Thunderbird email fails to open this morning, following an update yesterday of 2046 updates in Tumbleweed. Attempting to start Thunderbird from a terminal, this is the error I’m receiving.
zenarcher@linux-d411:~> thunderbird
[calBackendLoader] Using libical backend at /home/zenarcher/.thunderbird/lp9es3r8.default/extensions/{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}/components/libical-manifest
(thunderbird:14367): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory actions/48 of theme breeze has no size field
(thunderbird:14367): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory categories/16 of theme breeze has no size field
(thunderbird:14367): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory categories/22 of theme breeze has no size field
(thunderbird:14367): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory categories/48 of theme breeze has no size field
(thunderbird:14367): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory devices/48 of theme breeze has no size field
(thunderbird:14367): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory of theme oxygen has no size field
Some people on the mailing list seem to be reporting the same problem. One solution they propose is grabbing a copy of Thunderbird straight from Mozilla…seems to work fine then.
Overall, I’m impressed that after such an immense update (2000+ packages), there aren’t MORE people reporting issues. OpenSUSE’s testing policy seems to do the trick and keep most of the garbage from getting to us, and whatever does make it all the way through the system will result in improved testing in the future.
Unfortunately the problem is still there for me. Even when I launch Thunderbird in safe-mode, the problem persists. May be I have to wait some more time for new updates.
Oh and by the way, what is the best way to do regular updates on Tumbleweed? Yast? zypper dup? zypper up? that’s very confusing for someone starting with opensuse, as all of those give different results.
Is there any way to have the process automated with an alert when updates are available, instead of manually checking every time?
Were you able to fix this? I can confirm that downloading from Thunderbird’s website works. Also it seems that Thunderbird starts as long as you don’t have any accounts created, but crashes as soon as you try to create one.
On 06/23/2016 02:36 PM, bobzr6 wrote:
>
> zenarcher;2783360 Wrote:
>> Well, another 65 updates just came through for me…including another
>> one for Thunderbird…which fixed the problem! That was quick!!!
>
> Unfortunately the problem is still there for me. Even when I launch
> Thunderbird in safe-mode, the problem persists. May be I have to wait
> some more time for new updates.
>
> Oh and by the way, what is the best way to do regular updates on
> Tumbleweed? Yast? zypper dup? zypper up? that’s very confusing for
> someone starting with opensuse, as all of those give different results.
>
> Is there any way to have the process automated with an alert when
> updates are available, instead of manually checking every time?
>
>
The preferred and recommended way is to use “zypper dup”. The reason is
that each release of TW is a “NEW” release and therefore needs dup for
all of the house keeping required when you go from one version to a
newer one.
–
Ken
linux since 1994
S.u.S.E./openSUSE since 1996
Interesting that some people seem to be getting another round of updates…as of a few hours ago, still no new updates on my end. Same problem still around. I could download the client from Mozilla directly, but with so many other ways to manage my email, I’m fine to wait another day or two to see what happens.
Hi
A slow mirror in your location, being redirected to different mirrors because of your ISP, also sorts of reasons… I tend to pick a close by mirror rather than using mirrorbrain eg; http://mirrors1.kernel.org/opensuse/tumbleweed/repo/
Malcolm, since I started using openSUSE I never looked into changing mirrors. In a former life as a Mint user, selecting mirrors was super easy with a simple GUI, and I believe the latest mint releases automatically determine which mirrors are fastest and use them, no tinkering necessary. I’ll have to dig into changing mirrors in my TW installation.
Just did another update and TB 45.1.1 working well for me again