I applied the same workaround and it works.
I've to tell you that upgrade is not the true reason.
It happened to my UbuntuStudio 16.04 with Thunderbird 68.7.0 (64bit) and I've
not upgrade anything.
Yesterday night Thunderbird worked as always ... this morning had the issue.
Thanks a lot for the
Agreed, deleting global-messages-db.sqlite is not really a solution,
merely a workaround that people have come up with. We should get to the
bottom of the issue.
So it appears that thunderbird 68.x is not liking something that it
finds in the database that was considered valid in earlier
I have a similar problem (see #1859043) but my my global-messages-
db.sqlite is not corrupted: it works fine on any Thunderbird <68.
Deleting it means losing useful data like contacts, threads, etc… so it
really isn't a solution or workaround. I am assuming people is using
Thunderbird to manage
Same problem here.
Release: Ubuntu 18.04.1
Package version: 1:68.2.1+build1-0ubuntu
Removing global-messages-db.sqlite is solving the problem.
Before removing (when empty), the Thunderbird shows me 70.1 version number,
after removing it was 68.2. Strange!
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Googling reveals that some ArchLinux users apparently experience(d) the
same problem, as this pastebin reveals (https://pastebin.com/R2GESJqV):
« If you experience the following output when starting Thunderbird 68 on
Linux, the solution is to delete the file global-messages-db.sqlite in your
Here is the corresponding console output when running thunderbird with
the corrupted message db:
JavaScript error: resource:///modules/gloda/gloda.js, line 1922: TypeError:
aAttrDef.objectNounDef is undefined
JavaScript error: resource:///modules/gloda/gloda.js, line 1922: TypeError:
I can reproduce the problem with the corrupted global-messages-db.sqlite.
When using that file, the thunderbird main UI is mostly empty, the burger menu
doesn't open, and opening application preferences or account settings from a
"compose new message" window doesn't work either.
** Changed in:
Thanks Loïc. It's likely that this file contained private information,
so I downloaded a copy and deleted the attachment, to prevent ill-
intentioned people to use your data.
I'll try and reproduce the problem with this file.
** Attachment removed: "faulty file"
I got it. See it attached.
** Attachment added: "faulty file"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1849542/+attachment/5299645/+files/global-messages-db.sqlite
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I'm glad you found a way around the problem. Did you keep a copy of the
faulty global-messages-db.sqlite, by any chance?
** Changed in: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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Just deleted global-messages-db.sqlite and now it looks like it works
fine. I hopê I didn't loose anything.
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