Menu does not appear in Application Menu

[Carlos Moffat]

Binary package hint: thunderbird

Hi,

I have thunderbird-globalmenu installed, but thunderbird's menu does not show up in the Indicator Applet Application menu, unlike Firefox and almost all other gnome applications.

Cheers.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: thunderbird 3.1.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.39-02063901-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jun 7 09:40:11 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20110211.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-06-01 (5 days ago)

[Carlos Moffat (carlos-eldiabloenlosdetalles)]

I should add that thunderbird-globalmenu is not listed as an addon either, but I'm not sure if it should be.

[David R. Hedges (p14nd4)]

I just upgraded a laptop from maverick to natty, and saw this same problem, too (also didn't appear as a listed add-on). I was able to track down the issue to /usr/lib/thunderbird-3.1.10 having an empty directory 'extensions' instead of a symlink to ../thunderbird-addons/extensions.

I resolved the issue with:
$ cd /usr/lib/thunderbird-3.1.10/
$ sudo rmdir extensions/ ; sudo ln -s ../thunderbird-addons/extensions/ ./

[Carlos Moffat (carlos-eldiabloenlosdetalles)]

I've now removed/reinstalled TB, and the bug is gone.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Further to above comments and with nothing else for over 7 years, closing as being fixed.