Thunderbird Ligthning gone after update

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Hi - after updating MozillaThunderbird from the Update- Repo to Version 68.4.1 of 2020-01-10 again the Calendar has gone.

For me, this is due to delivering some Value in the Configuration for “extensions.installedDistroAddon.{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}” with the new patch(?)
Here is how to get it to work again: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/calendar-updates-issues-thunderbird#w_lightning-disappears-after-a-thunderbird-update-release-and-beta-versions

If this happens to all other users too: This is quite Complicated for some newbies - and i already had to do it many times (when Updating the Version).

Does anyone else have also the same behaviour?

If yes: PLEASE any Maintainer of this Package: The Calendar is not an Addon any more (since years), it is included in Thunderbird. Can you please check to change the Config-Value in the Future to not have any value, so the Calendar works after update?

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I’ve never experienced that problem. (Using Thunderbird from the “Mozilla” repository https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_Leap_15.1/ )

If yes: PLEASE any Maintainer of this Package: The Calendar is not an Addon any more (since years), it is included in Thunderbird. Can you please check to change the Config-Value in the Future to not have any value, so the Calendar works after update?

If you feel this is a valid bug then raise an issue on the openSUSE bugzilla: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org (same login credentials as the forum).

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Try this (it’s worked for me before)

Lightning disappears after a Thunderbird update (release and beta versions)

This may happen if the update of the add-on is stuck. Don’t worry about your calendar data, it is left untouched and will be available again if you follow these steps to restore Lightning:

  1. Go to the Advanced section of Thunderbird Preferences and click on Config Editor…
  2. Copy or start typing extensions.installedDistroAddon.{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103} into the search box
  3. When extensions.installedDistroAddon… is listed in the preferences list, right-click on it and choose Reset from the context menu - the preference now isn’t bold anymore and its value is empty
  4. Close the editor, leave the Thunderbird options, open Thunderbird’s add-ons manager and switch to the list of installed extensions
  5. If Lightning is listed there, click on Remove to the right of the list item
  6. Restart Thunderbird

From https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/calendar-updates-issues-thunderbird