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Offline Maurice

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SOLVED - Annoying problem with Thunderbird
« on: December 30, 2009, 10:27:49 PM »
Whenever I try to open Thunderbird for a second time during a session I get the message

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.

But I can't close it because I can't find it anywhere.
 
If I use the cli I get

** (thunderbird-bin:5442): WARNING **: Can not stat /home/maurice/tmp/orbit-maurice

** ERROR **: I can't write to '/home/maurice/tmp/orbit-maurice', ORB init failed
aborting...
/usr/lib/thunderbird-3.0/run-mozilla.sh: line 131:  5442 Aborted                 "$prog" ${1+"$@"}


which is not surprising as there's nothing in /tmp.

I've reinstalled TB but to no avail.

As a 'workaround' I open it then minimjze rather than closing it. But sometimes I forget and then have top reboot.

« Last Edit: December 31, 2009, 04:01:09 AM by Maurice »
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Re: Annoying problem with Thunderbird
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2009, 02:23:34 AM »
This has been discussed on the forum quite a bit already.

Open the system activity window (press ctrl and esc keys) look for the running process for thunderbird. There might be one or more left running. Select it and right click and select "kill process"  You can close the system activity window. Thunderbird should run properly now.  Please note that you may have to repeat this every time that you run Thunderbird3.




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Re: Annoying problem with Thunderbird
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2009, 04:00:37 AM »
Thanks YouCanToo - I should have done a bit more checking.
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Re: SOLVED - Annoying problem with Thunderbird
« Reply #3 on: December 31, 2009, 01:12:27 PM »
Glad it helped.




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Re: SOLVED - Annoying problem with Thunderbird
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2010, 11:56:02 AM »
All of that when you could of just told someone to open synaptic and load the gtk-oxygen-molecule theme? Sometime keeping the solution at its simplistic is the best.  Thanks for posting your solution to the problem though.




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Re: SOLVED - Annoying problem with Thunderbird
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2010, 06:33:30 PM »
Funny thing - I had downloaded gtk-oxygan-molecule for some other reason and I hadn't noticed that Thunderbird was working OK till just now. ;D

But thanks AndrzejL you've got some hepful videos there.
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Re: SOLVED - Annoying problem with Thunderbird
« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2010, 01:53:50 PM »
Guys... My solution was not entirely bulletproof ;) sorry my bad ;)

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,67673.0.html

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Re: SOLVED - Annoying problem with Thunderbird
« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2010, 04:11:04 PM »
Guys... My solution was not entirely bulletproof ;) sorry my bad ;)

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,67673.0.html

Andy


Worked for me. ;D
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Re: SOLVED - Annoying problem with Thunderbird
« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2010, 04:35:00 PM »
Guys... My solution was not entirely bulletproof ;) sorry my bad ;)

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,67673.0.html

Andy


Worked for me. ;D

You havent noticed any slowdown on the gtk applications like synaptic / pcc etc?

Andy
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Re: SOLVED - Annoying problem with Thunderbird
« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2010, 05:46:56 PM »
You havent noticed any slowdown on the gtk applications like synaptic / pcc etc?

Andy

There may have been but not that I've noticed. Synaptic takes 16 secs.
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