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Hi all,

I'm using LMDE, and just recently did an automatic ugrade, which managed to make Thunderbird hang in mid air. I have to use the "force misbehaving application to quit" thingie to unhang the computer. It seems that Thunderbird 9.0.1-1 was installed. I uninstalled it, and tried to reinstall 3.1.7-1, which is what was installed previously. It was difficult to find a copy of the .deb file, but once I did, I used gdebi to install it, which then reported to me that it was already installed! At this point trying to run Tbird I get a little window on the screen saying: " window id="messengerWindow" " and nothing else happens. At one point I also saw a msg. saying that 'libmozjs.so' couldn't be found, but it is there in '/opt/thunderbird'. At this point I can't go forward and I can't go back, so any help would be appreciated. Running 'thunderbird' with 'set -x' on I get this:

ray tty=pts/2 /opt/thunderbird $ thunderbird
+ moz_libdir=/usr/local/lib/thunderbird-3.1.7 NOTE, THIS DIRECTORY DOES NOT EXIST!
+ found=0
+ progname=/usr/bin/thunderbird
+ dirname /usr/bin/thunderbird
+ curdir=/usr/bin
+ basename /usr/bin/thunderbird
+ progbase=thunderbird
+ run_moz=/usr/bin/run-mozilla.sh
+ test -x /usr/bin/run-mozilla.sh
+ /bin/pwd
+ here=/opt/thunderbird
+ [ -h /usr/bin/thunderbird ]
+ basename /usr/bin/thunderbird
+ bn=thunderbird
+ dirname /usr/bin/thunderbird
+ cd /usr/bin
+ /bin/pwd
+ cd /usr/bin
+ + sed -e s/^.* -> //
/bin/ls -l thunderbird
+ progname=/opt/thunderbird/thunderbird
+ basename /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird
+ progbase=thunderbird
+ [ ! -x /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird ]
+ dirname /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird
+ curdir=/opt/thunderbird
+ run_moz=/opt/thunderbird/run-mozilla.sh
+ [ -x /opt/thunderbird/run-mozilla.sh ]
+ cd /opt/thunderbird
+ /bin/pwd
+ dist_bin=/opt/thunderbird
+ run_moz=/opt/thunderbird/run-mozilla.sh
+ found=1
+ break
+ cd /opt/thunderbird
+ [ 1 = 0 ]
+ script_args=
+ debugging=0
+ MOZILLA_BIN=thunderbird-bin
+ [ = beos ]
+ pass_arg_count=0
+ [ 0 -gt 0 ]
+ [ 0 = 1 ]
+ /opt/thunderbird/run-mozilla.sh /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin
Segmentation fault
+ exitcode=139
+ exit 139

ray tty=pts/2 /opt/thunderbird $

Hi

I hope you have saved your TB profile? It is under /home/user/.thunderbird a folder with 8 cryptic letters: mine: ned8okvx.default.

Once that is done, we see go on.

Thunderbird 9 should work just fine.

apt-get purge thunderbird
apt-get install thunderbird

No issues here:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1