easy as `find ~/.thunderbird -name lock`.

Also see posts like
<https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/thunderbird-ha-s-a-stale-lock-file-how-to-delete-196760/>.

Jeff
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