On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 8:45 PM Robert McBroom via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > On one of my f39 systems Thundebird fails to start claiming that it is > already running. "ksyguard" from root doesn't show anything I can > recognize as having to do with Thunderbird. Rebooting does not get it to > work. Looked at the ".thunderbird" file in the user directory and there > are lots of entries there to make sense about. I can't close an instance > that I can't find. The pop up window suggests using a different profile > but I don't see any way to select a profile. > > Tried erasing Thunderbird and installing it again but the problem remains.
Did you delete the lock file and then try a restart? If the lock file is recreated, then Thunderbird is starting. An add-on may be causing the trouble. Can you strace startup and find the offending lock file? Or maybe it's as easy as `find ~/.thunderbird -name lock`. Also see posts like <https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/thunderbird-ha-s-a-stale-lock-file-how-to-delete-196760/>. Jeff -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
