[Bug 641134] [NEW] upgrades cause chrome errors in running instances

[Jon Dowland]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: thunderbird

If I upgrade my system using upgrade-manager and thunderbird is amongst
those packages upgraded, my running instance will occasionally stop
working (noticed this twice so far).  I've seen similar things happen to
Firefox in Debian.

I suspect that the running instance is depending on (mozilla) chrome
stuff to be in particular places or to have particular properties which
have changed. The result is zero-width, zero-height blank prompt windows
popping up, search result windows turning up empty (implying no matches
to search) etc. until  I realise what has happened and kill thunderbird.

I think this needs to be handled more gracefully, perhaps a prompt
indicating that running instances have been detected and should be
restarted would be a first start (I've seen a debconf prompt for this on
libc upgrades for running daemons)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: thunderbird 3.0.8+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.42-generic-pae 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Sep 17 10:15:18 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird

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


** Tags: apport-bug i386 lucid

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upgrades cause chrome errors in running instances
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