Hi folks! Seem to have gotten myself messed up again. I thought this might be an apt problem, but now it's looking like more of an RPM issue. Background: I've been using Thunderbird for my primary mail client for awhile now. I did not use apt to install (downloaded and installed as user to ~/thunderbird from tar). A few days ago, I updated some other packages through apt and Thunderbird began having problems loading. Specifically, thunderbird-bin would start running (in KDE) for a few seconds, then just die (no panel item, no UI). A few thunderbird-bin processes continued to run in the background, however. I attempted to reinstall from the tarball--no changes. I then checked to see if there was a package available from apt, and indeed there was. I proceeded to install via apt--without removing the old package. Thunderbird appeared to install, but it never actually finished. Eventually I discovered that the rebuild-databases process never completed. I killed this process (after nothing had happened for several hours). Later on, I found that rebuild-databases was a Thunderbird process, not from either apt or rpm. I tried removing the old installation (the Thunderbird release notes say to simply delete the ~/thunderbird folder), and running apt again. No change--still hanging. Further research indicates that rebuild-databases spawns three instances of thunderbird-bin. Is it trying to find the mail profile? Again after several hours of waiting, I killed the thunderbird-bin processes. In the log below, it appears (well, that's my guess anyway) that thunderbird-bin was trying to register itself, but killing the process sent that to /dev/null. Oh, and this is a SuSE 9.0 system, KDE 3.1.4. Any thoughts on getting Thunderbird running properly are much appreciated. Mike Apt log: linux:/home/mikemc # apt --no-checksig --no-post install MozillaThunderbird Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: MozillaThunderbird 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 removed and 339 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/9627kB of archives. After unpacking 28.3MB of additional disk space will be used. Committing changes... Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:MozillaThunderbird ########################################### [100%] /opt/MozillaThunderbird/bin/rebuild-databases.sh: line 79: 6764 Terminated $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/thunderbird-bin -register >/dev/null 2>/dev/null Done. -- Mike McCallister ProTek Writing Services workingwriter@prodigy.net "Translation from the Geek a specialty" Phone: (414) 545-4489 Fax: (248) 282-0532