MX-17/18 Repository: The Thunderbird Thread

[Jerry3904]

Haven't tried that b/c it is on my Production machine.

[Eadwine Rose]

Aha.. not everyone has harddrives they can switch Gotta remember that heh

[Jerry3904]

I have an external harddrive with MX-18 on it. So I booted into that, ran upgrades, then upgraded TB from the Test Repo. No problem, all normal.

The only significant difference I can see between the two is that the external harddrive is using nouveau with Nvidia, while the SSD one onboard (where I have the problems) is using proprietary nvidia driver.

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Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GF119 [GeForce GT 610] driver: nvidia v: 390.87 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: nvidia resolution: 2048x1152~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GT 610/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.87 

[Eadwine Rose]

Which is what I am running as well I think..

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Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GK208 [GeForce GT 640 Rev. 2] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia 
           v: 390.87 bus ID: 01:00.0 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: nvidia 
           unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz, 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GT 640/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.87 direct render: Yes 

[Jerry3904]

Thanks--I give up.

[Eadwine Rose]

It must be something else that is doing this. Some other conflict.

Sorry Jerry, wish I knew!

[mmikeinsantarosa]

Haven't tried that b/c it is on my Production machine.

What about backing up your .thunderbird folder somewhere, purge thunderbird, re-install thunderbird-65.0 then finally put the guts of the .thunderbird folder you backed up earlier in the in-service .thunderbird folder?

[Jerry3904]

Thanks. I already tried renaming the existing folder ~/.thunderbird_bak, uninstalling TB 54... and instaling the new one. Didn't seem to change anything. Before I do anything else, I'm going to look through those web search hits--a lot of people have reported the same problem. The only real reason I want to upgrade is to I might be able to get back the ability to click links and have the page pop up in my browser.

[old_guy]

Jerry
Did you clear out you .cache folder? I have had several odd problems in the past ( I use one .thunderbird folder linked to 18 different distros/variations) and clearing out the thunderbird folder within my .cache folder cleared them up.
Earl

[Jerry3904]

I'll give it a try, thanks.