Hello,
I’m experiencing a similar issue after I upgraded my system.
Installing Thunderbird from the experimental repository did partially
solve the problem: I can open attached files (tried with a pdf file
(evince)).
However, I’m still unable to open links.
All packages are up to date.
$ sudo apt install -t experimental thunderbird
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
lightning
The following packages will be upgraded:
lightning thunderbird
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 120 not upgraded.
Need to get 42,7 MB of archives.
After this operation, 1 247 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Get:1 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian experimental/main amd64 lightning
amd64 1:52.4.0-2~exp1 [1 135 kB]
Get:2 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian experimental/main amd64
thunderbird amd64 1:52.4.0-2~exp1 [41,6 MB]
Fetched 42,7 MB in 6s (7 064 kB/s)
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 231784 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../lightning_1%3a52.4.0-2~exp1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking lightning (1:52.4.0-2~exp1) over (1:52.4.0-1) ...
Preparing to unpack .../thunderbird_1%3a52.4.0-2~exp1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking thunderbird (1:52.4.0-2~exp1) over (1:52.4.0-1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-2) ...
Setting up thunderbird (1:52.4.0-2~exp1) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.thunderbird ...
Setting up lightning (1:52.4.0-2~exp1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-4) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-9) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-1) ...
$ thunderbird
** (thunderbird:11558): WARNING **: Could not launch default application for
URI: Failed to execute child process “/usr/lib/firefox/firefox” (Permission
denied)
** (thunderbird:11558): WARNING **: Could not launch default application for
URI: Failed to execute child process “/usr/lib/firefox/firefox” (Permission
denied)
(thunderbird:11558): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to read the recently used
resources file at '/home/xyz/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but the parser
failed: Failed to open file “/home/xyz/.local/share/recently-used.xbel”:
Permission denied.
(thunderbird:11558): GVFS-WARNING **: can't init metadata tree
/home/xyz/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/root: open: Permission denied
(thunderbird:11558): GVFS-WARNING **: can't init metadata tree
/home/xyz/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/root: open: Permission denied
(evince:11662): Gtk-WARNING **: Allocating size to EvSidebar 0x5631fc5bd6b0
without calling gtk_widget_get_preferred_width/height(). How does the code know
the size to allocate?
(thunderbird:11558): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to read the recently used
resources file at '/home/xyz/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but the parser
failed: Failed to open file “/home/xyz/.local/share/recently-used.xbel”:
Permission denied.
(thunderbird:11558): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to read the recently used
resources file at '/home/xyz/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but the parser
failed: Failed to open file “/home/xyz/.local/share/recently-used.xbel”:
Permission denied.
