Hello Yannik, On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 02:18:59PM +0100, Yannik Schmidt wrote: ... > * What led up to the situation? > There has been a symlink called .icedove that pointed to the actual > profile. The whole thing happened on an nfs.
can you please be more clear on this? Where was that symlink pointing? Inside your $HOME or sometwhere else. > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > ineffective)? > Icedove was started with the command icedove for the first time > after the lasted patch icedove:amd64 1:45.6.0-2 1:45.8.0-2. > * What was the outcome of this action? > Icedove behaved strangely and attempted to walk directories > unrelated to icedove iteself and finally got confused when entering > the .wine directory in which it got stuck indefenitly. The errorlog > shows it going through the same files in the .wine-dir again and > again but also visiting other directories before that. Please create a log by using 'thunderbird --verbose' on the command line. We can't see what's happen and by this also don't what's going wrong on side. Without more input it's impossible to do a failure analysis. Please note also https://wiki.debian.org/Thunderbird#Adoption_of_User_Profiles_.28Testing.2FStretch.29 Regards Carsten
