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Package: thunderbird
Version: 1:78.11.0-2
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: Carsten Schoenert <[email protected]>, Paul Menzel
<[email protected]>
I'd like to describe my problem, which is related to #950941.
I have copyied over ~/thunderbird from my old laptop. Now when
I start thunderbird, it start's normally. However at next start it
will fail and complain and tell me that I should resolve the
situation.
Why?
Because on first start, the second layer of wrappers will
apparently make a **copy** of ~/.thunderbird to ~/.icedove.
And on the second start the first layer wrapper will see:
$ ls -l .thunderbird/ .icedove/ -d
drwx------ 3 me mi 4096 7. Jul 22:24 .icedove/
drwx------ 5 me mi 4096 2. Jul 21:57 .thunderbird/
and ... fail.
So I've tried to find out. Took me now over 1.5 hours and
I still haven't found out because... well it's complex.
And even with the whole complexity the wrapper is still
not able to handle (in the sense of behaving like
thunderbird itself would in the same situation) the
situation.
So I'd suggest something in the vein of:
$ cat /usr/bin/thunderbird
#!/bin/bash
if [ "$SKIP_THUNDERBIRD_WRAPPER" != "" ]; then
/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird "$@"; fi
But then again one could simply do:
alias thunderbird=/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird
(the path /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird not being
trivial to find...). Or maybe [also] document that...
Yet another alternative is to use upstream?
What do you think?
Greetings and thanks!
*t
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
APT prefers testing-security
APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=de_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=de_CH:de
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages thunderbird depends on:
ii debianutils 4.11.2
ii fontconfig 2.13.1-4.2
ii libatk1.0-0 2.36.0-2
ii libbotan-2-17 2.17.3+dfsg-2
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.8-4
ii libc6 2.31-12
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.16.0-5
ii libcairo2 1.16.0-5
ii libdbus-1-3 1.12.20-2
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.110-6
ii libevent-2.1-7 2.1.12-stable-1
ii libffi7 3.3-6
ii libfontconfig1 2.13.1-4.2
ii libfreetype6 2.10.4+dfsg-1
ii libgcc-s1 10.2.1-6
ii libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.42.2+dfsg-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.66.8-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.24-4
ii libicu67 67.1-6
ii libjson-c5 0.15-2
ii libnspr4 2:4.29-1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.46.2-3
ii libstdc++6 10.2.1-6
ii libvpx6 1.9.0-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.7.1-1
ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.7.1-1
ii libxcb-shm0 1.14-3
ii libxcb1 1.14-3
ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1.1
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.10-1
ii psmisc 23.4-2
ii x11-utils 7.7+5
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2
Versions of packages thunderbird recommends:
ii hunspell-de-de [hunspell-dictionary] 20161207-9
ii hunspell-en-us [hunspell-dictionary] 1:2019.10.06-1
Versions of packages thunderbird suggests:
ii apparmor 2.13.6-10
pn fonts-lyx <none>
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.18.3-5
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.33-2
-- no debconf information
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Hi Carsten,
thanks a lot for bearing with me!
On Sun, 11 Jul 2021, Carsten Schoenert wrote:
Hello Tomas,
Am 07.07.21 um 22:58 schrieb Tomas Pospisek:
I'd like to describe my problem, which is related to #950941.
I have copyied over ~/thunderbird from my old laptop. Now when
I start thunderbird, it start's normally. However at next start it
will fail and complain and tell me that I should resolve the
situation.
Why?
Because on first start, the second layer of wrappers will
apparently make a **copy** of ~/.thunderbird to ~/.icedove.
the wrapper will never start a copy of any folder. We were thinking in
2017 if simply copying the old profile to the new folder is a good idea.
But we concluded rather quickly this is a bad idea for several reasons.
So no, you making here a wrong assumption, the wrapper isn't copying
anything.
And on the second start the first layer wrapper will see:
$ ls -l .thunderbird/ .icedove/ -d
drwx------ 3 me mi 4096 7. Jul 22:24 .icedove/
drwx------ 5 me mi 4096 2. Jul 21:57 .thunderbird/
and ... fail.
I can't say why you have two folders here, but I can think of you copied
the symlinked folder into a real folder,
That was it! Thank you!
What I apparently originally did was:
$ scp -r old_laptop:.thunderbird .thunderbird
the result of which was:
$ ssh old_laptop "ls -ld .thunderbird"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tpo tpo 8 Nov 25 2012 .thunderbird -> .icedove
$ ls -ld .thunderbird
drwx------ 5 tpo tpo 4096 Jul 12 10:47 .thunderbird
this was happen to my back in
2017 while testing the stuff. And then the wrapper refuses to start
anything because we don't know what to use for (from a PoV of the wrapper).
If you don't need the old .icedove folder anymore then remove it. The
wrapper script will start Thunderbird without further modifications.
It's the Thunderbird binary that is requiring the folder
$(HOME)/.thunderbird.
I've now copied ~/.icedove and ~/.thunderbird over from the old laptop as
they were there and thunderbird now works correctly here:
$ ls -ld .thunderbird .icedove
drwx------ 5 tpo tpo 4096 Jul 12 10:47 .icedove
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tpo tpo 8 Nov 25 2012 .thunderbird -> .icedove
If I'd like to get rid of ~/.icedove and only have a standard
~/.thunderbird directory - which I am assuming is possible - then what
would the correct way to do that be?
So I've tried to find out. Took me now over 1.5 hours and
I still haven't found out because... well it's complex.
And even with the whole complexity the wrapper is still
not able to handle (in the sense of behaving like
thunderbird itself would in the same situation) the
situation.
So I'd suggest something in the vein of:
$ cat /usr/bin/thunderbird
#!/bin/bash
if [ "$SKIP_THUNDERBIRD_WRAPPER" != "" ]; then /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird
"$@"; fi
But then again one could simply do:
alias thunderbird=/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird
(the path /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird not being
trivial to find...). Or maybe [also] document that...
Yet another alternative is to use upstream?
I don't want to add any more complexity to the wrapper, it's not worth
in my eyes. You reported for a very very long time the first new issue
regarding the Icedove -> Thunderbird transition, that let me assume
there is no real issue in the wrapper today.
The wrapper script has a commented out line 'set -x' in line 21. I
suggest to activate this setting and look into the output while calling
'thunderbird' from the command line. This will give more ozutput that is
helpful for a diagnose.
Thanks a lot!
*t
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