After update Thunderbird crashs constantly

Wade Smart wadesmart at gmail.com
Sun Mar 2 00:25:08 UTC 2008


Karl Larsen wrote:
> Wade Smart wrote:
>> Peter l Jakobi wrote:
>>   
>>> On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 04:17:05PM -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Wade Smart wrote:
>>>>       
>>>>> Did anyone notice that after the Thunderbird update today that 
>>>>> Thunderbird is now crashing constantly? Ok, crashing is not the word. 
>>>>> When I send a email it just disappears - the entire app. When I check 
>>>>> mail, move mail to any folder, try to add a new calendar event - it just 
>>>>> goes away.
>>>>>         
>>> Karl wrote:
>>>     
>>>> always. If you haven't rebooted since the update do that right now.
>>>>       
>>> Karl, you shouldn't need to reboot due to updates, unless you've changed
>>> the kernel and want to use the newly installed one immediately.
>>>
>>> Everything else should at most require a start/stop script or login/logout
>>> when X / gdm / ... has been updates. Of course, a reboot subsumes all that.
>>>
>>> To Wade: No thunderbird probs with the update on 64bit.
>>>
>>> (though I'm maybe 40 days late with an kernel-upgrade-related reboot -
>>> not  much  of  a  concern,  as  this  box  is  neither  firewall   nor
>>> media-"endangered").
>>>
>>>     
>> 03012008 1748 GMT-6
>>
>> I hardly ever reboot but I went ahead and did it and so far - no more
>> crashes.
>>
>> Wade
>>
>>
>>   
>     Never do what Karl Says. It might work :-)
> 
> That is a real shame.
> 
> 
> 

03012008 1824 GMT-6

Never do what? I hardly ever reboot because its not needed.

But I did and it didn't help.

Wade




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