Thunderbird problem in Edgy

[Thilo Six]

Paul Thompson wrote the following on 30.10.2006 22:15:
> Hi,
> 
> I have just install Edgy on my Dell Inspiron 9100. All is working
> well, even the Broadcom wireless card is detected. However Thunderbird
> is a problem. I have kept my old profile (in fact my whole /home
> partition from Dapper) and I am getting this message when I try to run
> Thunderbird
> 
> "Mossilla Thunderbird is already running but is not responding.  To
> open a new window, you must first close the existing mossila
> thunderbird process or open a restart your system"
> 
> No other Thunderbird instance is running and restarting does not help.
> Any suggestions as to what I should do?

Try:
$ killall mozilla-thun <tab>
(i think it is mozilla-thunderbird-bin, but i am not at a ubuntu machine 
right now)

$ sudo chown -R USER\: /home/USER/.mozilla-thunderbird/

$ cd /home/USER/.mozilla-thunderbird/_RANDOM_/

$ rm compreg.dat XUL.mfasl

$ mozilla-thunderbird


> Regards,
> 
> Paul Thompson


let me know if it helps

bye Thilo