Thunderbird won't open [SOLVED sort of]

[chazb]

LM 17 Quana, Cinnamon.
Thunderbird mail won't open, I right click it, the little round thinging gose round and round and nothing happens. Can anybody give me some ideas, how to fix this?

[AscLinux]

Can anybody give me some ideas, how to fix this?

Generally, you look at the error message and act accordingly. In case you don't understand the error post it here.

[chazb]

Can anybody give me some ideas, how to fix this?

Generally, you look at the error message and act accordingly. In case you don't understand the error post it here.

I see point, but I am not well versed in the command line, tho I am certain the solution to my problem is there, perhaps you could assist me. Two attempts,,,,,,,

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charles@charles-Inspiron-1526 ~ $ open thinderbird-mail
Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console
charles@charles-Inspiron-1526 ~ $ gnome-open thunderbird-mail
Error showing url: Error when getting information for file '/home/charles/thunderbird-mail': No such file or directory
charles@charles-Inspiron-1526 ~ $ 

[Spearmint2]

what happens if you try to open in Terminal?

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nohup thunderbird

[rene]

Probably, with thunderbird not running, rm ~/.thunderbird/*.default/.parentlock.

[chazb]

what happens if you try to open in Terminal?

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nohup thunderbird

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harles@charles-Inspiron-1526 ~ $ nohup thunderbird
nohup: ignoring input and appending output to ‘nohup.out’

The icon is on the desktop. I think what I have done in an attempt to manually create a usb stick backup of my Home Dir., is some how disconnected the Icon from the program or deleted the program. Thunderbird is a huge file, and knowing me and my slow old hardware, don't have the patience to to transfer that huge file to a usb stick.
So is there a way to use the command line to see if the program is still on my computer? And if so, reconnect it to the Icon? Otherwise I guess I will have to reinstall thunderbird and thus lose my archives.

Just now did this,,,,,,

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charles@charles-Inspiron-1526 ~ $ ls Home
ls: cannot access Home: No such file or directory

I can open the Home in the GUI and Thunderbird is there.

[chazb]

Probably, with thunderbird not running, rm ~/.thunderbird/*.default/.parentlock.

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charles@charles-Inspiron-1526 ~ $ rm ~/.thunderbird/*.default/.parentlock.
rm: cannot remove ‘/home/charles/.thunderbird/*.default/.parentlock.’: No such file or directory

[rene]

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charles@charles-Inspiron-1526 ~ $ rm ~/.thunderbird/*.default/.parentlock.
rm: cannot remove ‘/home/charles/.thunderbird/*.default/.parentlock.’: No such file or directory

Please retry without that final period, the one at the end of the line.

[chazb]

Please retry without that final period, the one at the end of the line.

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charles@charles-Inspiron-1526 ~ $  rm ~/.thunderbird/*.default/.parentlock
rm: cannot remove ‘/home/charles/.thunderbird/*.default/.parentlock’: No such file or directory

[rene]

bash not even expanding ~/.thunderbird/*.default" seems to say you not only not have a .parentlock file, but no profile directory at all. Shall withdraw; do not understand why you'd type nohup thunderbird-mail when asked to type nohup thunderbird by Spearmint2, and the profile directory seemingly not existing at all seems to say there's more to dig around here than my current late sunday evening mood allows for; sorry.

[chazb]

bash not even expanding ~/.thunderbird/*.default" seems to say you not only not have a .parentlock file, but no profile directory at all. Shall withdraw; do not understand why you'd type nohup thunderbird-mail when asked to type nohup thunderbird by Spearmint2, and the profile directory seemingly not existing at all seems to say there's more to dig around here than my current late sunday evening mood allows for; sorry.

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harles@charles-Inspiron-1526 ~ $ nohup thunderbird
nohup: ignoring input and appending output to ‘nohup.out’

That is ok, I gotta to walmart myself. The problem will eventually get solved. Not to worry, have a good Sunday evening.

[chazb]

So I get the book out do the "ls" command, and I think I have some how made the Thunderbird file inaccessible or deleted it

So this is what I know so far,,,Thunderbird the program is in the Home Dir., Thunderbird the Icon is in the Desktop Dir. I tried moving the Icon to the home Dir. but I still won't open.

If you are a Newbe like me and you have shafted yourself i.e. somehow lost control of an important file like Thunderbird and you know, there is a solution somewhere using the command line, but you just don't have patience or time (months, years learning the terminal) then delete Thunderbird, and re-install it. Now the ine thing I did learn is "apt-get install" is much faster. So if you want any old program try apt-get first and if doesn't work use the GUI.

[plAsirius]

Had Thunderbird freezing at startup, used the above recommended command in terminal:

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 nohup thunderbird

It then started OK
Closed it
Started Thunderbird again from the menu, back to normal !

Thx for the tip.