Re: [newbie] Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird both borked after upgrade
Op Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:32:55 -0600 schreef Chuck MATTSEN: Same with Firefox ... my bookmarks are still there, and my Google toolbar is still there, but I've lost the ability to make profile changes (it warns it couldn't write to the profile and any changes would be lost upon shutting down the program). Any ideas there, again, other than starting over with the new profile? You say you ran the programs as root at first go. Go and see if something in your home-dir has changed ownership from your ID to root. Perhaps that is where the mishap started? Specifically ownership of ~/.thunderbird and ~/.phoenix are interesting in this respect. Paul -- Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high. http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.php Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird both borked after upgrade
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 19:41 +0100, Paul wrote: You say you ran the programs as root at first go. Go and see if something in your home-dir has changed ownership from your ID to root. Perhaps that is where the mishap started? Specifically ownership of ~/.thunderbird and ~/.phoenix are interesting in this respect. Nope, nothing amiss there, near as I can tell. User still owns. Hmmm. Thx. -- Chuck MATTSEN ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Mahnomen, MN Registered Linux User #346519 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird both borked after upgrade
Op Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:12:45 -0600 schreef Chuck MATTSEN: Specifically ownership of ~/.thunderbird and ~/.phoenix are interesting in this respect. Nope, nothing amiss there, near as I can tell. User still owns. Hmmm. I assume you also checked all the files within the tree(s). Very weird... Paul -- Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high. http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.php Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird both borked after upgrade
Chuck MATTSEN wrote: Not urgent, actually, as I'm planning on switching from Thunderbird back to Evolution, as it will sync with the Tungsten E I have on the way :-), but I /would/ like to be able to access the mail which I now seem to have no access to; same with Firefox -- I know I can create a new profile there and rebuild what I need, but it'd be nice to have access to the old settings. The scenario is this: Have been running older versions of both TB and FF until today, when I decided to take the two of them out of my urpmi skip.list and allow them to upgrade finally. So, did urpmi, which did its thing, ran each once as root first (since that seemed to be critical with earlier upgrades), then attempted to run as usual. Thunderbird seems to have kept my account settings, and my folder directory even seems to show the proper counts for unread mail, etc., as I had left it before the upgrade, but nothing will show to the right ... neither a message listing nor anything in the preview pane. Similarly, the get mail button seems to do nothing now. Any ideas, other than creating a new profile and starting over? Same with Firefox ... my bookmarks are still there, and my Google toolbar is still there, but I've lost the ability to make profile changes (it warns it couldn't write to the profile and any changes would be lost upon shutting down the program). Any ideas there, again, other than starting over with the new profile? I know that upgrades have been problematic from the get-go, but was hoping they'd ironed things out a bit better by now. Oh, well. Anyway, TIA for any pointers. I've had little luck finding my way around the Mozilla forum/FAQs for this. You could delete the .slt in your ~/.phoenix/default/ directory and restart Firefox. Sometimes thats corrected some strange happenings for me. I did not lose my settings when deleteing .slt. Restart Firefox and it will create a new .slt with your old settings. May help, I don't know, I don't use the mdk rpm version. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird both borked after upgrade
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 19:05 -0700, mike wrote: Chuck MATTSEN wrote: Same with Firefox ... my bookmarks are still there, and my Google toolbar is still there, but I've lost the ability to make profile changes (it warns it couldn't write to the profile and any changes would be lost upon shutting down the program). Any ideas there, again, other than starting over with the new profile? You could delete the .slt in your ~/.phoenix/default/ directory and restart Firefox. Sometimes thats corrected some strange happenings for me. I did not lose my settings when deleteing .slt. Restart Firefox and it will create a new .slt with your old settings. May help, I don't know, I don't use the mdk rpm version. Thanks, but proved not to be necessary (at least with Firefox; Thunderbird is still borked but, again, I'm migrating to Evolution, anyway, just want to have access to that old mail if I can). With Firefox, what I ended up doing was doing an import of the bookmarks from the old profile; it didn't balk at that at all. Then I simply downloaded and installed the plug-ins I wanted, as I'd likely have had to update them anyway. So, Firefox is fully functional again, and more or less in the state it was prior to the upgrade (with the exception of version changes, of course). That was relatively painless. Thunderbird is proving to be more challenging. I tried copying the mail dirs for safekeeping then a urpme followed by a urpmi, which gave me a functional copy of TB, albeit with a brand new, empty profile. Then tried moving some of the old mail dirs to the new profile, and got *some* of my mail back (Inbox and one other folder with unread mail showed up, but none of the others ... odd). I may end up just calling the old mail a lost cause, unless someone has any other ideas. I'm still trying to find info at the Mozilla-TB forum, but I tend to get lost there and find everything but what I'm looking for. :-) So, it's not in the critical category, but rather in the gee, wouldn't it be great if category now ... still important, but Thx. -- Chuck MATTSEN ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Mahnomen, MN Registered Linux User #346519 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird both borked after upgrade
Chuck MATTSEN wrote: Thunderbird is proving to be more challenging. I tried copying the mail dirs for safekeeping then a urpme followed by a urpmi, which gave me a functional copy of TB, albeit with a brand new, empty profile. Then tried moving some of the old mail dirs to the new profile, and got *some* of my mail back (Inbox and one other folder with unread mail showed up, but none of the others ... odd). I may end up just calling the old mail a lost cause, unless someone has any other ideas. I'm still trying to find info at the Mozilla-TB forum, but I tend to get lost there and find everything but what I'm looking for. :-) So, it's not in the critical category, but rather in the gee, wouldn't it be great if category now ... still important, but Thx. In mozilla not sure about Tbird but probably the same. Look in ~/.mozilla/default/.slt/Mail/smtp.xxx.xxx/ It lists all my mail folders. You could try [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ locate Mail/smtp and see if that turns up anything. I guess it depends on how good of job urpme does :-) Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
