John : Yeah, the problem stays fixed after reboots. Well, until it decides to start acting up again. :/
Playing round with profiles doesn't make the slightest difference. One of the first things I tried to fix this was to move the entire .mozilla- thunderbird folder out of the way and start with a completely fresh profile, just in case it was an extension causing the trouble - it isn't because this still happens when there are no extensions loaded in TB. When creating a new profile, all the dialog boxes show up fine, but when that part finishes the main window still refuses to appear. So, as far as I can tell the profile and it's contents seem to have nothing to do with this bug. Once the main window starts doing the invisible thing, that's it until you remove/purge then re-install thunderbird. Thing is, this doesn't happen after TB has been updated. It's always after some random other system component that appears to have absolutely no connection to TB is updated. And I do mean random because there appears to be no pattern to it whatsoever. It's never the same system components updating and it doesn't happen after every update that occurs because if it did, I'd be fixing this issue anything up to a dozen times a week when it only occurs once or twice a month. *Something* somewhere gets tripped up (apparently randomly) and then you've got no visible main window in TB after you next reboot/load TB. I haven't seen this happen (yet) when nothing has been updated since the last reboot. As I said before, it doesn't matter which version of TB you use from the repositories. This has happened to me with every version of TB used in the alphas, beta, rc and final release of Ubuntu 8.10 (2.0.016 - 2.0.0.17 ?) and every version of TB since, all the way up to the current 2.0.0.21. As far as I can tell, this only happens in Intrepid. I went back to Hardy for a month or two at the end of last year because of this bug (and a few problems with other things) and it never occured there. I haven't used Jaunty much yet (and doubt I will - still far too unstable, really don't like some of the updated versions of programs, some things I use aren't in the repos any more, and I have a radeon 9600 and *need* the fglrx driver cos the open source one can't do what I need it to do), so I can't say if it happens there yet either. HfX : Yeah, you seem to get the same thing I do. Have you tried my quick fix to see if it gets the main window to appear again? It works every time on my machine. Just make sure you quit/kill TB before removing and re-installing the packages and then reboot before you try to load TB again. Whatever it is preventing TB's window from displaying stays in memory until you reboot and reloading TB before rebooting puts you back at square one. -- [Intrepid] Thunderbird's main window is invisible https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328608 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
