Public bug reported:
I just upgraded my system to Ubuntu 24.04, which apparently included
upgrading Thunderbird to the new Snap package. After restarting the
system, I noticed two things:
1) thunderbird wouldn't start
2) The complete system was really slow.
After some digging I noticed there was a copy job running, something
along the lines of "cp -a ~/.thunderbird ~/snap/thunderbird", I don't
recall the complete command line, but I get what this intended to do.
Since I have about 10 GB of local mail stored in Thunderbird, this took
a while, despite using a SSD.
IMHO, this should have been a file move operation, not a copy (which
would have been instantenous). But even then, if a copy is required for
some reason, users should be visibly notified of such a transition. This
can be as easy as requiring "libnotify-bin" (a 9kb dependancy!) and
putting
notify-send -t 30000 -a "Thunderbird" "Thunderbird needs to copy your
mails to a new location. This may take a few minutes. It will start
after the transition is complete."
in the script just before the copy job.
Can you please implement some user notification like this?
Thank you!
** Affects: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2085052
Title:
Thunderbird needs *minutes* to start up after Ubuntu 24.04 upgrade,
due to Snap transition
Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
I just upgraded my system to Ubuntu 24.04, which apparently included
upgrading Thunderbird to the new Snap package. After restarting the
system, I noticed two things:
1) thunderbird wouldn't start
2) The complete system was really slow.
After some digging I noticed there was a copy job running, something
along the lines of "cp -a ~/.thunderbird ~/snap/thunderbird", I don't
recall the complete command line, but I get what this intended to do.
Since I have about 10 GB of local mail stored in Thunderbird, this
took a while, despite using a SSD.
IMHO, this should have been a file move operation, not a copy (which
would have been instantenous). But even then, if a copy is required
for some reason, users should be visibly notified of such a
transition. This can be as easy as requiring "libnotify-bin" (a 9kb
dependancy!) and putting
notify-send -t 30000 -a "Thunderbird" "Thunderbird needs to copy your
mails to a new location. This may take a few minutes. It will start
after the transition is complete."
in the script just before the copy job.
Can you please implement some user notification like this?
Thank you!
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