"Thunderbird is already running" but this is not shown as a process by the system. Restart does not help.

[Bill George]

running 9:04 as wubi
Thunderbird has been running for a few days without problems
Today I only get the error message "Thunderbird is already running but is not responding"
Restart does not help.
can't see the programme in the process manager.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-system-monitor
Package: gnome-system-monitor 2.26.0.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-system-monitor
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Kurt Wall (kwall)]

Please try restarting Thunderbird after executing the following commands:

{{{
cd $HOME
find .thunderbird -name \*lock\*
}}}

[Kurt Wall (kwall)]

Rather, the commands should be:

cd $HOME
find .thunderbird -name \*lock\*

[Bill George (billgeorge)]

Kurt Wall wrote:
> Rather, the commands should be:
>
> cd $HOME
> find .thunderbird -name \*lock\*
>
>
Thanks, after yet another restart I was able to read your mail! I'll try
it, as I am fairly sure it will happen again ... I had this problem once
before with the previous version of Ubuntu and eventually tried
Evolution (which i don't feel comfortable with.)
I compare your rapid response to a request for help from Microsoft: they
send you a link to the pages you have already searched through and tell
you it must be your machine. ...

Thanks again, I'll get back to you when I've tried out the commands…

regards

Bill George

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

On 05/24/2009 04:22 AM, Bill George wrote:
> Kurt Wall wrote:
>> Rather, the commands should be:
>>
>> cd $HOME
>> find .thunderbird -name \*lock\*
>>
>>
> Thanks, after yet another restart I was able to read your mail! I'll try
> it, as I am fairly sure it will happen again ... I had this problem once
> before with the previous version of Ubuntu and eventually tried
> Evolution (which i don't feel comfortable with.)
> I compare your rapid response to a request for help from Microsoft: they
> send you a link to the pages you have already searched through and tell
> you it must be your machine. ...
>
> Thanks again, I'll get back to you when I've tried out the commands…
>
> regards
>
> Bill George
>
More than likely this happened either because you double clicked the
launcher, or you closed tbird and restarted it too fast. Please make
sure ps aux | grep thunderbird-bin only shows the grep command, if it
shows something other than grep you need to stop that process. this
should only happen when it is running or restarted too fast.

--
Sincerely Yours,
    John Vivirito

https://launchpad.net/~gnomefreak
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[Bill George (billgeorge)]

John Vivirito wrote:
> On 05/24/2009 04:22 AM, Bill George wrote:
>
>> Kurt Wall wrote:
>>
>>> Rather, the commands should be:
>>>
>>> cd $HOME
>>> find .thunderbird -name \*lock\*
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks, after yet another restart I was able to read your mail! I'll try
>> it, as I am fairly sure it will happen again ... I had this problem once
>> before with the previous version of Ubuntu and eventually tried
>> Evolution (which i don't feel comfortable with.)
>> I compare your rapid response to a request for help from Microsoft: they
>> send you a link to the pages you have already searched through and tell
>> you it must be your machine. ...
>>
>> Thanks again, I'll get back to you when I've tried out the commands…
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Bill George
>>
>>
> More than likely this happened either because you double clicked the
> launcher, or you closed tbird and restarted it too fast.
While I do sometimes forget myself and click too wildly, the problem is
annoying enough for me to pay close attention when trying to read my
mails. And there was no sign of Thunderbird running among the active
programmes.
As the problem also arose at the beginning of sessions, it couldn't be a
question of closing and restarting too soon.
At the moment it seems to be working, so I'll wait and see. Tahnks
anyway for your time.

Bill George
> Please make
> sure ps aux | grep thunderbird-bin only shows the grep command, if it
> shows something other than grep you need to stop that process. this
> should only happen when it is running or restarted too fast.
>
>

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Please reopen if it happens again, thunderbird by default does not start on startup you have to either set it to start on session startup or you have to start it yourself.