when I reduce thunderbird , to work on something else , and don’t remember I had open it, when I click on tb’s icon I get this :
Thunderbird is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Thunderbird process, or restart your system.
but I can’t since I have no icon for TB anywhere!!??
Please, please, please, at least tell what version of opeSUSE you use. Which desktop is also something we can not guess.
On 08/26/2012 12:36 AM, hcvv wrote:
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> Please, please, please, at least tell what version of opeSUSE you use.
> Which desktop is also something we can not guess.
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Run the CLI command: ps aux | grep thunder
That will show the PID of the Thunderbird process (e.g. 123456)
Then run the CLI command to kill the process: kill 123456
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Regards
swerdna
opensuse 12.1 gnome 3.2.1
but I prefer swerdna’s gentle answer …which I will try and reply when done …
not using opensuse for long and not familiar , I’m afraid I can’t do what you said since I do not understand :
Run the CLI command: ps aux | grep thunder
That will show the PID of the Thunderbird process (e.g. 123456)
Then run the CLI command to kill the process: kill 123456
now on top of it I also get this kind of message :
Un script sur cette page est peut-être occupé ou ne répond plus. Vous pouvez arrêter le script maintenant ou attendre pour voir si le script se terminera.
Script : chrome://global/content/bindings/popup.xml:538
it keeps poping up but with different syntaxes and popup.xml number ???
how can I get rid of this or is it an error which needs to be repaired and if , how can I repair it ?
many thanks for helping me …
swerdna meant to type the command: ps aux | grep thunder in a terminal window
I’m not familiar with gnome but iirc you should have a program called Terminal on Gnome’s menu, possibly listed under a section called something like System, I’m sure someone who uses gnome can tell you exactly where to find it
The (first) issue you mentioned, the thunderbird one, is quite a common one with thunderbird and firefox when the program can’t find your user profile, you can create a new profile by running the command: thunderbird --ProfileManager
This opens a screen that allows you to create a new profile using either a clean, fresh profile or point your new profile to an existing profile folder (for firefox it’s firefox --profilemanager, why mozilla used capitals for thunderbird and not for firefox I’ve no idea)
Another reason it can happen is the lock file not getting deleted when you close thunderbird, mostly I’ve seen this happen when using a profile stored on an nfs share and accessed by multiple computers
To check for this you need to look if there are files called ‘lock’ and/or ‘.parentlock’ (that’s dot parentlock) under your existing thunderbird profile folder and the .mozilla folder (again, dot mozilla) in your /home/username directory, do this when thunderbird is NOT running, if you find a lock and/or .parentlock file when thunderbird isn’t running, delete it/them and then try running thunderbird
Again, I don’t know where these files and folders are stored in gnome so I can’t tell you exactgly where to look for them
with all your different answers I finally could find the pid nb for TB and kill it . but I don’t understand why it continues to happen from time to time , since I finally also located a ‘.parentlock’ which I deleted .
thanks for the help . I also tried “grep thunder” but that didn’t work , I got it by making “ps -x”
I also deleted the profile " default" and created my profile with my user’s name.
now I have another query to submit : I created a mail adress on mail.com : <my name>@linuxmail.org which I also created in thunderbird and I sometime receive the same mail twice. I also experience this with a livemail adress also created under TB.
I modified the “mail.server.default.dup_action” value to 1 but when looking for the line to modify I saw that there were lines with “default” and lines with “my user’s profile’s name” . is this correct ?
until then…
You better do not hide a new question at the end of an old, already solved question. You should make sure that people see your problem/question by putting it in the correct forum (and I guess, this is application), and a telling title. What you do now is bad advertising of your problem and that will not help you getting the maximum amount of attendance.
On 2012-09-04 11:16, libellul wrote:
> thanks for the help . I also tried “grep thunder” but that didn’t work
> , I got it by making “ps -x”
You are not typing the full command. It is:
ps aux | grep thunder
All in one line, exactly as typed there.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))