shows a progress bar waiting forever

[Teo]

Binary package hint: thunderbird

In Mozilla Thunderbird, in the status bar at the bottom of the window, on the right side, there is a progress bar that usually shows the progress when you are downloading messages, sending a message, etc. When thunderbird is connecting to the server or waiting for something, it shows a "waiting" animation (bar of fixed size moving from left to right cyclically). When no operation is in progress, this bar should stay idle and empty.

Since I added an IMAP account, this bar ALWAYS shows a never ending "waiting" animation forever and ever even when the program isn't doing anything. My IMAP account works correctly and downloads messages when there are messages to download. It is only the animation that never stops. I attach a screenshot. Note that on the left part of the status bar there is no message saying "waiting for this"/"doing that", which is correct since thunderbird is not doing anything nor waiting for anything.

Before I added the IMAP account, this never happened; the status bar used to work fine and only used to show the animation or progress bar when it was appropriate.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: thunderbird 3.1.7+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-28.55-generic 2.6.32.27+drm33.12
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-28-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Feb 10 13:29:39 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this a long time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time.

Do you still see a problem related to the one that was reported using currently supported versions of Thunderbird and Ubuntu? Please let us know if you do otherwise this report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

Thank you for helping make Ubuntu better.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for thunderbird (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]