I’m having some problems I can’t seem to solve via the forums or google.
The big one is getting my Thunderbird working and I really need some
input. I’ve successfully set up a working application of Thunderbird in
Ubuntu, Kubuntu, MEPHIS and Mandriva over the last few weeks so I’m
pretty confident the problem is not within my Thunderbird itself.
When I launch the application I get the GUI and I can access the file
menus but the cursor remains in the “thinking” configuration and I can
not get new mail nor can I access the emails stored in my local
folders… I do dual-boot with that other OS (XP) and Thunderbird still
works fine for me in that one. I can see the folder names in the
folders pane but can not see any emails within those folders. I’ve
tried reconfiguring and even uninstalling Thunderbird as well as turning
off the firewall program all to no avail. I should also mention that if
I launch Thunderbird in the terminal I get no errors or other messages,
the GUI just pops up and it tries unsuccessfully to fully load.
I’m on openSUSE 11.1 running the KDE 4.1.3 desktop.
Well that worked…sort of. At least it helped verify the where the
problem is. I rebuilt the server connections first and everything
loaded in fine and I could check for new mail. However once I change
the local folders setting to the file on my mounted drive, Thunderbird
again becomes non-functional. I’m not sure why as this setup has worked
fine on my testing of other distro’s.
Just out of curiosity could it have anything to do with where I mounted
my shared partitions? I’ve mounted them at /home/<me> instead of /mnt
where I normally do just because they seem easier to get too. I
wouldn’t think that would matter but it’s the only thing I’ve changed
between this and other distro’s where this has worked.
Sorry, should have been more clear. This is partition on a HDD with
data that is shared between XP and Linux. It is in NTFS format and I
can access it fine outside of Thunderbird.
The easy solution is probably to try a fresh install but for the sake
of learning I’d really like to solve the problem.
***************** this is the partition *******************
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2500YS-01SHB1_WD-WCANY2932678-part2
/home/dad/LNXWINSHARE ntfs-3g
users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
imatechguy;1917266 Wrote:
> Awesome! Worked like a champ, thank you very much.
>
> I used the install disk to set up the mount points during install so
> I’m not sure what I might have done wrong but I’m very grateful for the
> help.
>
> Thanks again!