Your message dated Wed, 31 Jul 2019 08:46:24 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#933274: thunderbird: TB recreates .icedove profile dir
if missing, will not start at next launch
has caused the Debian Bug report #933274,
regarding thunderbird: TB recreates .icedove profile dir if missing, will not
start at next launch
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Package: thunderbird
Version: 1:60.8.0-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
This system has gone through the thunderbird->icedove->thunderbird
conversions; launching thunderbird with a real .thunderbird profile
directory and no .icedove, thunderbird will recreate .icedove as a
directory, so that following attempts to run it will fail with a conversion
error. If I remove the .icedove directory and replace it with a symlink to
.thunderbird, the program will start happily.
Thinking it might have been an incomplete conversion, I quit the program,
removed the .icedove symlink, renamed .thunderbird to .icedove and restarted
the program. Once the conversion was done, I closed the program and
verified I had my ".icedove" (formerly .thunderbird) directory and a new
.thunderbird symlink. I deleted this symlink and renamed .icedove to
.thunderbird: no luck, again .icedove as real dir at the first run and an
error at the next.
First I though this was #857029 again but it turned out that, for some
reason, this profile still had a "prefs.js" which referenced ".icedove":
manually editing this file fixed the issue for good. Shouldn't this file be
migrated too?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.0.2-19.03.18.amdgpu (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages thunderbird depends on:
ii debianutils 4.8.6.3
ii fontconfig 2.13.1-2
ii libatk1.0-0 2.30.0-2
ii libc6 2.28-10
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.16.0-4
ii libcairo2 1.16.0-4
ii libdbus-1-3 1.12.16-1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.110-4
ii libevent-2.1-6 2.1.8-stable-4
ii libffi6 3.2.1-9
ii libfontconfig1 2.13.1-2
ii libfreetype6 2.9.1-3
ii libgcc1 1:9.1.0-10
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.38.1+dfsg-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.3-3
ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.5-1
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.32-3
ii libhunspell-1.7-0 1.7.0-2+b1
ii libicu63 63.2-2
ii libjsoncpp1 1.7.4-3
ii libnspr4 2:4.21-1
ii libnss3 2:3.45-1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.42.4-6
ii libsqlite3-0 3.29.0-1
ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-6
ii libstdc++6 9.1.0-10
ii libvpx5 1.7.0-3
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.7-1
ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.6.7-1
ii libxcb-shm0 1.13.1-2
ii libxcb1 1.13.1-2
ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.10-1
ii libxt6 1:1.1.5-1+b3
ii psmisc 23.2-1
ii x11-utils 7.7+4
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1
Versions of packages thunderbird recommends:
ii hunspell-en-us [hunspell-dictionary] 1:2018.04.16-1
ii hunspell-it [hunspell-dictionary] 1:6.3.0~rc1-1
ii lightning 1:60.8.0-1
Versions of packages thunderbird suggests:
ii apparmor 2.13.3-3
pn fonts-lyx <none>
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.17-5
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Hello Andrea,
Am 30.07.19 um 15:31 schrieb Andrea Borgia:
>> I was thinking about some external helping script that could do this
>> migration but due lack of interests and urgency I haven't work further
>> here. And it's mainly just the moving of '.icedove' to '.thunderbird' in
>> the prefs.js file. But other extensions can have there own setting
>> withing the TB profile!
>
> I see, then I'll probably add a short paragraph to the wikipage
> explaining this corner case and you may close this report.
unfortunately I needed to revert your modifications after I've read it
several times.
The added additional section was more than less completely redundant to
the exciting section just before! The section before is talking about
exactly about existing folders (or symlinks) for ~/.thunderbird and
~/.icedove. I see no need to add this again and point to an bug report
which does not have more and detailed information than already known,
that is confusing users more than needed.
I also close this report by this email.
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Regards
Carsten Schoenert
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