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..
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.
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
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.
(In reply to comment #2) > backwards compatibility mismatch
(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/
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.