Bug 485519
Summary: | Thunderbird won't check mail on startup | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Christopher Tubbs <ctubbsii> |
Component: | thunderbird | Assignee: | Christopher Aillon <caillon> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | low | ||
Version: | 10 | CC: | gecko-bugs-nobody, mcepl |
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Hardware: | i686 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2009-03-15 17:49:44 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Christopher Tubbs
2009-02-13 21:32:25 UTC
After further review, I was able to determine that the problem does NOT occur if thunderbird is started with sudo. I also noticed that the Error Console reports: Error: startFolder has no properties Source File: chrome://messenger/content/msgMail3PaneWindow.js Line: 999 It does this at the beginning of startup. A google search revealed that this error occurs occasionally with add-ons that have failed to install properly. However, I've uninstalled all the language packs that come installed by default with Fedora, changed the default theme, and uninstalled Enigmail, and the problem persists. Since I've run out of add-ons to troubleshoot, it must be something else... something that works fine with sudo. Note that this problem occurs even if I delete the entire .thunderbird directory and create any new profile. Some further debugging revealed that this bug is reduced to Bug 472148. In fact, it's not really a bug, it's an unfortunate side effect of the user attempting to hack a fix for Bug 472148. An attempt to recreate the proper shortcut for thunderbird as the default mailreader resulted in a shortcut that called 'thunderbird %s'. This caused the bug reported here. In short, this bug only occurs when the default mailreader shortcut is not created properly, so once Bug 472148 is fixed (not sure what is taking so long on that one though), this one won't be an issue. Thanks for looking into this further and ruling out thunderbird as the cause. |