Thunderbird fails to load after installing theme

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Hi,

I’m using opensuse 11.4. I recently installed a theme on thunderbird but now it fails to start. Doing the command ‘top’ doesn’t even show it on the running processes.

I don’t have root access to this machine. I also tried to launch it in safe mode using /path/to/thunderbird/thunderbird -safe-mode but that doesn’t work either.

Is there anything else I can do?

Thanks.

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lostidentity wrote:
> I don’t have root access to this machine. I also tried to launch it in
> safe mode using /path/to/thunderbird/thunderbird -safe-mode but that
> doesn’t work either.

Did it not print anything to the terminal when it failed?

> Is there anything else I can do?

https://wiki.mozilla.org/MailNews:Logging

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What theme?

You could try a new profile. I use the stand alone profile manager myself.

Profile Manager - MozillaZine Knowledge Base

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Thanks for the replies.

No it doesn’t print anything when I enter thunderbird. The theme was called silvermel.

When I type thunderbird -profilemanager the profile manager does come up and I create a new profile. It also gives the following error

shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory

But then when I click Start thunderbird it doesn’t do anything.

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On 2011-11-01 15:36, lostidentity wrote:

> But then when I click Start thunderbird it doesn’t do anything.
>
>
Rename the directory .thunderbird/ to something else and try.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

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Actually now when I type thunderbird -profilemanager it doesn’t do anything.

I’ve also renamed .thunderbird to something else, still nothing. But it does create the directory .thunderbird with another directory called ‘Crash Reports’ that has the file InstallTime2011092000, but the file just has a line of numbers.

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On 2011-11-01 16:36, lostidentity wrote:

> I’ve also renamed .thunderbird to something else, still nothing. But it
> does create the directory .thunderbird with another directory called
> ‘Crash Reports’ that has the file InstallTime2011092000, but the file
> just has a line of numbers.

Then it is a problem for your admin.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)