[Bug 563893] Re: Thunderbird will not launch due to a recursive symlink

[Micah Gersten]

@Rumpeltux
Please file a new bug as this might be a new issue.

On 06/14/2010 12:42 PM, Rumpeltux wrote:
> Today, the lucid thunderbird update helper asked if I wanted to
> reimport thunderbird-2 profile settings or keep the
> thunderbird-3-beta ones. I selected the latter, thunderbird did not
> start. I then found the self-referencing symlink .thunderbird and
> deleted it. Thunderbird seems to have created a new profile in
> .thunderbird-3.0. My normal thunderbird profile is now in
> .thunderbird-2.0-replaced. thunderbird starts with an empty
> profile. Thunderbird seems to have created a new profile in
> .thunderbird. I removed .thunderbird-3 and put a copy of
> .thunderbird-2.0-replaced there. thunderbird-3.0 does start and
> opens my profile, however this is pre3 shredder. I got it fixed
> then by putting a symlink to .thunderbird-3.0 at .thunderbird,
> don’t know though why that had to happen.
>

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Thunderbird will not launch due to a recursive symlink
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