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Bug 113795 - mozilla-thunderbird-1.5: can no longer share e-mail between Gentoo and Windows
Summary: mozilla-thunderbird-1.5: can no longer share e-mail between Gentoo and Windows
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High blocker (vote)
Assignee: Mozilla Gentoo Team
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Reported: 2005-11-28 07:33 UTC by Simonas Leleiva
Modified: 2005-11-28 08:41 UTC (History)
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Description Simonas Leleiva 2005-11-28 07:33:52 UTC
Thunderbird 1.0.7 was on Gentoo, Thunderbird 1.5 (up to most recent) is on
Windows. Profile is residing on FAT32, is multi-platformly shared.
As soon as I upgraded my Gentoo's Thunderbird to 1.5 (20051116), profile stopped
working (told that it is being used) on Gentoo side, but keeps working fine in
Winds.
Where can the problem be?

BTW if this'd help: just before the dialog 'Thunderbird is already running, but
not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing
Thunderbird process, or restart your system' pops up, a .profilelock appears in
.thunderbird/(->link to vfat dir)/<myprofile> and after closing that box, the
lock-file remains. Makes no difference, if I delete it or not.

gentoo$ cat ~/.thunderbird/profiles.ini
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=0

[Profile0]
Name=sledge
IsRelative=1
Path=1yacu16b.sledge

[Profile1]
Name=sledge.rescue
IsRelative=1
Path=mutmiv8h.sledge.rescue
Default=1


$ ls -l .thunderbird
total 4
lrwxrwxrwx  1 sledge users   71 2005-10-09 18:36 1yacu16b.sledge ->
/mnt/home/sledge/Application Data/Thunderbird/Profiles/t384eupv.default
-rw-r--r--  1 sledge users  335 2005-10-09 18:34 appreg
lrwxrwxrwx  1 sledge users   77 2005-11-17 09:49 mutmiv8h.sledge.rescue ->
/mnt/home/sledge/Application Data/Thunderbird/Profiles/mutmiv8h.sledge.rescue
-rw-r--r--  1 sledge users    0 2005-11-17 13:34 out
-rw-r--r--  1 sledge users  174 2005-11-17 13:09 profiles.ini


Once found out about the locked profile, created new profile under Gentoo
(mutmiv8h.sledge.rescue). It worked. Right after I simply moved and symlinked it
to vfat, this 'rescue' :) one stopped working, too :/ Didn't go on even with
copying all mail stuff.

Windows ~/Application Data/Thunderbird/profiles.ini :

[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1

[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=Profiles/t384eupv.default

This was downpasted from http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2912057.html


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install >=mozilla-thunderbird-1.5
2. Symlink to profile that physically resides in vfat (FAT32) partition
3. Launch Thunderbird..
Comment 1 Jory A. Pratt 2005-11-28 07:48:18 UTC
File bug upstream if you feel it is a bug, but the only reason that could
prevent the sharing is the filesystem and/or the versions do not match.
Comment 2 Simonas Leleiva 2005-11-28 08:18:03 UTC
Everything was working flawlessly until this point. Guys in forums.gentoo.org
had reversed problems also after upgrading versions.

Up to v1.5 crossfs profiles worked just fine, thus it is not a FS bug.
I'm having a 1.5-1.5 beta incompatibility across platforms. Until this point,
all thunderbird profiles were backwards compatible. And in this case, we have a
backwards compatibility mismatch 
Comment 3 Simonas Leleiva 2005-11-28 08:18:03 UTC
Everything was working flawlessly until this point. Guys in forums.gentoo.org
had reversed problems also after upgrading versions.

Up to v1.5 crossfs profiles worked just fine, thus it is not a FS bug.
I'm having a 1.5-1.5 beta incompatibility across platforms. Until this point,
all thunderbird profiles were backwards compatible. And in this case, we have a
backwards compatibility mismatch  a new version under unix (1.5) does not
support older windows version (1.5 Beta 1).
It is a bug of cross-platformed mozilla-thunderbird, which apparently does not
reassure cross-compatibility. I'm still filing it as a bug, as there is (should
be, hopefully) a solution to it.
Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-11-28 08:31:06 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> backwards compatibility mismatch 
Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-11-28 08:31:06 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> backwards compatibility mismatch  a new version under unix (1.5) does not
> support older windows version (1.5 Beta 1).
> It is a bug of cross-platformed mozilla-thunderbird, which apparently does not
> reassure cross-compatibility. I'm still filing it as a bug, as there is (should
> be, hopefully) a solution to it.

Nothing Gentoo should solve. File a bug UPSTREAM - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
Comment 6 Simonas Leleiva 2005-11-28 08:41:37 UTC
But if this bug (imagine that) appears only with Gentoo? As there are no
complaints in Wins.
However, thanks for an UPSTREAM link, will see there.

Thanks again.