[Bug 328608] [NEW] [Intrepid] Thunderbird's main window is invisible

[BeArDy_666]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: mozilla-thunderbird

Using : Intrepid, Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (also happens with 2.0.0.17 and
other versions)

After a reboot this morning, I encountered a peculiar problem upon
loading Thunderbird. It loads but the main window never appears. TB
still pulls down emails, rss feeds, etc. but the main window just
refuses to appear. I use the FireTray extension to get mail
notifications in the notification area and to minimise TB to there and
that icon appears fine - this is the only visible indication of TB even
being loaded. I have already tried removing and purging TB from my
system and then reinstalling it, but that has no effect. I have also
tried starting TB with a new profile by moving the ~/.mozilla-
thunderbird folder out of the way to force TB to create a fresh one and
that also makes no difference.

The only changes I have made to my system package-wise in the last 24
hours are that I installed a more recent version of SMPlayer than the
one in the repositories (I used the one in ppa.launchpad.net/rvm). This
also updated the Mplayer package to a slightly more recent version too.
I have since purged the updated packages from my system and then
purged/reinstalled TB (both v2.0.0.17 and v2.0.0.19) and still the main
TB window remains invisible. I ran TB from the command line to see if
any errors were generated, but alas, there were none. To all intents and
purposes, TB appears to be running fine, just with one *tiny* problem.
:/

Just to give you a little more background, I've had this problem once
before, literally a couple of weeks after Intrepid first came out. I was
having quite a few other troubles at the time (problems with other
packages and major fglrx "hiccups") and this problem was the final
straw. I reinstalled Hardy and stuck with that for just over a month to
let things settle down a bit, then upgraded to Intrepid again and things
have been fine since then. To this day, I still have no idea what
triggered this problem the first time around, but going to the newer
version of SMPlayer seems to have been the trigger this time. I really
don't want to have to do a full OS reinstall just to get TB fully
operational again as I really need it to be running all the time.

My extremely temporary solution is that I have a couple of VM's for
trying out various things and I have TB running in one of those. This
means that I can still read my mails, etc. in a guest VM and can play
around with TB in the host to see if I can get it working again.

"apt-cache policy thunderbird" gives the following results :
thunderbird:
  Installed: 2.0.0.19+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
  Candidate: 2.0.0.19+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
  Version table:
 *** 2.0.0.19+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1 0
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/main Packages
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.0.0.17+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages

Hope this is all useful and many thanks in advance.

** Affects: mozilla-thunderbird (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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[Intrepid] Thunderbird's main window is invisible
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