Thunderbird has become unusable.

Skippy204 · Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 3:14 pm Post subject: Thunderbird has become unusable.

Some would say it always has been. *ha*

But seriously. Updated to 115.6 and it broke. Downgraded to previous version, still broke. Created a new user, set up thunderbird there and ran it. Broke as well.

Here is what's broke:
Tabs will not restore.
When I send mail the mail will send, but not save to my server (all accounts are IMAP).
Will only receive mail at start up. After that no new mail is displayed.

I'll throw out some information below which may or may not tell you anything. At this point I'm guessing hence the forum post.

Thank you very much.

Some error messages from the console:

pstickar · n00b Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 55 Location: Germany

Hello,

I'm also seeing problems. My account is POP and it appears to work normal. But tabs will not restore, and the calendar is unavailable. In my case, the error messages at the console are different:

fedeliallalinea · Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 4:51 pm Post subject:

szatox · Advocate Joined: 27 Aug 2013 Posts: 3138

I ditched TB a long long time ago because it was not usable, but:

DavidF · Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 5:51 pm Post subject:

I see the update today from 115.5 to 115.6 is requiring me to unmask /dev-libs/icu. Is it possible that icu is what is causing the problem? I am going to wait to update.

Skippy204 · Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 9:53 pm Post subject:

Skippy204 · Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 9:56 pm Post subject:

Skippy204 · Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 9:58 pm Post subject:

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DavidF · Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2023 3:22 pm Post subject:

<3 · Veteran Joined: 21 Oct 2004 Posts: 1081

Thunderbird has been pretty unstable for me too, the UI is practically unresponsive as soon as I open it and the only way to close thunderbird is to kill the process. I have not had any issues with it till recently. I am running mail-client/thunderbird-115.6.0

Skippy204 · Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2024 9:04 pm Post subject:

John R. Graham · Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2024 3:15 pm Post subject:

This is a little bit strange. Thunderbird is reliable and responsive for me and specifically doesn't exhibit the symptoms reported on this thread:

Tabs restore just fine.
Access to POP, SMTP, and IMAP servers is reliable and fast.
Not seeing issues with the calendar (although I'm only a light user of that).
Creating folders is instantaneous.

My USE flags and CFLAGS are also similar to what Skippy204 is using:

Fitzcarraldo · Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2024 5:28 pm Post subject:

Like John R. Graham, I have no problem at all with Thunderbird 115.6.0. Here is the build information in my stable Gentoo Linux installation:

depontius · Advocate Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 3509

I noticed a few weeks back after an update that I lost my tabs as well. I also normally leave "Quick Filter" active, and that had gone away, too. I set Quick Filter so long ago that I forgot that there's a button for it on the right near the top. Press that and it's back. My tabs are back as well, just as they were when they disappeared. I'm not sure if the Quick Filter button jogged something or if it was something else. But I'm back to normally functional, running 115.6.0.
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<3 · Veteran Joined: 21 Oct 2004 Posts: 1081

wow, I don't know why but now firefox is totally unresponsive as well. I am not sure if both issues are related but I wouldn't be surprised.

<3 · Veteran Joined: 21 Oct 2004 Posts: 1081

Has anyone progressed on this issue. Both Firefox and Thunderbird have been totally unusable for a few weeks now.

depontius · Advocate Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 3509

My firefox and thunderbird are both perfectly usable. In fact I'm using the former for this post. Incidentally, I'm only using X11 at the moment. I've also installed Wayland stuff, getting ready to dip my toes in the water with it. But this is my normal Xorg session. Adding the USE flags for Wayland stuff was a non-event as far as X11 functionality is concerned.

Goverp · Advocate Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 2009

firefox 121.0 is fine here, both wayland and X. I don't use thunderbird.
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saellaven · l33t Joined: 23 Jul 2006 Posts: 646

No issues with thunderbird across multiple systems here. I keep firefox around as a backup browser, but never use it. No wayland.

papu · Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:55 pm Post subject:

tld · Veteran Joined: 09 Dec 2003 Posts: 1816

I've actually had one ongoing issue with Thunderbird on occasion, though it's been happening for quite some time...not sure what version it may have started with:

I have my work email and my personal email setup in TB using IMAP. My personal email is on my own web site hosted by a hosting service (using Plesk).

With my personal account ONLY (the work one is fine), I'll occasionally suddenly get a bunch of new emails in my inbox that may have arrived as much as a day earlier. Based on the dates in those emails, they clearly got to my mail server when they should have, so no question it's TB just not picking them up in time. Drives me nuts.

Tom

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pyeatt · n00b Joined: 10 May 2023 Posts: 2

I did a world rebuild last night, and thunderbird 115.6.0 is unresponsive. Seems to hang while creating the initial window.

I ran it under gdb and halted it. It seems to be stuck in a read() system call. Assuming that it is trying to read config from .thunderbird.
I renamed .thunderbird to .thunderbird.orig and restarted thunderbird.

It came up with no problems, but of course now I have to set up all my accounts again.

I deleted the new .thunderbird and installed thunderbird-bin. It worked just fine. I wonder what use flags they used.
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