[Karmic] Lost Lightning calendars when upgrading from 9.04 to 9.10

[bersyl91]

Binary package hint: lightning-extension

After upgrading from Jaunty to Karmic, all my calendar definitions are lost, as well as my todo-list.

All my calendars were remote ones.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Nov 6 15:16:21 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: mozilla-thunderbird (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[bersyl91 (choppy-free)]

I've explored my ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/XXXXXXXX.default directory and found the file storage.sdb.
When I browse it with sqlite-browser, all my definitions are there...

[Willem Verstraeten (willem-verstraeten)]

I've also experienced this. My calendars were all local calendars.

[Willem Verstraeten (willem-verstraeten)]

The storage.db file seems to be okay for me as well

[Willem Verstraeten (willem-verstraeten)]

Note that I installed the lightning extension from the mozilla website, not from the apt-get repository. This version needs the libstdc++5 library, which is no longer available for 9.10. Installing the version from the apt-get repository solves the problem.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Willem: Your problem is related to upstream, i need to know what version you are using and if you found an upstream bug on this issue.

Bersy: Can you please post the links to the remote calendars you are using? can you please post the output of the following command:
apt-cache policy lightning-extension thunderbird

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

I have been using the same profile for sunbird and lightnining since jaunty, upgrading to newer releases i kept my remote and local calendars i am now on Lucid and another partition with Karmic ad i am still unable to reproduce this using our 0.9 package.

[simoh (simonmalzer)]

Confirmation - same issue as Willem and same solution. Local calendar; upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10, lightning originally installed from the Mozilla website.
You have to uninstall Lightning from within Thunderbird Addons then install from the repositories (using Synaptic if you want).

[Husain A (hsmak)]

@simon I confirm you solution.
Before upgrading from 9.04 to 9.10 i was using downloaded Thunderbird from Mozilla website, i.e was not installed from Ubuntu repositories. After upgrading to 9.10 i found that Thunderbird wasn't working at all. I just removed it and reinstalled it from Ubuntu repository "apt-get". I made a backup of my last Thunderbird profile and replaced it with the new profile "~/.mozilla-thunderbird/". Now here was the problem, the backed up profile already contained the previously installed extensions which were downloaded from Mozilla website.
So as @simon said
"You have to uninstall Lightning from within Thunderbird Addons then install from the repositories (using Synaptic if you want)."

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Closing since everyone so far is using upstream package and we do not support upstream packages.
As i recall you need libstdc++5 when running upstream ours using libstdc++6