error when opening preferences

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Binary package hint: thunderbird

When I open preferences I get the following error

XML Parsing Error: syntax error
Location: chrome://messenger/content/preferences/preferences.xul
Line Number 1, Column 1:t != gDefaultPort.value))

I recent upgraded to Ibex Ibin from Hardy Heron and am running..

WTF.. just clicking on Help -> About Mozilla Thunderbird got me this error

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: chrome://messenger/content/aboutDialog.xul
Line Number 1, Column 6: </hbox>
-----^

I restarted thunderbird and all is well.. It stated that it was adding the "Hebrew" addon. I think perhaps it was becuase there was an upgrade and the app just needed a reload. I think you should incorporate at least a reminder for restarting thunderbird, or sig term it and restart it yourselves after an upgrade. Another thing you can do is send a HUP signal and have it behave like apache where it seemlessly reloads the config and continues to operate.. Then agian the apache model is far different than this.

Thanks,
Carl.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: mozilla-thunderbird None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-thunderbird.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686

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