Thunderbird won't start

[runbei]

installed Mint 9 - nice. However, Thunderbird (default install) won't start. It doesn't show in the system monitor, yet it gives the following message then exits:

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.

[dawgdoc]

One way to

close the existing Thunderbird process,

is to open a terminal and enter

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killall thunderbird

then you should be able to restart Thunderbird