Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: mozilla-thunderbird
Setup
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you have a profile referring to a non existing directory (for example if your
~/.mozilla-thunderbird/profiles.ini is as follows:
------------------------------8<-------------------------------
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=3yt5q2x7.default
Default=1
[Profile1]
Name=foobar
IsRelative=1
Path=35l08sbb.nosuchdir
------------------------------8<-------------------------------
And ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/35l08sbb.nosuchdir does not exist
Unexpected behavior 1
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If you start thunderbird with:
$ thunderbird -P foobar
you will get the following warning message window:
>>Thunderbird is already running,but is not responding. To open a new
>>window,you must first
>> close the existing Thunderbird process,or restart your system.
>> OK
Unexpected behavior 2
==============
If you start thunderbird with:
$ thunderbird -ProfileManager
and explicitely ask for profile "foobar"
You will get the following warning message window:
>> Thunderbird cannot use the profile "foobar" because it is in use.
>> To continue,close the running instance of Thunderbird or choose a
>> different profile.
>> OK
Suggestion
=======
It would be better to say that the directory does not exist !!
This is particularly frustrating, if you happen to have a profile whose
directory ends with the space. No idea how the guy who reported the problem to
me produced a directory ending with a space but I observed it.
** Affects: mozilla-thunderbird (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: profilemanager
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non intuitive messages with broken profiles
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/251630
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