Author: Peter Salisbury Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Thunderbird Crashes on Ubuntu Hardy and won't
restart
2008/10/1 Jack Knight <jack.knight@???>: > It seems to have started happening after the latest package updates. The
> machine has been in use since constantly, and thunderbird was kept
> running. However, I came back to the machine this morning and found
> T_Bird gone. Tried restarting, get the gnome panel "Starting
> Thunderbird" button, which then disappears. Tried starting from command
> line, which just seemingly hangs. Running under strace spews a lot of
> messages about unable to allocate memory, but there is 3Gb in this box
> and it's only lightly loaded at the moment.
>
> I've managed to pick up my email by creating a new profile, but there's
> lots of rules, extensions and calendar in my old profile which I'd
> rather not re-create longhand. Any ideas anyone?
>
> Thanks,
>
> jfk
>
I had a similar problem with Firefox a while ago and what I did was to
copy files from the old profile into the new one till it stopped
working then remove what I did last. I think it was an rdf or cache
file in my case, certainly nothing with any of my data in it.
