Mozilla Thunderbird doesn't restart when Kubuntu session is reloaded

[Manuel McLure]

Binary package hint: mozilla-thunderbird

Kubuntu Dapper Drake (6.06)

Install mozilla-thunderbird on Kubuntu.
Bring up a Thunderbird window in your KDE session, and then save the session (or allow it to be auto-saved when logging off KDE.)
Log in again - no Thunderbird.

Examination shows that although the executable for thunderbird is mozilla-thunderbird, KDE saves "thunderbird" in ~/.kde/share/config/ksmserverrc.
Hand-editing ksmserverrc and switching this to "mozilla-thunderbird" makes Thunderbird start on login (until the next session save.)

[Rich Johnson (nixternal)]

Is this issue still occurring? Have you completed all of the updates to recent? Does this bug appear in Edgy?

[Manuel McLure (manuel-mclure)]

I haven't tested with Edgy, but this is still an issue with the latest updates to Dapper.

The following shows up in the .kde/share/config/session/kwin_* file:

desktop5=2
fsrestore5=0,0,0,0
fullscreen5=0
geometry5=0,0,1600,1174
iconified5=false
keepBelow5=false
maximize5=3
resourceClass5=mozilla-thunderbird-bin
resourceName5=gecko
restore5=0,0,1287,959
sessionId5=
shaded5=false
shortcut5=
skipPager5=false
skipTaskbar5=false
staysOnTop5=false
sticky5=false
userNoBorder5=false
windowRole5=
windowType5=Normal
wmClientMachine5=localhost
wmCommand5=mozilla-thunderbird-bin

and I see the following in .xsession-errors:

...
kio (KLauncher): KLauncher: Got exec_blind('firefox', ...)
kdecore (KLibLoader): The KLibLoader contains the library kcm_nsplugins (0x81c6c60)
kdecore (KLibLoader): The KLibLoader contains the library kcm_khotkeys_init (0x81c0ad0)
kdecore (KLibLoader): The KLibLoader contains the library kcm_keyboard (0x81caf48)
kdecore (KLibLoader): The KLibLoader contains the library kcm_access (0x81db670)
kdecore (KLibLoader): The KLibLoader contains the library kcm_style (0x81ce220)
kdecore (KLibLoader): The KLibLoader contains the library kcm_bell (0x81c6348)
kdecore (KLibLoader): The KLibLoader contains the library kcm_laptop (0x81cb8b0)
kdecore (KLibLoader): The KLibLoader contains the library kcm_keys (0x81ca1a0)
kdecore (KLibLoader): The KLibLoader contains the library kcm_arts (0x81dd098)
kdecore (KLibLoader): The KLibLoader contains the library kcm_energy (0x81c5f70)
kdecore (KLibLoader): The KLibLoader contains the library kcm_input (0x81c1318)
DCOP: unregister 'kcminit'
kdeinit: Got EXEC_NEW 'firefox' from launcher.
Could not load library! Trying exec....
kio (KLauncher): firefox (pid 15820) up and running.
kio (KLauncher): KLauncher: Got exec_blind('thunderbird', ...)
kdeinit: Got EXEC_NEW 'thunderbird' from launcher.
Could not find 'thunderbird' executable.
kdeinit: PID 15822 terminated.
...

I've attached the complete kwin_* file and the complete xsession-errors.

[Andrés Cirugeda (andres-cirugeda)]

The bug also appears in Edgy.

As Manuel in Dapper, I get 'thunderbird' in ~/.kde/share/config/ksmserverrc and after a session restart I can see the same error line in ~/.xsession-errors:

Could not find 'thunderbird' executable.

I played a bit with the problem. If a 'thunderbird' executable is not found, I created one. I added a symlink in /usr/local/bin

ln -s /usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird /usr/local/bin/thunderbird

After another session restart, there was still no thunderbird, but the error in ~/.xsession-errors had changed:

run-mozilla.sh: Cannot execute /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/thunderbird-bin.

So, another symlink to create it

ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/mozilla-thunderbird-bin /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/thunderbird-bin

Now thunderbird is run with every session reload.

Hope this helps.

[RobertBrunhuber (ubuntu-rbrunhuber)]

Thanks for your bugreport. However this bugreport is marked as "needs info" at least for 3 months now but no further information was requested or provided.

If the problem persists please add a comment with updated information.
If the bug is fixed please close it.

[Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf) (hmontoliu)]

Assigned to Mozilla Team

[Joerg Delker (ubuntu-delker)]

I'm suffering from the same problem in Edgy and now as well in Feisty.

If there is any more information needed to fix this bug, please request it.

[Someone (s4910321931-deactivatedaccount)]

I have compiled thundebird 2.0 source package from gutsy on edgy and now thunderbird properly shows up on login.

[Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount)]

This is fixed in gutsy, where thunderbird is called as thunderbird, not as mozilla-thunderbird.