Public bug reported: After upgrading yesterday to 24.04, thunderbird would not open. I got the error "Thunderbird is already running, but not responding". In the terminal, it looks like this:
$ thunderbird Gtk-Message: 10:04:38.068: Not loading module "atk-bridge": The functionality is provided by GTK natively. Please try to not load it. [GFX1-]: glxtest: libpci missing JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/XULStore.sys.mjs, line 60: Error: Can't find profile directory. JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/XULStore.sys.mjs, line 60: Error: Can't find profile directory. JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/XULStore.sys.mjs, line 60: Error: Can't find profile directory. JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/XULStore.sys.mjs, line 60: Error: Can't find profile directory. JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/XULStore.sys.mjs, line 60: Error: Can't find profile directory. console.error: (new UnknownError("IndexedDB: thunderbird/url-classifier-skip-urls getLastModified() IndexedDB: The operation failed for reasons unrelated to the database itself and not covered by any other error code.", "resource://services-settings/IDBHelpers.jsm", 18)) The cause of this is that in ~/.thunderbird/profiles.ini I list a profile path that is outside /home in a data directory that sees regular back ups. thunderbird is in snap now, and snaps are hardcoded (https://askubuntu.com/questions/1033344/how-to-give-snaps-access-to- somedir) to permit no data access beyond /home. This is the reason it could not start any more. A possible way forward is to make the data access of snaps configurable. In the meanwhile, I uninstalled the snap-thunderbird and installed deb-thunderbird following https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2024/03/install-thunderbird-deb-ubuntu-2404/ ** Affects: thunderbird (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2066347 Title: Thunderbird Snap cannot access profile outside home after 24.04 upgrade To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/2066347/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs