Thunderbird won't start after dist-upgrade, hoary to breezy

[Matt Morgan]

On 10/4/05, Steve <bassix at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/4/05, Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I just tried to do a dist-upgrade from hoary to breezy. Almost
> > everything looks OK.
> >
> > But Thunderbird won't start. When I try, I get a little dialog that says
> >
> > ---
> > Please Restart
> >
> > Changes in the set of globally installed extensions detected.
> > You must restart Thunderbird one more time in order to finalize those changes!
> > ---
> >
> > There's an OK button, and the X in the upper right. Whichever I
> > choose, the box disappears for a second or so, then comes right back.
> > Thunderbird never starts.
> >
> > I restarted X and then rebooted, but neither helped. Every time I
> > start Thunderbird, it's the same. I have to imagine this is some kind
> > of permissions error in the application directory or at least the
> > extensions directory, but they're all set to 644 or 755 (if a
> > directory), just like I'd expect.
> >
> > Googling doesn't help much. Other people have gotten this error, but
> > it has either gone away after restarting, or they speak languages I
> > don't understand.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Matt
>
> I would suggest going into Synaptic and uninstalling thunderbird, then
> installing thunderbird (maybe look for "mozilla-thunderbird" package
> to install - see next paragraph).

That worked. Thanks!

>
> However, I am not sure if you will lose your personal data (e-mail
> settings and messages). I think it should be OK, as I've had to do
> this with firefox (uninstalled "firefox" then had to install
> "mozilla-firefox") and all my extensions, themes and firefox settings
> remained.

No, you're right, the mozilla apps tend to be pretty good about this.
They're also good about user data sharing from version to version (as
you upgrade/downgrade) which is really nice.

--Matt